Government of India

Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology

EFC Memorandum for continuation of ‘Digital India Programme’ beyond March 31, 2023

Table of Contents
PART A ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 3
PART B.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 5
I. Manpower Development and PMGDISHA .................................................................................................................................................................................... 6
II. Electronic Governance Scheme (including EAP Projects) ........................................................................................................................................................ 35
III. National Knowledge Network (NKN) Scheme .......................................................................................................................................................................... 55
IV. Promotion of Electronics and Hardware Manufacturing Scheme........................................................................................................................................... 61
V. Promotion of Indian IT Industry (Services and Products) (IT&ITeS) ..................................................................................................................................... 73
VI. R&D in IT/ Electronics/ CC&BT scheme .................................................................................................................................................................................. 90
VII. Cyber Security Projects (NCCC & Others) Scheme ............................................................................................................................................................. 108
VIII. Promotion of Digital Payment Scheme.................................................................................................................................................................................. 129
Annexure-A-I-ISEA Phase III ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 138
Annexure-A-III(1)-Summary of impact assessment of NKN........................................................................................................................................................ 145
Annexure-A-VI-List of R&D Projects ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 147
Annexure-B – Overall (as per format given by D/o Expenditure) ............................................................................................................................................... 157
Annexure-C-Overall Inter-ministerial Consultations (held in 2021) and its responses ............................................................................................................. 163
Annexure-D-Final observations of IFD .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 209

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PART A

1. Name of the umbrella scheme under which scheme is to be continued

Digital India Programme

Total outlay of the umbrella scheme: Scheme-wise and year-wise

(In case of umbrella Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS), specify the overall Central Govt. and State Govt. Shares)

Rs.in Crore

Fund Projections under Umbrella Scheme of Digital India Programme during the XV Finance Commission Cycle *
(FY 21-22 up-to FY 25-26)
Sub-Schemes Actual BE Projection Projection Projection Fund Total
Expenditure provision for FY for FY 24- for FY 25- proposed for fund for 5
FY-21-22 for FY 22- 23-24 25 26 next 3 years years (FY21-
23 FY23-FY25 FY25)
Manpower Development / 573.66 600.00 827.34 951.00 1106.00 2884.34 4058.00
PMGDISHA
Electronic Governance (Incl. EAP) 316.78 525.00 900.97 651.09 380.09 1932.15 2773.93
National Knowledge Network (NKN) 500.00 650.00 495.52 - - 495.52 1645.52
Promotion of Electronics and IT Hardware 295.92 86.68 74.33 83.77 87.40 245.50 628.10
Manufacturing
Promotion of IT and ITeS Industries 69.79 100.00 285.08 176.83 196.30 658.21 828.00
α
R&D in IT/ Elect./ CCBT (incl. TDIL + 515.07 598.17 1267.43 1110.95 513.18 2891.56 4004.80
TIDE +ET)
Cyber Security Projects (NCCC & others)# 322.12 300.00 432.38 1400.00 1010.50 2842.88 3465.00
# #
Promotion of Digital Payments 12.08 32.25 35.57 35.00 35.00 105.57 149.90
(1044.33) (200.00)
Total 2605.42 2892.10 4318.62 4408.64 3328.47 12055.73 17553.25

#
Additional funds of Rs 600.00 Cr will be required in FY 2026-27 for building Primary and Disaster Recovery Data Centres for CERT-In, NCCC.
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*
Several new initiatives are planned, which are either approved or at advanced stage of development. For these projects, all attempt is made to factor the
cost within existing budget as per for formulae given by Department of Expenditure. However, there are genuine case for additional fund requirements
and same are indicated separately along with break-up details at sub-scheme level.
α
Pursuant to the recommendations of the Standing Finance Committee meeting held on 17.2.2021 for appraisal of “National Language Translation
Mission (NLTM): Bhashini”, in respect of the said Mission of TDIL project under the sub-scheme ‘R&D in Electronics, IT and CC&BT’, modifications,
deemed essential and beneficial to the Mission, can be made with the approval of Secretary, MeitY after recommendation of the Executive Committee for
the Mission. This provision for making modifications would continue.

All Schemes are Central Sector Schemes. The additional outlay details vis-à-vis scheme and year are section I-VIII.

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PART B

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 I. Manpower Development and PMGDISHA Schemes

PART-B

1. Name of the Scheme

Digital India Manpower Development Schemes including Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (PMGDISHA) Scheme

Note: *New name of the above scheme is proposed as “Capacity Building & Skill Development Scheme”.

2. Objectives of the Scheme

The overall objective of the Schemes/ Projects implemented under the Capacity Building & Skill Development Scheme is to ensure availability of
trained human resources for the Manufacturing andService sectors of Electronics and IT industry and also providing digital literacy to citizens in rural
India for enhancing digital inclusion.

3. Background of the Scheme

Under the above said scheme various initiatives undertaken includes capacity building/training requirements at post-graduate level, graduate level, niche
areas, vocational/skill development pertaining to Electronics & IT industry, implement programmes like digital literacy training to rural citizen, capacity
development for vulnerable groups including women & SC/ST communities, besides creation/ strengthening of facilities at backward areas especially in
North East Region along with spreading digital literacy to rural population to bridge the divide. The Schemes mainly comprises of the following broad
activities:
A. Human Resource Development (HRD) Programmes/ Activities
B. IT for Masses Programme
C. Internet Governance
D. e-Infrastructure Projects
E. e-Learning
F. PMGDISHA

A. Human Resource Development (HRD) Programmes/Activities: The Skill Development activities of the MeitY are primarily being taken up by
its two autonomous societies viz. National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT previously known as DOEACC) and
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC). In addition, the various organizations / attached offices under the Department viz.

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 ERNET India, Media Lab Asia, CSC E-Governance Services India Limited, STQC, NIC etc. are also engaged in capacity building/ training of various
stakeholders. A total of 26.44 Lakh candidates trained in last five years.

New Project Approved/Initiated in 2021 onwards

i) Capacity Building in IECT including training in Digital Skill sets and Current Industry Demanding Technologies for various sections of society in the
NE States
ii) Indian Nanoelectronics Users’ Programme - Idea to Innovation (INUP-i2i)
iii) Work Based Learning (WBL) programme to Strengthen and Empower SC/ST/Women/EWS Graduate Engineers through MeitY Institutions
iv) Capacity building for human resource development in Unmanned Aircraft System (Drone and related Technology)
v) Project Proposal for Capacity Building Program in Key IT Technologies for Employability Enhancement being implemented by Broadcast
Engineering Consultants India Limited (BECIL)
vi) Establishment of Intelligent educational infrastructure (SMART) in Eklavya Model Residential Schools (EMRSs)”
vii) MedSIM 2.0: Online Skills Lab and Virtual Patient Cases
viii) Capacity Building Program using ICT Tools & Technology to enhance Livelihood of Weavers/ Artisans of Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC),
Assam
ix) AyurSIM - Ayurvedic Virtual Clinical Simulation
x) Facilitation of IT enabled trainings for generating skilled HCW's in General Pandemic Management and Covid-19 Management
x) Skill Development of youth in Digital Technologies in Tier-II and Tier –III cities in the Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand being implemented Banaras
Hindu University
xi) Uses of IT for Elderly Citizens of Haryana being implemented HARDICON
xii) Capacity Building for Imparting Training to Unemployed Graduates, Post Graduates and Undergraduates in some of the Emerging/In-Demand ICT
Areas being implemented by RCC Institute of Information Technology (RCCIIT), Kolkata
xiii) Enhancement of Livelihood activities using Modern Technology & IT- Tools at Contai, East Medinipur, West Bengal being implemented WEBEL,
Kolkata
xiv) Creation of IT Industries ready Software professional for unemployed IT Graduate/Diploma holders in Manipur through awareness, motivation and
Expert’s training
xv) ICT intervention in Travel & Tourism (T&T) Industry Through Capacity Building in New Age Digital Technologies
xvi) Digital Intervention on Handloom and Handicraft Sector for livelihood enhancement of artisans of NE States, NIELIT Kohima
xvii) Capacity Building for unemployed ST youths of Manipur in Assembly and Repair & Maintenance of Solar Lighting system, Household
Electronics/Electrical & IoT Devices, NIELIT Senapati
xviii) Capacity building and training in emerging technologies for enhancing employment opportunities and skilling
xix) Setting up of Centre of NIELIT at Bikaner
xx) Setting up of NIELIT Extension Centre at Puducherry
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xxi) Setting up of permanent campus of NIELIT Shillong, Meghalaya
xxii) Design and Development of an Intelligent On-line Teaching-Learning Portal for Enhanced Problem-Solving & Programming Skills

B- e-Learning: The e-Learning activities of MeitY in the past included implementation of several projects in the area of content development,
R&D/technology development, human resource development, faculty training, etc. to improve distance education using ICT tools (Computers,
Multimedia and the Web). Many Academic Institutions / R&D Labs have also been financially supported by MeitY to carry out R&D projects in the
field of e-Learning.

