(a): The present status of Digital India Programme along with the success achieved against the target set is as follows:
Pillar 1: Broadband Highways
• Under National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) project, optical fibre has reached to 53,557 Gram Panchayats against the envisaged target of 2,50,000 Gram Panchayats.
Pillar 2: Universal Access to Mobile Connectivity
• Mobile connectivity to be provided to 55,669 uncovered villages
• Tender has been floated for 11,621 North Eastern villages.
Pillar 3: Public Internet Access Programme
• 1.23 lakh Common Services Centres have been set up at Gram Panchayats level under CSC 2.0 scheme the envisaged target of 2,50,000 Gram Panchayats.
• 22,137 Post Offices for Core Banking Solution (CBS) and 25,406 Post Offices for Core Insurance Solution (CIS) have been migrated. ATM services are installed in 759 Post Offices.
Pillar 4: E-Governance : Reforming government through Technology
• Aadhaar seeding in PDS (55.7%), NREGA(61.9%), Scholarship(37%), Election Commission Database(38%), PAHAL (75.6%), NSAP (31.9%) completed
• Number of user Departments for e-Office is 171.
Pillar 5: eKranti- Electronic delivery of services
• The Mission Mode Projects (MMPs) has been increased from 31 MMPs to 44 MMPs under e-Kranti. 29 MMPs have been implemented.
• The MMPs of e-Kranti have been delivering more than 62 crore e-Transactions per month.
Pillar 6: Information for All
• MyGov platform, a medium to seek ideas/ suggestions from Citizen, has been implemented. 49 Groups, 489 Tasks, 589 Discussion Themes, 221 Blogs are operational on MyGov. 35.1 lakh registered users. 1.81 lakh contributions for 464 tasks. 33.9 lakh comments for 584 discussions. Weekly newsletters are being sent to more than 18.5 lakh registered users.
• Open Government Data platform has been implemented which exposes government data to citizens. Currently 27,337 datasets from 111 Departments are available and 29.2 lakhs downloaded.
Pillar 7: Electronics Manufacturing - Target NET ZERO Imports
• 199 Investment proposals under Modified Specific Incentive Programmes (MSIPs) having a proposed investment of Rs. 1.22 lakh crores have been so far received.
• 7 Greenfield Electronics Manufacturing Clusters (EMCs) and 1 Common Facility Centre (CFC) in Brownfield have been approved.
• Electronic Development Fund has been launched and 11 venture funds involving Rs. 490.00 crore have been approved.
Pillar 8: IT for Jobs
• 48,300 seats have been approved under India BPO scheme and over 5000 seats have been approved for BPOs in North East. 300 seats at Guwahati, Shillong and Itanagar have been allotted.
• Around 72.92 lakh candidates have been trained and more than 33.15 lakh candidates have been certified so far under Digital Literacy Program (Digital Saksharta Abhiyan)
Pillar 9: Early Harvest Programme
• Secure email within government project has been implemented for 10 lakh employees in Phase I.
• SMS based weather information and disaster alerts have been made operational.
• Over 20.26 lakh residents have created their accounts on Digital Locker. More than 24.77 lakh documents have been uploaded on it.
• More than 9.45 lakh Life Certificates have been processed through Jeevan Pramaan portal.
• Online Registration System (ORS) has been made operational in 43 hospitals and 28.60 lakh online appointments have been provided so far.
• Since 15th August 2014, mailers have been sent on 239 campaigns through SAMPARK (IT platform for messages) to 1.1 crore emails and 14 crore Mobile nos.
• The Government e-Greetings have been sent to more than 20 lakh citizens directly from the portal. The portal has more over 642 cards.
• Biometric Attendance has been implemented in 638 Central Government offices covering 1.85 lakh employees and States/UTs involving 2 lakh employees.
• On the National Portal for Lost & Found children (Khoya-Paya), 4362 users have registered, 3102 are being sighted and 752 missing children have been reported.
• The National Scholarships Portal, a one stop solution for end to end scholarship process, have been implemented. 77 scholarship schemes from 16 Ministries / Departments have been registered.
