Question : Digi-Gaon Project

Will the Minister of Electronics and Information Technology be pleased to state:

(a) whether the Government has proposed to implement Digital Village (DigiGaon) pilot project in the country;
(b) if so, the details along with the aims and objective thereof;
(c) the number of villages targeted to be included in the Digital Village project in 2018-19, State-wise including Orissa;
(d) the amount provided for implementation of digital village in schemes related to health education and skill development for the year 2018-19? and
(e) the details of facilities to be made available in such digital villages?

a), (b) and (c): Yes, Sir. The Government of India under the Digital India Programme has envisaged the Digital village pilot project to demonstrate the potential of digital technologies for providing various Government to Citizen (G2C) Services and other associated services to citizens, especially living in the rural areas across all States including Orissa.

(d): As the pilot project is proposed to be implemented as a service-based model in collaboration with State Governments, no amount has been released by the Government so far.

(e): It is intended to provide various Government to Citizen (G2C) Services and other associated services useful for rural areas, such as Skill Development, Tele-education, Tele-medicine under the project.

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