(a): The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India has initiated the ‘Digital India’ programme with the vision to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. The Digital India programme is centred on three key vision areas namely Digital Infrastructure as a Core Utility to Every Citizen, Governance and Services on Demand and Digital Empowerment of Citizens. Digital India aims to provide the much needed thrust to nine pillars of growth areas that is (i) Broadband Highways, (ii) Universal Access to Mobile Connectivity, (iii) Public Internet Access Programme, (iv) e-Governance –Reforming Government through Technology, (v) e-Kranti– Electronic delivery of services, (vi) Information for All, (vii) Electronics Manufacturing – Target NET ZERO Imports, (viii) IT for Jobs and (ix) Early Harvest Programmes.
(b): Digital India is an umbrella programme that covers multiple projects of various central Ministries/Departments & States/UTs. Each project has its own budgetary requirement and accordingly project-plan has been charted out by the implementing Ministry/departments and budget details are being maintained by concerned Ministries/Departments & States/UTs. However, budget allocated and utilised by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology under Digital India programme is as follows:
Financial Year Budget allocated (Rs. in Crore) Actual Expenditure (Rs. in Crore)
2015-16 1550.80 1452.70
2016-17 1244.93 1217.65
2017-18 1413.63 1407.19
2018-19 3339.73 3328.57
2019-20 3750.76 2049.10 (as on 11.11.2019)
(c): Digital India is an umbrella programme that covers multiple projects of various Central Ministries/Departments & States/UTs. All States/UTs have already been covered under Digital India programme including state of Gujarat. The present status of some of the key initiatives undertaken under Digital India programme is as follows:
• BharatNet: BharatNet is an ambitious initiative to trigger a broadband revolution in rural areas. This project is being implemented by Department of Telecommunications. BharatNet aims to connect all the 2,50,000 Gram Panchayats in the country and provide 100 Mbps connectivity to all gram panchayats (GPs). So far, 3,80,988 Kms optical fiber has been laid connecting 1,40,668 Gram Panchayats. 1,28,376 Gram Panchayats are ready for service.
• Aadhaar: Aadhaar provides 12 digit biometric and demographic based identity that is unique, lifelong, online and authenticable. Further to give statutory backing to Aadhaar ‘The Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016’ was notified on 26th March 2016. Over 124+ crore residents have been enrolled.
• Common Services Centre (CSC): The Common Services Centres, which are kiosks for delivery of G2C Services, are being opened at each of 2,50,000 Gram Panchayats(GP). So far, 3.63 Lakh Common Services Centre are functional and are providing eServices; Out of this, 2.62 lakh are at GP level. Along with other services, CSCs are providing services related to Banking and Finance to rural citizens. Over 350+ digital services are being offered by these CSCs.
• Meghraj and CSP: As part of the Digital India program, Government of India embarked upon an ambitious initiative known as MeghRaj, to utilize and harness the benefits of Cloud Computing. To fast track the adoption of cloud computing MeitY, Government of India has empanelled cloud service offerings of the 13 Cloud Service Providers under different deployment models viz. Public Cloud, Virtual Private Cloud and Government Community Cloud.
• Digital locker: Digital Locker provides an ecosystem with collection of repositories and gateways for issuers to upload the documents in the digital repositories. So far, 3.23 crore registered user of DigiLocker. 369 crore authentic documents have been issued. 144 Issuers and 42 Requestor organizations have been on-boarded.
• Open Govt. Data Platform: Open Government Data (OGD) Platform is a platform for supporting Open Data initiative of Government of India. It intends to increase transparency in the functioning of Government and also open avenues for many more innovative usages of Government Data to give different perspective. Currently, 3,34,963 resources under 7,839 catalogs published by 162 Ministries/Departments.
• eTaal: eTaal is a web portal for dissemination of e-Transactions statistics of National and State level e-Governance Projects including Mission Mode Projects. It receives transaction statistics from web based applications periodically on near real time basis. More than 3691 crore transactions have been recorded for 3,751 services since January 2019.