C- IT for Masses Programme and Fee reimbursement under ‘Special component plan for SC’ and ‘Tribal Area Sub-Plan’
i) IT for Masses Programme: The objectives of IT for Masses Programme is to initiate/promote activities in Information & Communication
Technology (ICT) for focus groups (Scheduled Castes(SCs), Scheduled Tribes(STs), Women, Senior Citizens, Differently-abled, Economically Weaker
Section (EWS) and Minorities) and areas (North Eastern Region, Backward Districts and Blocks & Districts having more than 40% SC/ST population)
for inclusive growth of IT Sectors through Infrastructure Creation, Deployment of IT tools, IT Training & Capacity Building, Cluster development &
Entrepreneurship Creation.
ii) Fee reimbursement under ‘Special component plan for SC’ and ‘Tribal Area Sub-Plan’: As per the directions and guidelines received from
NITI Aayog (erstwhile Planning Commission) through MeitY vide their communication No.D.O.No.M-13054/2/2005-BC dated 05.09.07, no fee should
be charged from the SC and ST candidates for educational and skill development programmes by the Government and autonomous institutions and the
expenditure for the Scheme should be accounted for from the SC and ST fund of the respective Ministries /Departments. Since 2007-08, MeitY is
releasing funds to National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT) towards fee reimbursement for providing free IT training to
the candidates belonging to SC and ST categories.
D. Internet Governance (IG) Internet Governance is the development and application by governments, the private sector and civil society, in their
respective roles, of shared principles, norms, rules, decision-making procedures, and programmes that shape the evolution and use of the Internet.The
objectives of Internet Governance Division is to enhance India’s role in global platform of Internet Governance, which includes creating an ecosystem
for greater engagement of Indian stakeholder in Internet public Policy Making Process and technical standards development process on both domestic as
well as international forums and to strengthen India’s internal internet infrastructure related to Domain name system, Internationalised Domain
Names/Email address Internationalization & IP addressing, Capacity Building and Awareness on Internet Governance in India. Various projects have
been initiated by MeitY to conduct evidence based research which will build capacity for India’s participation in multiple international forums and also
strengthen domestic policy related to internet. These projects would lead India to become a model Centre and provide thought leadership in DNS and
DNS security related technologies, conducting high-end research in DNS Security, building internal competencies in DNS Security by offering advanced
training programs and establish a test-bed of DNS for research and training. The outcomes of the projects in IG would enable meaningful and sustained
engagement in internet governance related forums/organizations with particular focus on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

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(ICANN), Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Internet Governance Forum (IGF) etc. For the next five years MeitY would be focusing on the
following broad core areas in order to strengthen India’s position in Internet Governance:
a) Ensuring open, safe, trusted and accountable internet for all.
b) Building up self reliant/ resilient internet infrastructure
c) Institutionalization of Internet Governance in India
d) Equity and promoting ease of access through the enablement and proliferation of Multilingual Internet
e) Representation of India in global internet policy making bodies and forums.
E - e-Infrastructure Projects: The objectives of e-Infrastructure activities have been to formulate and support programs and projects to sustain the E-
Infrastructure requirements for the growth of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and to meet the challenges of continuing need to
invest in quality infrastructure, promote R&D efforts, create intellectual property in communications, Internet and broadband technologies and the
related policy issues. The ongoing projects pertaining to e-Infrastructure are as follows:
i) Setting up Wi-Fi enabled campus network at Patna University
ii) Strengthening ICT Infrastructure in Himachal Pradesh University
iii) Optical Wireless Access Network for Rural and Urban Communication

F- Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (PMGDISHA): It aims at digital literacy among rural populations.

4. Whether central Sector (CS) Scheme/ Centrally Sponsored Scheme:

Currently Digital India Manpower Development Schemes and Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (PMGDISHA) are implemented as
two separate Central Sector Schemes. It is proposed to merge of Digital India Manpower Development Schemes and Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital
Saksharta Abhiyan (PMGDISHA) scheme for ease of operation as both of the schemes are aimed at capacity building.

5. Total Proposed Outlay (Component wise and year wise for FY 2023-24 to FY 2025-26):

The Total proposed outlay for FY 2023-24 to FY 2025-26 (Component wise and year wise for) are as under:
(Rs. in Crore)
The breakup is as follows:

Division Total 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26

HRD 1433.34 365.34 468.00 600.00
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 e-Learning 17.00 5.00 6.00 6.00
IT for Masses (Incl. SCSP/TSP Scheme) 107.00 30.00 37.00 40.000
Internet Governance 27.00 7.00 10.00 10.00
e-Infrastructure 50.00 10.00 20.00 20.00
PMGDISHA 1250.00 410.00 410.00 430.00
Total 2884.34 827.34 951.00 1106.00

6. Actual Expenditure of the ongoing scheme in last 3 years

Expenditure under Digital India Manpower Development Schemes FY 2019-20onwards
(Rs. in crores)
Sl. No. Financial Year Revised Estimates (RE) Actual Expenditure
1 2019-20 338.00 337.97
2 2020-21 190.00 190.00
3 2021-22 400.00 273.67
Total 928.00 801.74

Expenditure under PMGDISHA Scheme in last 03 Years (FY 2019-20onwards)

(Rs. in crores)
Sl. No. Financial Year Revised Estimates (RE) Actual Expenditure
1 2019-20 400 400
2 2020-21 250 250
3 2021-22 300 300
Total 950 950

7. Approved output/outcome review and comments of the Ministry/Department on each observation of the scheme (in a tabular form)

The Capacity Building & Skill Development Scheme (Digital India Manpower Development Schemes/Projects including PMGDISHA) would comprise
of the activities/ programmes of Human Resource Development (HRD) Programmes/ Activities, IT for Masses Programme, Internet Governance, e-
Infrastructure Projects, e-Learning and PMGDISHA. Measurable indicators for some of the key projects are as follows:

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Sr. Name of the Outcome Indicators for outcome Achievements
N Project/Scheme
1 Visvesvaraya PhD Promote PhDs/Research in the area Number of PhDs candidate 1,349 PhD candidates (1019 Full
Scheme Phase-I of ESDM and IT/ITES enrollment and completed time and 330 Part time) at 97
Academic institutions
2 Visvesvaraya PhD Promote PhDs/Research in the area Number of PhDs candidate 71 institutions have been received
Scheme Phase-II of ESDM and IT/ITES enrollment and completed comprising of 2157 Full-time and
725 Part-time PhD seats for 200
Full-time and 30 Part-time seats
3 Scheme for Financial Faculty/mentor Number of Faculty/mentor 1868 Faculty Development
Assistance for setting development/upgradation to trained Programmes (FDPs) have been
up of Electronics & improve the employability of conducted by the academies
ICT Academies students of various streams covering 1,05,649 Faculty
members
4 Chips to Startup Availability of Specialized Number of Candidates trained Scheme has been approved and
(C2S) Programme Manpower in the area of VLSI and implements has been start; 220
Embedded System Design project proposals have been
received from academic
institutions, R&D organizations
and Start-ups across the country;
remote access to design tools and
fabrication support to 100
participating institutions under
C2S Programme
5 Information Security Availability of manpower in the Number of Candidates trained 81,000 candidates have been
Education and area of Information Security, and and total number covered though trained/ are undergoing training in
Awareness (ISEA) awareness on Information Security awareness on Information various formal/ non-formal
Project Phase–II Security courses through 52 institutions
(further, around 2.74 lakhs
candidates have been reported as
trained/under-going training in
affiliated colleges of five
Technical Universities under the

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 project). As a part of awareness
creation, around 2.69 lakh
participants have been Covered
and around 5.75 crore estimated
beneficiaries have been impacted
through various awareness
activities under indirect mode.
6 Future Skills PRIME Availability of manpower in the Candidates trained and certified 3,94,925 candidates have enrolled
(Programme for Re- area of Emerging Technology for NOS/NSQF aligned and non-
Skilling/Up-Skilling aligned courses, out of which,
of IT Manpower in over 1, 36,258 candidates have
New Emerging completed the course.
Technologies for
Employability):
7 “Scheme for Availability of manpower in the Candidates trained and certified 4.28 lakh candidates have been
Financial Assistance area ESDM (Service / manufacture enrolled, out of which 4.28 lakh
to select States for Domain) candidates have been trained and
Skill Development in 3.04 lakh candidates have been
Electronics System duly certified after assessment.
Design and
Manufacturing
(ESDM)
sector”(Scheme1),
8 “Skill Development
in ESDM for Digital
India”(Scheme2),
9 Development of Availability of manpower in the Candidates trained and certified 1.92 lakh candidates have been
North-Eastern area IECT Domain in NER regions trained in various Electronics &
Region by enhancing ICT courses. Apart from 18
the Training/ centres 3 more Centre/Extension
Education capacity in are operation in three NE states at
the Information, Nagaland, Tripura and Assam.
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 Communications
Technology (IECT)
Area
10 Technology Providing expert medical education Candidates trained and certified The Virtual Teaching facility has
mediated delivery of and continued classes through been set up in the eight identified
e-courses in Medical technology mediated education by NER medical colleges, under the
Science Education Virtual teaching project. The Virtual Teaching
for NER Medical assistance is being provided
Colleges through Webinars, wherein the
Webinars – held from time to
time, are attended by around 150-
190 students from various NER
medical colleges.
11 Capacity Building in To provide awareness and training Candidates trained and certified 36,713 candidates have been
IECT including in IECT to citizens spread across trained so far.
training in Digital different sections of the society by
Skill sets and Current 08(eight) NIELIT Centres located
Industry Demanding in the NE Region and to train 1.66
Technologies for lakhs candidates in various IECT
various sections of domains.
society in the NE
States
12 Indian Nano Enhancing R&D ecosystem in Candidates trained and certified 1300 candidates have been
electronics Users’ Nanoelectronics area by leveraging trained; 10 Familiarization
Programme - Idea to the Nano centres; Broadening of Workshops (Level 1) and 7 Hands
Innovation (INUP- Nanoelectronics research base in on Training workshops (Level 2)
i2i), country by mentoring of tier 2/3 have been conducted. For Level 3
educational institutions and R&D training, approximately 289 R&D
organizations through collaboration. projects have been received out of
which 136 have been approved.
13 Work Based To provide an opportunity to Candidates trained and certified. The programme has been
Learning (WBL) SC/ST/EWS/Women candidates to linked/uploaded on AICTE
programme to acquire Technical Knowledge internship portal.