Each project/scheme being implemented under Digital India programme has its own budgetary requirement.
(b): Various projects/schemes are being implemented under the Digital India programme. These projects/schemes have their own project implementation approach and methodologies. As per the requirements of individual project/scheme’s implementation, Central/State Government organisations, private and public sector IT companies and individuals from Academia are providing their services for efficient and smooth delivery of the project/scheme.
(c) and (d): Yes, Sir. The Government has identified several new areas and the details of new initiatives undertaken are as follows:
• Unified Mobile App for New-age Governance (UMANG): UMANG is an initiative to build a common, unified platform and mobile app to facilitate single point of access for government services through mobile. Through the application, citizens can access high impact pan India e-Gov services from the central Government, State Governments, local bodies and their agencies and, even those from private sector.
• Government e-Marketplace (GeM): To facilitate on line procurement of Goods & Services required by various Government Departments / Organizations / PSUs. GeM will enhance transparency, efficiency and speed in public procurement. It will also provide the tools of e-bidding and reverse e-auction as well as demand aggregation to facilitate efficient procurement.
• Rapid Assessment System (RAS): RAS is a continuous feedback system for e-services delivered through various Digital India platforms and various e-Gov applications.
• Digital Literacy: In new National Digital Literacy Mission(NDLM) scheme, target is to make 6 crore people digitally literate in 3 years.
• National Scholarships Portal (NSP): The portal is a one-stop solution to implement end-to-end disbursement of the scholarship to the beneficiaries. The process includes student registration, application, approval and disbursement. 76 schemes of 22 Ministries/Departments of the Government are being on-boarded on the portal.
• NIC e-Mail: The current E-mail infrastructure of NIC is being augmented to meet the requirement of providing e- mail services to 5 million Government users. The upgraded email infrastructure will enable the scaling up of the E-mail services of NIC with additional features, for all the employees of Government both at the Centre and State. This service will have the latest E-mail architecture, design, performance, and deployment features. This service would be configured in a manner to protect sensitive data with content filtering, virus protection, and encryption.
• National Centre of Geo-informatics (NCoG): GIS platform for sharing, collaboration, location based analytics and decision support system for Departments. Currently, 8 applications across various domains are operational.
(e) and (f): The Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India is implementing e-District Mission Mode Project (MMP) under Pillar 5 (eKranti – Electronic Delivery of Services) of Digital India programme. The duration of implementation of e-District MMP is 4 years. This MMP aims at electronic delivery of identified high volume citizen centric services at the district or sub-district level. e-District services have been launched in 555 districts across 27 States including all 33 districts of Gujrat. The State-wise launch status is provided at Annexure.
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Annexure
State-wise status of launch of e-District services
S. No State / UT Name No. of Districts No. of Districts where eDistrict services are launched
1 Andaman & Nicobar 3 0
2 Andhra Pradesh 13 13
3 Arunachal Pradesh 16 0
4 Assam 27 27
5 Bihar 38 4
6 Chandigarh 1 1
7 Chhattisgarh 27 27
9 Dadra and Nagar Haveli 1 1
8 Daman and Diu 2 0
10 Delhi 11 11
11 Goa 2 0
12 Gujarat 33 33
13 Haryana 21 21
14 Himachal Pradesh 12 12
15 Jammu & Kashmir 22 0
16 Jharkhand 24 24
17 Karnataka 30 0
18 Kerala 14 14
19 Lakshadweep 1 0
20 Madhya Pradesh 51 51
21 Maharashtra 35 35
22 Manipur 9 9
23 Meghalaya 11 11
24 Mizoram 8 8
25 Nagaland 11 11
26 Odisha 30 30
27 Puducherry 4 0
28 Punjab 22 22
29 Rajasthan 33 33
30 Sikkim 4 1
31 Tamil Nadu 32 32
32 Telangana 10 10
33 Tripura 8 8
34 Uttar Pradesh 75 75
35 Uttarakhand 13 13
36 West Bengal 18 18
Total 672 555
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