(a) the number of schemes and programmes of Communications and Information Technology are
being run throughout the country, State-wise;
(b) whether the State of Uttar Pradesh is not receiving due attention and its due share;
(c) if so, the details thereof; and
(d) the, steps taken / being taken to bring it at par with other States?
MINISTER OF STATE FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY(SHRI SACHIN PILOT)
(a) to (d): As per Annual Plan of Department of Information Technology (DIT) for the year
2010-2011, DIT has 24 Plan Schemes. These are Central Sector Schemes. Depending on the overall
objective of the Plan Scheme, the Scheme is implemented across various States / LITs. The list
of Plan Schemes is enclosed as Annexure. The DIT also has various Schemes under National
e-Governance Plan (NeGP). These include State Wide Area Network (SWAN), State Data Centre (SDC), Common Service Centres (CSC), Capacity Building (CB) and e-Districts. All the Schemes
under the NeGP are applicable for the rural and remote areas of the States including that of
the State of Uttar Pradesh. The status is as under:-
SWAN: Uttar Pradesh SWAN Project was approved by the Empowered Committee in March, 2005 with
approved DIT`s share of Rs.168.72 crores. The DIT share constitutes of - One-time Consultancy
charges, Capital Expenditure including Hardware and Network Software, cost of third party
auditing and service level monitoring and operational expenses for 5 years. As on date
Rs.124.00 crores have been sanctioned for release.
SDC: The proposal on setting up of SDC in Uttar Pradesh was approved by DIT with a total outlay
of Rs.55.33 crores over a period of five years (DIT Rs.l8.41 crores and Additional Central
Assistance (ACA): Rs.36.92 crores). DIT has released Rs.4.20 crores of DIT share and Rs.7.04
crores of ACA share to UPDESCO, the State Implementing agency for SDC till date.
CSC: The CSC scheme in Uttar Pradesh envisages setting up of a total of 17909 CSCs at a total
sanctioned cost of Rs. 284.02 crores. As on 30th June, 2010, a total of 7047 CSCs have been
rolled out.
Capacity Building: Under the Capacity Building Scheme Rs. 194.1 Lakhs as DIT`s Share and
Rs. 125.6 Lakhs of State Government of Uttar Pradesh share as Additional Central Assistance (ACA) Component of Total Rs. 319.7 lakhs.
E-District: E-district pilot project for six districts of Uttar Pradesh was approved in March,
2006 at a total outlay of Rs.1891.84 Lakh. The pilot project has gone live with 22 services in
6 districts of Uttar Pradesh. The districts are Sitapur, Sultanpur, Gorakhpur, Raebareilly,
Gautam Budhnagar and Ghaziabad.
The Department of Telecommunications has various Schemes undertaken by USO fund for providing
access to telec run facilities in rural and remote areas of the country. These include subsidy
support for operation and maintenance of e sting VPTs, provision of new Village Public
Telephones (VPTs) in uncovered villages, provision of Rural Community Phones (RCPs) in
villages with population more than 2000 and not having not having PCO facility, replacement
of VPTs working on Multi Access Radio Relay (MARR) provision of Rural Direct Exchange Lines
to individuals (RDELs), setting up of shared towers and provision of mobile services through
the same in villages or cluster of villages having population 2000 or more and not having
mobile coverage under the Phase I of the Shared Mobile Infrastructure Scheme, provision of
wire line broadband connectivity, schemes for augmentation of OFC Network between the blocks`
HQ and Districts` HQ and provision of solar mobile charging facility in 5000 villages of the
country. AH the schemes undertaken by USO Fund are applicable for the rural and remote areas
of all the States including the State of Uttar Pradesh.
The targets and achievements in respect of the schemes undertaken by USO Fund in the rural and
remote areas of Uttar Pradesh are as under:
S.No. Name of the scheme Target Achievement
1. Provision of VPTs (including VPTs 97942 inhabited 97752 under Bharat Nirman and New VPT revenue villages Agreement)
2. Replacement of MARR VPTs 37296 37296
3. Provision of RCPs 6176 6176
4. Provision of RDELs To provide RDELs in 849270 95 cost positive SDCAs
5. Shared Mobile Infrastructure Scheme 653 towers 653
6. Provision of Wire line Broadband 85684 8416
SI.NO. NAME OF PLAN SCHEMES
1 SAMEER
2 Microelectronics & Nano-tech Dev Prog
3 Technology Development Council
4 Convergence,Communication & Strategic Electronics
5 Components & Material Development Prog
6 C-DAC
7 Electronics in Health & Telemedicine
8 Technology Dev. For Indian Languages
9 IT for Masses(Gender, SC/ST)
10 Media Lab Asia
11 STQC
12 STPI&EHTP
13 Digital Dna Park
14 Electronic Governance
15 Cyber Security(including CERT-IN, IT Act)
16 CCA
17 ERNET
18 Promotion of Electronics/It Hardware Mfg.
19 DOEACC
20 Manpower Development
21 Facilitation of Setting-up of Integrated Townships
22 Headquarters(Secretariat & Bldg.)
23 NIC
24 National Knowledge Network