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 Strengthen and Expansion, Real-time Working
Empower Skills, Technology Use, Problem
SC/ST/Women/EWS Solving Skills, Reasoning, Ideation,
Graduate Engineers Analytical Thinking, Interpersonal
through MeitY Skills, etc. in a professional work
Institutions environment
14 Project Proposal for To do Capacity Building of Candidates trained and certified. First installment has been released
Capacity Building Professional resources to the to implementing agency.
Program in Key IT industry for the implementation of
Technologies for various e-Governance projects for
Employability which initiatives taken up by
Enhancement being government under Digital India
implemented by Programme. It will help our youth
Broadcast to become self-reliant, to get Self-
Engineering Employment in various IT/ITeS
Consultants India domain.
Limited (BECIL)
15 Establishment of Setting up of intelligent educational Candidates trained and certified. ICT infrastructures have been
Intelligent Infrastructure (smart) in Eklavya installed, commissioned and
educational Model Residential Schools operational at 43 Nos. of EMRSs
infrastructure (EMRSs) by creating echo system
(SMART) in Eklavya using latest tools and technologies
Model Residential and provide the Internet
Schools (EMRSs) connectivity in Eklavya Model
Residential Schools (EMRSs)
16 MedSIM 2.0: Online To design and develop Preclinical Candidates trained and certified. The consultation paper on
Skills Lab and and Paraclinical Online Skills Lab, MedSIM 2.0 has been sent to all
Virtual Patient Cases develop New Virtual Patient Case premium medical colleges of
Simulations to cover the entire India for their view in
MBBS curriculum, Aligned with consultation of CDAC
MBBS Regulations 2020, National Trivandrum, AMRITA
Medical Commission and to University, and AIIMS
enhance existing MedSIM (1.0) BHUBNESHWAR
platform with Authoring tool,
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 Learning Analytics, Assessment &
Feedback.
17 Capacity Building Handloom community development Candidates trained and certified. Setting-up of high-end ICT
Program using ICT in Two Districts of BTC, Assam i.e. enabled Training Centre at Baksa
Tools & Technology Kokrajhar & Baksa using modern and Kokrajhar district of BTC,
to enhance technologies like a computer Assam has been completed and
Livelihood of embroidery machines, e-Tailoring procurement of handloom
Weavers/ Artisans of Technology, Design creation using machineries has also been
Bodoland Territorial CAD software etc. and to train 5000 initiated.
Council (BTC), beneficiaries.
Assam
18 AyurSIM - To design of a platform to offer Candidates trained and certified. SRS for the simulations for the
Ayurvedic Virtual Ayurvedic Virtual Patients to medical cases namely BP,
Clinical Simulation support patients Assessment (Rogi Temperature, Head
Pariksha) and disease assessment Circumference, Chest
(Rogi Pariksha). Design Ayurvedic Circumference, Mid-Upper arm
virtual patient cases with both circumference, Height, Weight,
diagnostic and treatment module. Nasal polyp, Inferior turbinate
Design simulations/ animations hypertrophy, septal deviation,
videos to support patient sinus examination, capillary
assessment and disease assessment refilling time and visceral fat has
and have to perform 54 clinical been prepared
cases and 54 case simulations
19 Facilitation of IT To imparting Online Professional Candidates trained and certified. Online training portal and LMS -
enabled trainings for Training, to about 6500 interns and Medical Education with e-
generating skilled final year MBBS students, on Technology [MEeT], has been
HCW's in General various aspects of General established and is being used for
Pandemic Pandemic and Covid-19 conduction of trainings. Six
Management and management, which will not only training programs have been
Covid-19 enhance the preparedness and conducted;1594 candidates have
Management responsiveness of the Health care been enrolled and out of which
workers (HCW’s). 570 candidates have been
certified.

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20 Skill Development of Provide skill-oriented training in Candidates trained and certified. Out of 8 courses and 2000
youth in Digital different IT and ITES related candidates to be trained, it has
Technologies in Tier- technologies to the youth in the been worked out that for five
II and Tier –III states of Uttar Pradesh & courses, services of a suitable
cities in the Uttar Uttarakhand with the purpose of training partner will be used. This
Pradesh and improving their employability and will comprise 1800 candidates to
Uttarakhand being entrepreneurial capabilities. be trained. The process for
implemented selecting training partner is
Banaras Hindu completed and the issuance of
University work order is in process.
21 Uses of IT for to make use of IT Tools and Candidates trained and certified. The courseware under the project
Elderly Citizens of applications for making ease of life has been developed and approved.
Haryana being for elderly citizen with outcome to The enrolment and training has
implemented digitally literate 3840 elderly been started.
HARDICON people in four districts of Haryana
namely Ambala, Karnal,
Kurukshetra and Faridabad
22 Capacity Building To develop specialized labs Candidates trained and certified. First installment has been
for Imparting equipped with state-of-the-art released.
Training to computing devices, hardware,
Unemployed software, tools and accessories and
Graduates, Post also develop digital learning
Graduates and content and learning management
Undergraduates in system to support training of the
some of the students in some of the emerging
Emerging/In- ICT areas.
Demand ICT Areas
being implemented
by RCC Institute of
Information
Technology
(RCCIIT), Kolkata
23 Enhancement of Up gradation of traditional & Candidates trained and certified. Infrastructure development is on
Livelihood activities monotonous handloom handicraft process and Identification of
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 using Modern production process of Medinipure Artisans/Weavers/Carpenters
Technology & IT- by modern technological &Local Youth for Trainees
Tools at Contai, East intervention and application of IT- followed by WTL Selection
Medinipur, West Tools and to train 800 Procedure, 1st Batch beneficiaries
Bengal being weavers/artisans/carpenters/ local are enlisted and introductory part
implemented people in modern technology has been completed.
WEBEL, Kolkata related to handloom-handicraft
product design, production,
inspection, packaging and
marketing.

24 Creation of IT To provide 6-months training for Candidates trained and certified. First installment has been
Industries ready Creation of IT Industries ready released.
Software Software professional in Manipur to
professional for unemployed 100-IT
unemployed IT Graduate/Diploma holders in
Graduate/Diploma Manipur in 8- Job roles through
holders in Manipur awareness, motivation and Experts
through awareness, training as required by the IT
motivation and Industries in Manipur
Expert’s training
25 ICT intervention in To empower the target group with Candidates trained and certified. First installment has been
Travel & Tourism Digital Skills including released. Commencement of
(T&T) Industry understanding of e-commerce training will be started in the
Through Capacity digital transactions and associated month of Aug-2022.
Building in New Age concepts to help them leverage the
Digital Technologies benefits of technology for Travel,
Tourism & other related sectors
thereby opening newer as well as
better livelihood avenues either as
an employee or an entrepreneur
26 Digital Intervention Setup Digital Enabled Common Candidates trained and certified. So far 545 candidates has been
on Handloom and Facility Centre at Nagaland for the trained
Handicraft Sector for handloom and handicraft artisans of
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 livelihood NE States; To make traditional
enhancement of artisans and rural entrepreneurs
artisans of NE States, competitive and proved support for
NIELIT Kohima their long term sustainability and
economy of scale; and to train 5920
handloom and handicraft artisans of
NE States.
27 Capacity Building for Provide Capacity Building training Candidates trained and certified. First installment has been
unemployed ST to 250-youths in Manipur covering released.
youths of Manipur in 5-districts in “Assembly and Repair
Assembly and Repair & Maintenance of Solar Lighting
& Maintenance of system, Household
Solar Lighting Electronics/Electrical & IoT
system, Household Devices (Solar Lighting systems,
Electronics/Electrical LED Lights, Decorative Lights, and
& IoT Devices, switching System using IoT etc.)
NIELIT Senapati
27 Capacity building To enable entrepreneurship & Candidates trained and certified. So far 518 candidates has been
and training in sustainable development among trained in various courses in the
emerging Youths of Tripura by providing area of Emerging technology.
technologies for Skill Development Training in
enhancing Robotic Programming and
employment Maintenance; Arduino based
opportunities and Embedded System Designing;
skilling Printed Circuit Board Designing,
Analysis and Manufacturing
Techniques; Cloud Computing and
Virtualization; Multimedia
Development; Android Apps
Development and to train 1400
candidates in various courses in the
area of Emerging technology.
28 Setting up of Centre Setup NIELIT center to cater the Candidates trained and certified. The Maharaja Ganga Singh
of NIELIT at skilling and capacity building need University and Govt. Dunger
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 Bikaner in IECT areas and to enhance the College, Bikaner has provided
employability and entrepreneurship built up space to NIELIT.
skills

29 Setting up of NIELIT To create skilled manpower in the Candidates trained and certified. First installment has been released
Extension Centre at area of Electronics, Computer to implementing agency.
Puducherry Science and Information
Technology related disciplines for
making available industry ready
professionals and also cater to the
need of the State and the region and
to conduct courses in non-formal
sector as per the demand of the
present industry need and in due
course, based on the experience in
implementation to achieve the
training of 1630 candidates.
30 Setting up To construct the permanent campus Candidates trained and certified. MoU has been signed with the
of permanent campus of NIELIT Shillong campus at Executing Agency (CPWD) for
of NIELIT Shillong, Meghalaya with 1637 Sqm of construction of permanent campus
Meghalaya Academic cum Administrative
block
31 Design and To design, develop, deploy and Candidates trained and certified. Administrative approval is issued
Development of an maintain a web based sustainable and first installment yet to be
Intelligent On-line platform to transform the Intern’s released.
Teaching-Learning works into possible real-time
Portal for Enhanced projects. Under the project it is
Problem-Solving & proposed to have an end-to-end
Programming Skills: management solution for utilizing
Intern’s works, right from
structured archival; selection and
evaluation criteria; sponsor
procedure; and support in
Incubation / start-up / Industry
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 collaboration.
32 Olabs NextG (OLabs To design and develop 500 Online Candidates trained and certified. Identification of 25 Labs done for
Next Generation) Labs and upgradation of existing subjects Mathematics, Social
173 labs using latest Science and Language and
tools/technologies for the students prototype development of 5 Labs
of classes VI-XII for various in Mathematics, 5 Labs in Social
subjects. Science and 4 Labs in Language
completed.
33 NER Region: Setting Set up an advanced Digital ICT lab Candidates trained and certified. Infrastructure has been delivered
up ICT Infrastructure Infrastructure in 40 Govt. School in & installed in all the 40 schools in
in Govt. School 8 NE states by creating an eco- spite of COVID challenges. 400
familiarized usage of system of personalized adaptive Teachers/staff have been trained.
personalized learning using the latest tools and 8 workshops have been conducted
adaptive" by ERNET technologies viz advance in each states of NER
India visualization tools using Virtual
Reality and Interactive Digital
Boards
34 Setting up of new Setting up of new NIELIT Centres / Candidates trained and certified.
NIELIT Centres Extension Centres is necessary for
/Extension Centers: training of youth in areas of
Electronics and ICT, especially in
those locations/ cities where such
type of training facilities are not
available. New NIELIT centres in
such area would also provide
impetus in terms of infrastructure
facilities and employment prospects
for the youth in such regions

8. Existing and proposed funding pattern (in a tabular form) along with rationale.

All the Schemes and projects being implemented under the scheme are funded primarily as Grant-in –Aid (GIA) and the same pattern is proposed to be
continued.