• Government e-Market Place (GeM): To facilitate on line procurement of Goods & Services required by various Government Departments / Organizations / PSUs, Government e-Marketplace (GeM) has been implemented. GeM will enhance transparency, efficiency and speed in public procurement. Presently, GeM is being used by various Departments/Ministries of Central Govt and States/UTs. 2,99,544 Sellers and Services providers are registered on the portal. There are 14,85,806 Products and 19,415+ Services are available on the portal.
• Jeevan Pramaan: Digital Life Certificate for Pensioners scheme known as Jeevan Pramaan envisages to digitize the whole process of securing the life certificate. It is a biometric enabled digital service for pensioners. With this initiative, the pensioner is no more required to physically present himself or herself in front of disbursing agency or the certification authority. Over 3.06 crore Digital Life certificates have been processed since 2014.
• Online Registration System(ORS)/eHospital: Online Registration System (ORS) under eHospital includes online appointment and registration by new patients, viewing of lab reports, checking the status of blood availability and integration with payment gateway (PayGov). Till date, 30.79 lakh online appointments have been made in 237 Hospitals through ORS.
• NCOG- GIS Applications: National Centre of Geo-informatics (NCoG) project, is a GIS platform developed for sharing, collaboration, location based analytics and decision support system for Departments. So far, 497 applications across various domains are operational.
• Unified Mobile Application for New-Age Governance (UMANG): UMANG has been developed as a single mobile platform to deliver major Government services with Core Platform integrated with Aadhaar, DigiLocker, PayGov, Rapid Assessment System (RAS) etc. About 490 services from 104 departments and 21 States are already available on UMANG platform.
• MyGov: MyGov is a first-of-its-kind citizen engagement platform for participatory governance in India. MyGov aims to facilitate a dialogue between citizens and Government, bringing citizens closer to the Government and bringing the Government closer to the citizens it serves, via this platform. Presently, over 95 lakh users are registered with MyGov, participating in various activities hosted on MyGov platform. MyGov activities are structured under 64 groups consisting of 864 tasks, 816 discussions, 265 Polls/Surveys and 185 talks.
• Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyaan(PMGDISHA): The Government has approved a new scheme titled “Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (PMGDISHA)” in February, 2017 to usher in digital literacy in rural India by covering 6 Crore rural households (one person per household). As on date, over 2.30 crore candidates have been trained under PMGDISHA scheme, out of which more than 1.69 crore candidates have been certified.
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• Modified Special Incentive Package (M-SIPS): As on 31st October, 2019, 233 applications with proposed investment of approximately Rs. 63,610 crore have been approved; 21 applications with proposed investments of approximately Rs. 9,728 crore have been recommended by the Appraisal Committee for approval.
• Electronic Manufacturing Clusters (EMC): 23 applications (20 Greenfield EMCs and 3 Common Facility Centre in Brownfield EMCs) with project worth of Rs. 3898 crore including Central Grant-in-aid of Rs.1577 crore for setting up of Electronics Manufacturing Clusters(EMC) have been accorded final approval in 15 states across the country.
(d) and (e): Government had launched India BPO Promotion Scheme (IBPS) and North East BPO Promotion Scheme (NEBPS) under Digital India Program with the aim to create employment opportunities. Details-State/UT-wise and employment created is placed at annexure.
Annexure
Number of BPO/ITeS units started in each State/UT under IBPS and NEBPS
State/UT No. of units Direct employment reported
Andhra Pradesh 45 8749
Bihar 12 1095
Chandigarh 1 58
Chhattisgarh 4 194
Gujarat 1 10
Haryana 3 151
Himachal Pradesh 3 144
Jammu and Kashmir 8 559
Jharkhand 20 1752
Karnataka 11 1353
Kerala 3 205
Madhya Pradesh 6 1155
Maharashtra 16 2059
Odisha 21 1894
Puducherry 1 105
Punjab 10 3481
Rajasthan 3 579
Tamil Nadu 47 8035
Telangana 3 210
Uttar Pradesh 13 902
Uttarakhand 6 295
West Bengal 6 182
Arunachal Pradesh 1 28
Assam 6 235
Manipur 3 82
Meghalaya 2 174
Nagaland 1 130
Tripura 1 10
Total: 257 Units 33826
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