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9. Major findings of evaluation outcome review and comments of the Ministry/Department on each observation of the scheme (Attach
evaluation report)

All ongoing Schemes/Projects being implemented under Digital India Manpower Development Schemes have been evaluated by a 3 rd party evaluation
Committee under the chairmanship of Prof. Mangala Sundar Krishnan from IIT, Madras.For PMGDISHA Indian Institute of Public Administration
(IIPA) was engaged by MeitY to conduct 3rd party evaluation of the PMGDISHA scheme in order to study it from an independent perspective and
suggest mid-course correction. The key recommendation of the 3rd party evaluation Committee for the ongoing Schemes/Projects being implemented
under Capacity Building & Skill Development Scheme (Digital India Manpower Development Schemes and PMGDISHA)are given in succeeding paras.

i)Digital India Manpower Development Schemes All the Schemes/Projects have been evaluated by a 3rd party evaluation Committee. The report of the
3rd party evaluation Committee is provided separately.

The key recommendations of the 3rd party evaluation Committee are as under:
a) Emphasis needs to be laid on nurturing of talent through regular investments in development of human resources in the area of IECT. An
outcome-based approach is desirable across all schemes/projects and synergy between different projects and schemes would yield maximum
benefits for the society.
b) In order to sustain the growth of information and communication technologies, there is a need for continuous investments in Manpower
Development Schemes (as it has very high rate of obsolescence), including development of quality infrastructure and capacity building
in the areas of ICT at both formal as well as non-formal levels.
c) Through collaborative efforts between the Government, Academia and the Industry, beneficiaries of the Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme needs
to be encouraged to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset, which can lead to startups development of indigenous products/ services etc.
d) With a view to ensure that Academic labs established under schemes/ projects (such as the proposed ISEA Phase-3) do not work
in isolation, students/ research scholars may also be facilitated to incubate their ideas in these labs through Industry-Academia
collaborations.
e) Academic institutions can also consider incentivizing such programs by assigning appropriate credits to such candidates.
f) Under appropriate schemes/ projects, fellowship programs for working professionals can also be considered, which would add a new
perspective and would also seek to address demand-gaps and provide an opportunity to „do something exceptional‟, which is otherwise not
available in a typical job or in an internship.
g) Suitable schemes/ projects, including those related with Internet Governance, may also incorporate a culture of hackathons and grand-
challenges, to attract newer thoughts andideas that could be leveraged for evolving appropriate solutions.
h) Considering the importance of e-Waste Management in India, the awareness components may be suitably enhanced to address the needs of
a larger spectrum of stakeholders. To spread the message across various stakeholders especially the policy makers, implementers,
industry, common masses etc., appropriate interventions at policy level is highly desirable at both, central as well as state levels.
i) New schemes/ projects needs to conceptualized and structured around the NPE-2019 and NPSP-2019 and may also include innovative
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 measures such as igniting youth/ young minds on electronic skills, computational thinking, digital-making; learning by doing pedagogies;
harnessing the power of technology for comprehensive early learning solutions in reading, writing and math skills, etc.
j) The IT for Masses schemes/ projects needs to further leverage upon new initiatives aimed to improve the capabilities, access to
opportunities and empowerment of citizens, including the weaker sections i.e. Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Women beneficiaries,
Senior Citizens, Differently-abled, Economically Weaker Section (EWS), etc.
k) As the existing schemes/projects are demonstrating good progress, they may be allowed to continue till the achievements of their
objectives/targets
l) All the Schemes/Projects being implemented under "Digital India-Manpower Development Scheme" by MeitY are well placed to meet the
envisaged objectives/deliverables and hence may be continued beyond March 2020 under the budget head "Manpower Development Scheme"
3rd party evaluation Committee recommended / proposed a total of Rs. 3550 crore for the next 05 years (FY 2020-21 to FY 2024-25) for the
Manpower Development Scheme. Detail is as under:
(Rs. in crore)
Division 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25 Total
HRD 400 455 500 725 820 2900
IT for Masses 60 70 80 90 100 400
(Incl. SCSP / TSP
Scheme)
Internet Governance 10 12 14 16 18 70
e-Infrastructure 20 22 24 26 28 120
e-Waste 5 6 7 8 9 35
e-Learning 5 5 5 5 5 25
Total 500 570 630 870 980 3550

ii)Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (PMGDISHA): The Government of India has approved a scheme titled “Pradhan Mantri
Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (PMGDISHA)” to usher in digital literacy in rural India by covering 6 crore rural households (one person per
household). It is being implemented as a Central Sector Scheme by the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology through an implementing
agency namely CSC e-Governance Services India Limited, with active collaboration of all the State Governments and UT Administrations. So far, a
total of around 6.04 crore candidates have been enrolled and 5.13 crore have been trained, out of which 3.80 crore candidates have been certified by
the 3rd party Certifying Agencies.

The key recommendations of the 3rd party evaluation Committee for PMGDISHA are as under:

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 ➢ PMGDISHA training has had a formidable impact on the use of ICT and other forms of digital media (please refer Page no. 86-87 of Impact
Assessment report).
➢ PMGDISHA is an unique scheme due to its mass scale and use of remotely proctored examination.
➢ Women participation is very large and their inclusion at the rural level will open up the path for the learning of the whole family.
➢ 18% fund used in SCSP, 12% for TSP and 11% for NER have made sure the empowerment of weaker sections. (please refer page no. 199 of
Impact Assessment report)
➢ COVID 19 has put an unprecedented situation of uncertainty even in rural India. Digital initiatives have made a lot of things function even in
the time of complete lockdown. Right from the banking systems, e-governance systems and PDS were aided immensely because of the
availability of online processes. People in the rural areas have continued with their livelihood with the help of digital systems helping
procure their producet, doorstep financial services, information gathering among other thing using digital technologies. The need of
programs like PMGDISHA has become a necessity in times of such paradigm shifts in new environments. Understanding digital tools & ICT
and using them effectively is the need of the hour and has proved as the saviour for the current crisis in supporting economic and social
activities.
➢ Extension and expansion of the scheme is recommended. The scheme has the capacity to aid India in achieving its 5 trillion dollar milestone
by the means of rural grassroots level empowerment.

Further the Sectoral Groups of Secretaries (SGoS) has listed PMGDISHA scheme in its Vision Document and have recommended a cumulative target
of 9 crore beneficiaries to be achieved till FY2024-25.

Comments of HRD Division:The 3rd party evaluation Committee has recommended a total of Rs. 3550 crore for the next 05 years (FY 2020-21 to FY
2024-25) for the Manpower Development Scheme. It may be noted that the fund requirement for training of 6.5 Lakhs IT professionals in emerging
technologies under FutureSkills PRIME programme was not included in the said proposed outlay (i.e. Rs. 3550 Cr). Now, HRD Division is proposing to
merge of Digital India Manpower Development Schemes and Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (PMGDISHA) scheme for ease of
operation as both of the schemes. Hence, the detail of revised proposed outlay for next 05 years (FY 2021-22 to FY 2025-26) for the Capacity Building
& Skill Development Scheme (Manpower Development Scheme including PMGDISHA) is as under (For year wise breakup of the said outlay refers at
para 5 above):
(Rs. in crore)
Division Schemes
Total Outlay for 5 year
Scheme/Project Name Proposed Target Proposed GIA
Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme Phase I Rs. 1980 Crore for on-
& 1,150 283 going/new
HRD
Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme Phase II projects/schemes under
Programmes
Scheme for Financial Assistance for setting up of the HRD
1,25,000 50
Electronics & ICT Academies Activities/Schemes/proj
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 FutureSkills PRIME programme 6,25,000 325 ects and Rs. 1800 Crore
Chips to Startup (C2S) Programme 85,000 250 for the PMGDISHA for
Information Security Education and Awareness digital literacy in rural
1,50,000 332 India which includes the
Project Phase III
Schemes for Skill Development in ESDM Sector 2,50,000 300 remaining outlay of
Work Based Learning (WBL) 4,530 51 PMGDISHA
Capacity building for Human Resource
Development in Unmanned Aircraft System 42,560 89
(Drone and related Technology)
Development of North-Eastern Region by
enhancing the Training/ Education capacity in the
80,000 50
Information, Electronics & Communication
Technology (IECT) Area
More than 5 new
Setting up of new NIELIT Centres/ Extension
NIELIT Centres/ 50
Centers
Extension Centers
Other ongoing /new Project -- 200
Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan 4.5Crore 1800
IT for Masses Projects to improve the capabilities, access to opportunities and empowerment of weaker
(Incl. sections by Capacity Building, Training programme, IT infrastructure creation and
157
SCSP/TSP Entrepreneurship in ICT domain
Scheme)
Internet Projects for policy formulation and futuristic research in Internet Governance
33
Governance

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 ✓ Setting up of Wi-Fi enabled campus network by ERNET India.
✓ Strengthening ICT Infrastructure in Himachal Pradesh University
✓ Optical Wireless Access Network for Rural and, Urban Communication.
✓ New projects on E-Infra on Wi-Fi, software defined networks, network function
virtualization, virtual cloud desktop, database as a service, Network as a Service, Single
e-Infrastructure Sign On, shared file storage, Data Centre Networking, E-Infra for Next Generation network 64
backbones, Optical Networking Technologies, Internet of Things and AI for societal
applications.

a) Rollout of Online Labs (OLabs) for schools

e-Learning b) Setting up ICT Infrastructure in Govt. School familiarized usage of personalized adaptive 24
learning in NE States
Total 4058

9. Major changes/departure proposed from earlier scheme along with justification

Refer to detail at para 13 below

11. Major changes in costing norms, if any

Refer to detail at para 13 below

12. Convergence architecture with other Central Government Schemes

The areas being catered in the scheme do not have any major overlapping issues with any of the Central Government Scheme

13. Rationale for continuation

The Capacity Building & Skill Development Scheme (Digital India Manpower Development Schemes/Projects including PMGDISHA) would
comprise of the following activities/ programmes:

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 A. Human Resource Development (HRD) Programmes/ Activities
B. IT for Masses Programme
C. Internet Governance
D. e-Infrastructure Projects
E. e-Learning
F. PMGDISHA
Activities/programmes wise rationale for continuation for next 5 years (FY 2021-22 to 2025-26) for the ongoing Schemes/projects under Capacity
Building & Skill Development Scheme (Digital India Manpower Development Schemes/Projects including PMGDISHA Scheme) is given below:

A. Human Resource Development (HRD) Programmes/Activities: HRD initiatives undertaken by MeitY caters to the capacity building/training
requirements at post-graduate level, graduate level, niche areas, vocational/skill development pertaining to electronics & IT industry and the
division has also initiated programmes for vulnerable groups including women, SC/ST communities, besides creation/ strengthening of
facilities at backward areas especially in North East Region. The Skill Development activities of the MeitY are primarily being taken up by its
two autonomous societies viz. National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT previously known as DOEACC) and
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC). In addition, the various organizations / attached offices under the Department viz.
ERNET India, Media Lab Asia, CSC E-Governance Services India Limited, STQC, NIC etc. are also engaged in capacity building/ training of various
stakeholders. Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) assigns a skilling target to MeitY each year.

The following skilling targets are proposed/trained in five years (FY 2021-22 to FY 2025-26):

Year Proposed Target

2021-22 4.12 Lakh (Certified/Achieved)
2022-23 5.5 Lakh
2023-24 6.8 Lakh
2024-25 8.5 Lakh
2025-26 10.5 Lakh
Total 35.42 Lakh

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B. Justification for project under IT for Masses Programme and Fee reimbursement under ‘Special component plan for SC’ and ‘Tribal Area
Sub-Plan’: IT for Masses is the only exclusive programme of MeitY for Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribes, Women (EWS) beneficiaries, Senior
Citizens, Differently-abled and Minorities. It mainly aims to improve the capabilities, access to opportunities and empowerment of weaker sections by
Capacity Building, Training programme, IT infrastructure creation, Deployment of Tools and Entrepreneurship creation in ICT domain. Further, as the
Government allocates funds for Scheduled Castes, Tribal Sub-Plan (TSP) and Gender budgeting, it is essential to initiate key programmes and projects
for the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Women, Senior Citizens, Differently-abled, Economically Weaker Section (EWS) and Minorities. India is
looking at Information Technology not just for economic transformation but for social transformation as well, by focusing on inclusion, empowerment
and bridging the digital divide. In this direction, the major emphasis is to bring ease and improve the quality of life of the underserved and un-served
segments of the country through Digital Inclusion. Under digital inclusion, the main goal shall be faster, sustainable and more inclusive growth with a
focus on underprivileged to improve their capabilities, access to opportunities, empowerment of weaker sections mainly SC, ST, Women (EWS)
beneficiaries, Senior Citizens, Differently-abled, and Minorities. The proposed target to be achieved in five years (FY 2022-23 to FY 2026-27) is as
under:

FY/ Target 2021-22 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26

20,7559 17,559 25000 40,000 55,000 70,000

C. Internet Governance (IG): Under Internet Governance two projects are ongoing. The projects will enhance India’s participation in multiple
international fora and also strengthen domestic policy related to internet. These projects would lead India to become a model Centre and provide thought
leadership in DNS and DNS security related technologies. The project will improve the security, stability, and understanding of the Internet DNS
infrastructure in India by advanced Internet Operations research. The project strengthen the internal DNS infrastructure of the country. The issues of
High Latency and insecure DNS resolution, Low DNS traffic visibility, High Transnational Routing Detours, Less resiliency for disaster situation and
Mitigating Single point of failure in disaster are being addressed through the projects.
More over projects are being formulated to realize multilingual internet for enhancing internet accessibilty, building up self reliant internet infrastructure
for resilient Internet. An institutional mechanism is being created to provide strategic direction and advice on strengthening mechanisms for India to play
a well-coordinated role in Internet Governance at the domestic, regional and international level which is of utmost importance for Internet Governance in
India.

For the next five years MeitY would be focusing on the following broad core areas in order to strengthen India’s position in Internet Governance:

➢ Building Trust/ Security/ Stability/Scalability/Reliability/Availability

➢ Institutionalization of Internet Governance in India
➢ Equity and promoting ease of access through the enablement and proliferation of Multilingual Internet
➢ Diversity/Equity of representation of India in Global Policy making bodies and forum

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Budget: An outlay of Rs. 33 Crore is envisaged for the existing as well as new projects for the next 5 years. The project under Internet Goverance needs
to be continued to achieve the envisaged outcome of the projects.

D- Justification for continuation under Infrastructure Projects: E-Infrastructure is the key enabler for the information and knowledge society. To
sustain the growth of Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) there is a continuous need to invest in quality infrastructure, promote R&D
efforts, Optical Networking Technologies, E-Infra for Next Generation network backbones & Network Management,Internet and broadband
technologies etc. The following key project are being implemented in e-Infrastructure Division:

(i) The scope of the project “Setting up of Wi-Fi enabled campus network at 4 Universities is to create a closed campus network in the
University, for providing internet/intranet access to students, staff, teachers, faculty, visitors etc. This project leverages NKN link as backhaul
connectivity which will increase utilization of NKN bandwidth. The initiatives of DoT wrt Public Wi-Fi are mostly related to public places.
(ii) In the project “Setting up of VSAT connectivity for internet/intranet access North Eastern states” connectivity is being provided to schools
where no other form of connectivity is present.
(iii)The project titled “Optical Wireless Access Network for Rural and Urban Communication” is an R&D project and supported with an
objective to explore feasibility to provide Optical Wireless(OW) connectivity for Rural and Urban Communication scenarios. Under OW
connectivity for rural as a prototype an end to end, bidirectional last mile access link for rural areas shall be demonstrated, which can support a
downstream and upstream data rate upto 10 Mbps. Under OW connectivity for urban a hybrid LiFi-WiFi test shall be deployed which
complements existing Wi-Fi deployment. The simulations are being done under the project and being tested at lab level/premise of the
implementing agency.

i) Setting up Wi-Fi enabled campus network at Patna University: The key objectives are as under:
▪ To set up and create Model Wi-Fi enabled Campus Network at Patna University as a Proof of Concept with tier-3 architecture upgraded to 10
Gigabit Fiber optic redundant backbone
▪ Controller based Wi-Fi Network with Security and Centralized Monitoring & Management Systems
▪ High speed Wireless access to Internet and Intranet resources using Access points
▪ Improvement of delivery of student-centric services, employee performance and efficiency &real-time access to information
Status: The field survey, finalisation of architecture and specification was completed. Tender was floated on GeM for creation of Wi-Fi network across
Patna University. Letter of credit was issued to the vendor. The total outlay of the project is Rs. 7.53 Cr out of which Rs. 1.70 Cr has been released.
Justification for Continuation:
The Work related to survey, designing of Architecture, finalisation of specification, bid process have been completed, Installation will be completed by
end of March 2023. Continuation is needed for Operation and Maintenance phase.
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ii) Strengthening ICT Infrastructure in Himachal Pradesh University: The key objectives are as under:
▪ The objective of the project is to provide Wi-Fi connectivity to new academic buildings, girls and boys hostels, VC Office, PRC building, health
centre, etc.,
▪ To develop efficient scheme for university evaluation system for speedy result declaration using Scanners, Cutters and Cloud Hosting,
▪ To prepare a database of evaluators ready to evaluate the answer sheets in an online mode
▪ To develop an online system for evaluators and examiners to evaluate the answer sheets and automatic preparation of Awards Sheets.
Status: On Screen Examination System had started in July 2021 and has been successfully implemented, evaluation has been done, results have been
published and re-evaluation can be done.
The total outlay of the project is Rs. 1.50 Cr out of which Rs. 1.35 Cr has been released.
Justification for Continuation:
Most of the objective have been met. Continuation is needed for deployment of Wi-Fi in next 3 months.
iii) Optical Wireless Access Network for Rural and Urban Communication: The key objectives are as under:
▪ The objective of the project is to provide optical wireless connectivity for rural and urban communication scenarios.
▪ Designing the Relay Broadcast Unit (RBU)
▪ Designing the Rooftop Receiver Unit (Solar or photodiode) and indoor communication link.
▪ Integration and Demonstration on an in-campus test bed.
Status: Designing of the handover relay to transfer data to indoor communication link completed. Demonstration of bidirectional link based on solar or
photodiode on an in-campus test bed.Optical transreceiver have been successfully tested in lab. The total outlay of the project is Rs. 1.39 Cr out of
which Rs. 0.95 Cr has been released. An outlay of Rs. 64 crores is envisaged for the existing as well as new scheme for the next 5 years. The project
under E-Infrastructure needs to be continued upto its logical conclusion so that the envisaged outcome/objectives could be achieved.

E- Justification for continuation of the project under e-Learning: E-Learning activities must be continued as one of the thrust areas under MeitY.
The broad activities under e-Learning could include development of tools and technologies to promote e-learning in the country; platforms for enhanced
learning; cost effective delivery; flexibility of learning at the convenience of the learner and delivery of uniform quality contents, besides promotion of
collaborative learning among distributed learners; re-usability of the content etc.An outlay of Rs. 24 crore is envisaged for the existing as well as new
scheme for the next 5 years

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Project under e-Learning are as under:

i) Justification for project Olabs NextG (OLabs Next Generation): OLabs NextG is jointly funded by MeitY and MoE, will cover 500 new OLabs
covering Science, Mathematics, Entrepreneurship, Computer Science, Social Science, Indian Sign Language, Hindi and Sanskrit for classes VI-XII
together with upgradation of existing 173 labs using latest tools/technologies. Further, OLabs NextG includes translating of 500 labs from English to
Hindi and to translate 237 new Physics, Chemistry, Math and Biology, to Marathi and Malayalam. Further, the Labs developed in Olabs NextG will be
available for access via online and will be integrated in existing OLabs website – www.olabs.edu.

Under the project literature Study for initial set of labs has been completed, Subject wise literature study, exploration done and requirement gathering for
initial list of labs has been done from NCERT Books/Manuals, NEP 2020 recommendations, Identification of 25 Labs has been done for subjects
Mathematics, Social Science and Language, 5 Labs in Mathematics, 5 Labs in Social Science and 4 Labs in Language has been completed. New version
of Android App for OLabs 1.0 Labs has been developed and hosted on MSeva App Store) - https://apps.mgov.gov.in/details?appid=1627.

The project needs to be continued upto its logical conclusion so that the envisaged outcome/objectives could be achieved.

ii) Justification for project NER Region: Setting up ICT Infrastructure in Govt. School familiarized usage of personalized adaptive" by ERNET
India: The objective of the project is to set up an advanced Digital ICT lab Infrastructure in 40 Govt. School in 8 NE states by creating an eco-
system of personalized adaptive learning using the latest tools and technologies viz advance visualization tools using Virtual Reality and
Interactive Digital Boards. The ERNET India has been assigned to set up the advanced Digital ICT lab Infrastructure in 40 Govt. The duration

Project is 1.5 Years.

The project is to enable both teachers and students with future trends of teaching and learning technology. It will enhance the teaching tools, pedagogy
techniques and also to increase the learning opportunity for students. It will have a teacher-student seamless communication and vast knowledge base for
topic on a click. It will also have a power of advance visualization tools to provide deeper understanding of topic and a chance of exploring topic into
new dimensions. The project is intended to achieve “quality teaching through latest technology” and also realising the concept of DIGITAL INDIA to its
actual sense. The project is intended to bridge the digital divide between the urban and rural areas by facilitating and imparting school education with the
use of smart teaching aid equipment’s. The project needs to be continued upto its logical conclusion so that the envisaged outcome/objectives could be
achieved.

F- Justification for continuation of Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (PMGDISHA): The PMGDISHA Scheme is very much
relevant to bridge the digital divide in the rural India. The Scheme is intended to empower the rural citizens by literating them digitally through trainings
so that they become computer savvy and be able to make digital payments, able to send and receive emails, browse internet, access Government
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Services, search for information etc. Also, as COVID -19 has came up with unprecedented situation of uncertainty even in rural India, hence, scheme
like PMGDISHA helped rural India to cope up with such situations.

The Sectoral Groups of Secretaries (SGoS) (FY 2019-20 to FY 2024-25) has listed PMGDISHA scheme in its Vision Document and have recommended
a target of 9 crore beneficiaries to be achieved till FY2024-25. The priorities for the next 5 years w.r.t. spreading digital literacy across the country are as
under:
➢ Scaling-up of mass awareness on PMGDISHA
➢ Adoption of various mechanisms- Adoption of various mechanisms to disseminate information regarding the scheme to the intended beneficiaries
such as word of mouth publicity; online, print & electronic media including posters, banners social media etc to be done by adopting various
mechanisms
➢ Corporate Social Responsibility- Enhance CSR involvements /activities to increase the reach in remote location and as well as certification
➢ Use of local Doordarshan (DD) and All India Radio (AIR) channels for creating awareness and imparting actual training at the ground level
➢ Awareness through local newspapers and social media
➢ Emphasizing more on Workshops, awareness campaigns in schools, local institutes and colleges etc
➢ Engaging Rural schools for training and examination of candidates in order to penetrate the inner most regions of the country.

The proposed target to be achieved in five years (FY 2021-22 to FY 2025-26) is as under:

FY/ Target 2021-22 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26

4.5 Cr 0.70 Cr 0.60 Cr 1.0 Cr 1.0 Cr 1.20 Cr
An outlay of Rs. 1800 crore is envisaged for the existing as well as new scheme for the next 5 years

The details of ISEA Phase-III can be seen at Annexure-A-I.

14. Proposed output/outcomes year-wise

Year wise proposed target of the projects/schemes of Capacity Building & Skill Development Scheme are as under:

Project/Scheme Name Total Target 2021-22 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26

(Achieved)
Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme 1150 208* 230 230 230 230
Electronics & ICT 1,50,000 27525 22,475 30,000 35,000 35,000
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Academies (Achieved)
SMDP-C2SD) 85,000 10,000 17000 17000 17000 24000
& (Achieved in SMDP-
Chips to Startup (C2S) C2SD)
Programme

Information Security 1,50,000 13,400 25,000 30,000 35,000 46,600

Education and Awareness (ISEA II)
(ISEA) Project (II&III)
Schemes for Skill 2,50,000 46,191 50,000 50,000 50,000 53,809
Development in ESDM
Sector
Work Based Learning 4520 -- 1130 1130 1130 1130
(WBL)
Capacity building for 42560 -- 10,640 10,640 10,640 10,640
Human Resource
Development in
Unmanned Aircraft
System (Drone and related
Technology)
Development of North- 80,000 10,000 10,000 20,000 20,000 20,000
Eastern Region by
enhancing the Training/
Education capacity in the
Information, Electronics &
Communications
Technology (IECT) Area
Schemes for Setting up of Daman, Ayodhya,GOA, Shimla Gujarat A new Daman,
new NIELIT Centres Dimapur, Lakshdweep Center as Dimapur,
/Extension Centers Bikaner, per the Bikaner,
Puducherry need Puducherry
Future Skills PRIME 120000 130000 130000 145000
6,25,000 1,20,200**
programme

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 IT for Masses Programme 207559 17559 25000 40,000 55,000 70,000
Fee reimbursement under 1,11,309 6,309 22,500 25,000 27,500 30,000
‘Special component plan
for SC’ and ‘Tribal Area
Sub-Plan’
Pradhan Mantri Gramin 4.5 Cr 0.70 Cr 0.60 Cr 1.0 Cr 1.0 Cr 1.20 Cr
Digital Saksharta Abhiyan
(PMGDISHA)

*Full-time PhD candidates pursuing PhD as on Apr 1, 2021 in Phase I of the scheme.

The total budget outlay for the new Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme is Rs. 481.93 Crore for 9 years to achieve the envisaged target. However, Rs. 283 crore
would be required for implementation of the scheme during FY 2022-23 to 2026-27.

**A total of 3,52,330 candidates have been enrolled in aligned and non-aligned courses, out of which 1,20,200 candidates have completed the courses.

15. Sunset Date

The projects/schemes under the Capacity Building & Skill Development Scheme (Digital India-Manpower Development Scheme including Pradhan
Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (PMGDISHA))are expected to be of a maximum duration of 05 years (FY 2021-22 to FY 2025-26)

16. Details of posts created for the Scheme (Regular/Contractual separately) and the number of persons engaged against them with annual
financial implications

Not Applicable

17. Any additional posts proposed to be created with annual financial implication

Not Applicable

18. Comments of other stakeholders including Ministries/Departments/ NITI Aayog and response thereon (in a tabular form)

The EFC note on continuing schemes under Digital India programme beyond March 31, 2021, was circulated for inter-ministerial consultations. The
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scheme-wise comments / suggestions were received from Ministries / Departments and the response on the same from Programme Division are placed at
Annexure-C-Overall Inter-ministerial Consultations.

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II. Electronic Governance Scheme (including EAP Projects)

E-Governance Division runs the scheme called Electronic Governance as a sub-scheme under the Digital India Programme. Electronic Governance is a
Central Sector Scheme and aims at enabling digital infrastructure, digital services, and digital empowerment. The details are as follows:

PART - B

1. Name of the scheme

Electronic Governance: A sub-Scheme under Digital India Programme.

2. Objectives of the scheme

The Digital India programme in the last few years has changed the digital profile of India. So far, Digital India has significantly contributed in
digital transformation of India. By adopting citizen centric approach in delivering services with latest technology, the way of governance has
changed remarkably in rural area. However, transforming the entire rural populace into a digitally empowered society under this flagship
programme is a huge challenge especially in remote areas. To deal with it, Digital India has emphasized on use of most advanced ICT by
leveraging various existing infrastructures in an integrated manner that may lead to drive processes to their desirable output in minimum
timeframe with almost zero scope of manipulation and minimum operability. E-Governance is a sub-Scheme under Digital India Programme
which consist of various projects related to development of Digital Infrastructures such as State Wide Area Network(SWAN), National data
Centre(NDC) & State Data Cenres(SDC), Megh Raj-Govt. of India Cloud initiative, Secure email services for GoI, PRAGATI VC 2.0, Digital
Platforms such as MyGov, Digital Locker, e-Sign, e-Hospital, National Data Highway, UMANG, NCOG, Open Government data, e-Taal, e-
Governance Standards & Guidelines, delivery of services through CSC, web, Kiosks & Mobile platform, Digital Village and Capacity Building
programme etc.

The broad objective of the Electronics Governance scheme is to provide digital infrastructure for delivery of e-services.

Key Components of e-Governance are as follows:

(i) Integrated Service Delivery Platform

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 (ii) Mission Mode Projects (MMP): Technical supports to 44 MMPs
(iii) Core ICT Infrastructure

• National & State Data Centre and Cloud (MeghRaj)

• State-Wide Area Network (SWAN)
• Common Services Centers (CSCs)
• State Portal and State Service Delivery Gateway (SSDG)
• Digital platforms
• Mobile Platform (Apps)

(iv) Supporting Components

• Core Policies
• Standards
• Awareness & Communication
• Capacity Building Programme

3. Background of the scheme

The journey of e-Governance started in India in late 1970’s. Initiatives were taken by some central Government Departments as well as State
Governments to implement IT based system to improve the delivery of services. For the first time, e-Governance at national level encompassing all
Central Ministries/ Departments and all States / UTs was conceived in shape of the National E-Governance Plan (NeGP) in 2003, by the Ministry of
Electronics and IT (formerly called Department of Information Technology (DIT)) and the Department of Administrative Reform & Public
Grievances (DAR&PG) and received in-principle approval at the level of the Prime Minister in November 2003. The Cabinet Note on National e-
Governance Plan was finally approved in May 2006 with 27 Mission Mode Projects (MMPs). The NeGP was a centrally sponsored scheme
implemented by MeitY wherein funds were provided to each State / UT to develop common digital infrastructure, to develop and offer digital
services and to promote capacity building within and outside the Government organizations. The portfolio of MMPs under NeGP was further
increased to 31 MMPs in 2011 and then to 44 MMPs in 2015.

National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) initiated in 2006, has been subsumed under Digital India programme which was approved on 20th August,
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 2014 and formally launched on 1st July, 2015 by Hon’ble Prime Minister of India. Under National e-Governance Plan, core infrastructure
components such as State Data Centres (SDCs), State Wide Area Networks (SWANs), Common Services Centres (CSCs), State e-Governance
Service Delivery Gateway (SSDGs), and Capacity Building are being implemented. Now, all the schemes/ projects are being taken up by the
Ministry under Digital India Programme.

Digital India is a flagship programme of the Government of India designed to transform India into a knowledge economy and digitally empowered
society by realizing the full potential of fast-paced technological advancement. The digital interventions have been introduced with the firm resolve
to spearhead economic and social transformation with expanded digital access and outreach. To provide momentum to the digital revolution India
has embarked on, five strategic pillars have been identified for a technology-empowered ‘New India’. These include platform driven digital services,
robust digital Infrastructure, holistic digital inclusion, enhanced digital confidence and IT Services and Manufacturing driven digital economy.

Digital India architecture has transformed governance processes for delivery of services. Digital India weaves together a large number of ideas and
thoughts into a single comprehensive vision to ensure that benefits of development reach each and every citizen of the country in equal measure
along with the need for faster and timely service delivery. This vision is centred on three key areas, namely Infrastructure as Utility to Every
Citizen, Governance & Services on Demand and Digital Empowerment of Citizens. Digital India aims to provide the much needed thrust to the
nine pillars of growth areas, namely Broadband Highways, Universal Access to Phones, Public Internet Access Programme, e-Governance:
Reforming Government through Technology, e-Kranti - Electronic Delivery of Services, Information for All, Electronics Manufacturing, IT for Jobs
and Early Harvest Programmes.

(i). Electronic Governance Scheme caters majorly to the following pillars of Digital India Programme:

■ Pillar 3: Public Internet Access Program, CSC 2.0 has been implemented which aims to facilitate easier access of services to the citizens.
■ Pillar 4: e-Governance: Reforming Government through Technology and pillar 5: e-Kranti- Electronic delivery of services envisages
provisioning of various e-Governance services in the country.
■ Pillar 6: Information for all envisages provisioning of online hosting of information & documents and to facilitate collaborative and
participative governance. The existing/ ongoing e-Governance initiatives would be suitably revamped taking due cognizance of scope
enhancement, process re-engineering, use of integrated & interoperable systems and deployment of emerging technologies like cloud & mobile
platform would be undertaken to enhance the delivery of Government services to citizens.

(ii). With a clear vision, the government is pushing ahead the e-Governance initiatives for consolidated delivery of eServices. e-Governance has
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enabled online services that does not require direct interaction of citizens with government offices and brings transparency, accountability, and
efficiency in the delivery of services. It has also enabled non-government service providers like CSCs to offer e-Services that have improved quality
of services at low cost in the locality of the citizens. Digital India has led to significant growth in e-Services across projects/ schemes. The digital
footprint has gone up with Aadhaar seeding and Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT). Initiatives like UMANG and DigiLocker have further enabled
easy access to services through the mobile platform. The number of e-Services and their access by beneficiaries has increased immensely in past five
years.

(iii). There are several transformational digital initiatives undertaken under Digital India Programme, that include Jan Dhan Yojana, Aadhaar, Mobile
(JAM), Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT), Government e-Marketplace (GeM), National Centre of Geo-Informatics (for GIS based decision support),
Digital Locker, e-Sign, National Scholarship Portal, Digital Payments (BHIM, BHARAT-QR Code, PayGov, Public Finance Management System –
PFMS), Jeevan Pramaan etc. The MyGov Citizen Engagement Platform is the largest such platform across the World. These initiatives are able to
ensure easy, effective and efficient governance & services to citizens.

(iv). The Electronic Governance Scheme comprises of the various projects. List of key projects under the Electronic Governance scheme, which
need to be continue is given at para-5 of EFC Note {please refer details of year-wise (2023-24 to 2026-27) funds requirements for various projects}.

(v). Electronics delivery of services - To improve the effectiveness of the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP), Ministry of Electronics and
Information Technology has initiated “e-Kranti- Electronic Delivery of Services” under Digital India programme with the vision “Transforming e-
Governance for Transforming Governance”. e- Kranti aims to ensure a Government wide transformation by delivering all Government services
electronically to the citizens through integrated and interoperable systems via multiple modes, while ensuring efficiency, transparency & reliability of
such services at affordable costs. This will ensure minimum Government and maximum Governance. A large number of initiatives have been
undertaken by Government for promotion of digital technology application across the country. Under e-Kranti, a total of 44 Mission Mode Projects
(MMPs) are being implemented by various Central Ministries/Departments, States, and State Departments. These MMPs are providing
services in the areas such as education, healthcare, agriculture, justice, land records, social benefits, local governments, rural development, women &
child development, legislature, local language, transport, financial services, Income Tax (IT), Passport, Posts, etc.

(vi). Establishment of Common Digital Infrastructure - e-Kranti has led to establishment of necessary digital infrastructure namely State Data
Centre (SDC for application development hosting), State-wide Area Network (SWAN for connectivity), State Portal, State Service Delivery Gateway
(for integrated service in a State), MeghRaj (Government of India’s Cloud for on demand infrastructure) and Common Services
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Centres (CSCs for services near locality) across the country. State Portal has been implemented in all 36 States / UTs, State-Wide Area Network has
been implemented in 34 States/ UTs, State Data Centre has been implemented in 30 States / UTs, Cloud enablement have been done for 19 SDCs and
SSDGs has been implemented in 26 States / UTs. For SWAN, funding patterns between Meity and State/UT’s share was 80%:20% for Himalayan
States, 100%:0% for UTs and 50%:50% for mainland States. For SDC, GoI support was to cover the entire cost of establishment, operation and
maintenance of the State Data Centre for a period of five years on 100% grant-in aid basis. The financial assistance being provided to the States
included refurbishing of the physical space to the Data Centre requirements including back-up power supply (UPS and DG sets) and air-conditioning
requirements. The cost of monitoring of performance under SLAs was also covered by GoI support, including cost of engaging a third party
for such monitoring/audit of the SDC.

(vii). Portfolio of Digital Services - The rollout of mission mode projects and e-Governance initiatives under NeGP has led to delivery of 4027+
services as on July, 2022. The Passport, Income Tax, Road and Transport, Indian Railway Ticketing, MCA21, etc showcased the transformational
capability of ICT and improved the service delivery significantly. E-District Mission Mode Project and Common Services Centres have resulted in the
bouquet of basic services becoming available to common citizens in their locality in rural areas and in villages.

(viii). Core Policies and Guidelines for sustainable development - Government has formulated various policies/framework to promote e-
Governance in India. The e-Governance standards have been developed and published to promote interoperability and integration among
Government applications, systems and databases. The policies namely National Policy on Universal Electronic Accessibility, Policy on Use of IT
Resources, Email Policy, Policy on Adoption of Open Source Software for Government of India, National Policy on Software Products, Application
Development & Re-Engineering Guidelines for Cloud Ready Applications, Framework for Mobile Governance, Updation and Usage Policy for the
Sampark Database (IT platform for Messages), Open Data, India Enterprise Architecture (IndEA) framework, Digital Service Standard (DSS) etc are
enabling implementation of e-governance. The meta-data and data standards for 17 domains, Digital Service Standard, Localisation & Language
Technology Standard, Biometrics Standards, Quality Assurance Framework etc have been developed.

(ix). Digital Empowerment & awareness activities – More than 8,000 government officials from Centre, State/UTs have been trained in Digital
India /e-Governance programmes. More than 110 webinars were organized with a viewership of 15 lakhs persons. State eMission Teams have been
deployed in 35 States / UTs. Communication and Awareness activities are done through electronic, print and social media.

(x). It may be noted that after 9 years of continuous financial support from the centre, States will now have to fund digital infrastructure projects on its
own. When the NeGP was approved these core projects – SDC, SWAN, CSCs, and SSDG – were completely sponsored by MeitY. In 2015, the

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government delinked NeGP scheme from financial support of the Centre as a result of changes introduced following recommendations of 14th
Finance Commission. Now the States are on their own. “Electronics Governance” remains only as a part of the Central Sector Scheme under
Digital India Programme. The withdrawal of funding to States was affected in wake of the recommendation of Fourteenth Finance Commission,
which provided for devolution of 42 percent of the Central taxes to the States, up from 32 percent. The withdrawal of funding support for the NeGP
is likely to widen the gap between the better performing and lagging States in e-governance.

(xi). The withdrawal of funding to the States is also likely to accentuate issues of standardisation and interoperability among the States and Union
Territories (UTs), as the Centre will have little say in State IT projects. Lack of interoperability will hamper the electronic sharing of information
among States, adversely impacting the vision for a Digital India. Considering the lack of capacity in some States in contract and project management
of IT projects, the Centre should continue to help them with empanelment of efficient vendors and standard RFP templates which would help them in
choosing the right technology partner.

(xii). The “Electronic Governance Scheme” is a Central Sector Scheme with 100% funding, and the projects are implemented through designated
agencies of the States/Central Governments. The scheme has been in operation since inception of National e-Governance Plan(NeGP) and
has been expanding over the years to include various technological developmental activities in different sectors. After delinking from funding support
in 2015, the Department of Expenditure had allowed funding support to states/UTs for projects/schemes under Electronic Governance.

(xiii). The disparities among State level applications, among business architecture, among application architecture, among data architecture and
among technical architecture are posing problems of interoperability and integration and these problems would become more severe unless dedicated
support is provided to the States with regard to common application development, enterprise architecture and implementation including successful
replicable projects based on emerging technologies namely Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Internet of Things, Cloud, Analytics etc.
However, without dedicated funding support to Electronic Governance, MeitY is not able to move beyond technical and advisory support and is not
able to help States in implementing their e-governance initiatives of national importance.

(xiv). A third-party evaluation of the Central Sector Scheme “Electronic Governance” under Digital India Programme has been completed by the
Centre for Innovations in Public Systems(CIPS), Hyderabad. The Summary Report/ recommendation of the Third Party Evaluation of “Electronic
Governance” is enclosed separately. The evaluator has found the Scheme very effective for the speedy and holistic development of digital
transformation of India as majority of the ongoing projects are delivering or will deliver the intended and planned results/objectives. There have
been demands from States/UTs and other stakeholders for higher allocations under this scheme to undertake various e-Governance

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 initiatives of National/State importance. Hence, the Ministry proposes to continue “Electronic Governance” with enhanced outlays.

(xv). Further, Seven Groups of Ministers (GoM) were constituted in the wake of the spread of Covid-19, aiming to identify areas of intervention for
converting threats into an opportunity. The suggestions were sought to promote exports and to strengthen the Indian economy. To look after the
specific aspect of E-Governance and E-Education Group was mandated to suggest practical measures to enhance the reach of E-Governance and E-
Education in India. The Group of Ministers had several rounds of consultations and discussions with domain experts, Secretaries, CEOs of IT
promoting government agencies, and young officers from the field before submitting this final report about measures for E-Governance and E-
Education space. The Group recommended several steps and submitted an interim report on 26th May 2020. On 13th June 2020, Hon'ble PM Sh.
Narendra Modi Ji reviewed the progress of GoM, along with senior ministerial colleagues, and highlighted the areas of intervention for easing
citizens' lives and effective implementation of government welfare measures. The Final Report recommends priority areas for the Government to leap
in E-Governance & E-Education domain. The summary of recommendation of the Group of Minister on e-Governance & E- Education is attached at
enclosed separately.

(xvi). The projects under “Electronic Governance” which were under implementation during the 14th Finance Commission are proposed to be
continued during the next (15th) Finance Commission, as they are considered essential for development of digital infrastructure & e-Governance
initiatives of national importance and to bring technology parity at national level and to achieve sustainable socio-economic development through
digital infrastructure, digital services, digital empowerment and bridging the digital divide in each State/ UT.

4. Whether Central Sector (CS) scheme/Centrally sponsored scheme

A sub-Scheme under Digital India Programme-Central Sector Scheme.

5. Total Proposed outlay (Component-wise and Year-wise)

Projects funded by MeitY under e-Governance Scheme are non-recurring in nature. As on date, e-Gov Group, MeitY is implementing various
projects and more projects are likely to be initiated in the coming years. However, keeping in view the various factors, including limited budgetary
resources and capacity of implementing agencies, an budgetary outlay of Rs. 1932.15 Crore is proposed for ‘Electronics Governance including
Externally Aided Projects(EAP) for 15th FC period (2023-24 to 2026-27) to meet the liabilities of ongoing projects as per year-wise phasing given in
the Table below.

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 (Rs. Crore)
Estimated Budget requirement for Actual BE of Projection for Projection Projection Total fund
continuation of ongoing projects approved Expenditure FY 22-23 FY 23-24 for FY 24-25 for FY 25-26 requirement of
under e-Governance Scheme (including of FY 21-22 FY23-24 to FY25-
EAP) 26
1 2 3 4 5 6 (3+4+5)
316.78 525.00 900.97 651.09 380.09 1932.15

* Actual budgetary requirements will depend on pace of implementation by the implementing agencies and may be somewhat less/greater than the
estimated.

Details of year-wise (2023-24 to 2026-27) funds requirements for various projects under the Electronic Governance scheme, which need to be continue is
as follows:

S. No. Name of the project Budget Fund Project Project Year-Wise Funds requirements (Rs. in
Outlay (in released so initiation completion date Crores) for FY 2023-26
Rs. Crore) far (Cr.) date including 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26 Total
extension period
1 State Data Centre 1623.20 646.58 2006 39.23 0.00 0.00 39.23
2 NDC-NER 348.66 34.09 Sept, 2020 March, 2025 50.00 0.00 0.00 50.00
3 Collaborative Application 7.90 6.63 March,2015 March, 2023 1.27 0.00 0.00 1.27
Platform Development by
Opening the Source Code (Open
Forge)
4 User Experience (UX) / User 12.87 3.72 Jan,2022 Jan,2025 4.72 0.00 0.00 4.72
Interface (UI) for Websites
5 NCOG (under BISAG) 98.28 59.84 Dec, 2015 March, 2023 10.00 8.44 0.00 18.44
6 e-Governance Standards & 18.36 5.59 April, 2020 April, 2023 6.75 0.00 0.00 6.75
Guidelines

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7 To set-up IndEA Division at 42.52 10.57 March, 2019 Sept, 2023 11.08 0.00 0.00 11.08
NeGD
8 Implementation of National Data 51.84 17.75 Feb, 2020 Feb, 2025 9.55 9.52 10.61 29.68
Highway
9 Sign Language Accessibility for 2.56 1.24 October, 2020 April, 2023 0.45 0.00 0.00 0.45
e-Governance Services
10 MSDG Appstore 18.73 2.78 March, 2021 Feb, 2024 5.89 6.56 0.00 12.45
11 SWAN in A&N 15.62 12.96 25-06-2018 25-06-2023 2.66 0.00 2.66
12 SWAN J&K 72.22 44.34 17-06-2020 17-06-2025 6.97 6.97 6.97 20.91
13 SWAN Arunachal 64.22 36.51 25-09-2019 25-09-2024 8.31 8.31 0.00 16.62
14 SWAN Ladakh 25.87 9.82 4.01 4.01 4.01 12.03
15 Awareness and Communication 98.00 19.00 July, 2019 July, 2024 20.00 15.00 15.00 50.00
Plan for Digital India
16 Functioning of NeGD ( Phase- 50.00 15.14 Sept., 2021 Sept., 2024 18.23 0.00 0.00 18.23
III)
17 Universal Transparent Tracking 29.00 4.19 March, 2022 March, 2027 5.78 6.80 7.16 19.74
of Applications and Responses to
Applications (UTTARA)
18 Hiring and Budgetary support for 6.49 0.98 May,2021 May,2024 2.37 0.00 0.00 2.37
Young Professionals (YPs) at
DIC
19 PMU for eGovernance Index 2.42 1.15 12.03.2021 11.03.2023 1.27 0.00 0.00 1.27
20 e-Greetings portal and Sampark 60.00 8.00 April, 2020 March,2025 9.58 6.41 0.00 15.99
2.0
21 Common Services Centres 2.0 475.11 352.35 August,2015 March,2024 66.61 0.00 0.00 66.61
22 Open Government Data (OGD) 24.22
2.0 35.26 11.04 28.04.2020 28.04.2025 15.62 8.60 0.00
23 PRAGATI VC 2.0 47.09 30.85 26.11.2020 26.11.2025 9.56 6.68 0.00 16.24
24 Secure eMail Service for GoI 281.50 120.00 25.03.2022 25.03.2025 113.00 48.50 0.00 161.50

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25 Integrated Citizen Engagement 169.35
Platform (InCEP) by MyGov 245.70 40.46 July, 2021 March,2026 52.37 55.46 61.52
26 e-Sign Phase-II 20.00 9.00 March, 2021 March, 2025 4.06 2.81 0.00 6.87
27 Enhancement of NIC 412.98 150.00 March,2022 March,2025 112.46 150.53 0.00 262.99
National Cloud Services
28 Pilot Project- Implementation of 98.32 50.00 31.10.2018 31.03.2023 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Digital Village
29 AI- based predictive analysis of 0.35 0.17 March, 2021 March, 2024 0.09 0.00 0.00 0.09
visitors to public areas
30 e-Pramaan 2.0: Authentication 14.46 2.34 August, 2021 August, 2026 2.73 2.54 2.49 7.76
Enhanced
31 Aadhaar Data Vault as a Service 13.24 3.23 July, 2021 July, 2026 1.32 1.32 1.32 3.96
32 eGOVMMCASES – 1.15 0.88 March, 2022 September, 2024 0.24 0.03 0.00 0.27
Development of multimedia
cases with teaching notes on e-
Gov initiatives of GoI
33 Adaptive Assistive System for 1.04 0.52 Feb, 2022 Feb, 2025 0.42 0.10 0.00 0.52
the Moderate Mentally Disabled
Children
34 Conversational AI Platform for 10.20 0.50 March, 2022 March, 2026 2.24 2.44 2.76 7.44
delivery of UMANG/ Govt.
Services
35 IMedDesk: AI assisted health 2.00 0.00 August, 2022 August, 2024 1.08 0.00 0.00 1.08
care services framework
36 e-Taal 3.0 3.68 0.92 March, 2022 March,2025 0.92 0.92 0.00 1.84
37 Externally aided project(EAP) 700.00 360.42 May, 2011 25.00 25.00 25.00 75.00
38 Capacity Building scheme phase- 406.00 0.00 120.00 140.00 146.00 406.00
III (*DPR is under preparation)
39 UMANG Phase-II 97.45 0.00 21.00 23.10 25.40 69.50

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 40 DigiLocker Phase-II 0.00 15.00 17.00 18.00 50.00
(*Proposal yet to be submitted)
41 India Portal 2.0 38.43 0.00 9.42 7.65 8.00 25.07
42 National Single Sign-On (NSSO) 69.78 0.00 19.33 22.60 27.85 69.78
platform for GoI
43 Sandes 2.0 76.02 0.00 47.63 28.39 0.00 76.02
44 Nodal Monitoring & Promotion 21.85 0.00 5.93 6.12 6.18 18.23
agency for Web accessibility
compliance
45 Setting up of Digital India 57.53 0.00 15.00 14.71 10.00 39.57
Corporation Managed Cloud
Service Provider
46 GovDrive as a Service for 79.95 0.00 15.00 10.95 0.00 25.95
Government officials
47 CollabFiles Platform 12.26 0.00 6.82 3.62 1.82 12.26
Total 900.97 651.09 380.09 1932.15

Further, additional funds of Rs. 11,068 Crore (Eleven thousand and sixty-eight crore only) will also be required for Electronics Governance Scheme due
to consideration/ initiation of new project namely Data Centre and Cloud Promotion Scheme (DCCPS).

(i). Estimated Scheme outlay: ₹ 11,068 Crore (Eleven thousand and sixty-eight crore only). Breakup of proposed fiscal benefits from Central
Government are as follows:

Estimated Budget
Segment Type of Incentive Target Beneficiary
(₹ in Crore)
incentive on purchase of indigenous IT
Indigenous IT
equipment having higher Local Value DCO 8,250
equipment
Addition (LVA)

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 Estimated Budget
Segment Type of Incentive Target Beneficiary
(₹ in Crore)
Incentive is based on maximizing the usage
Non-IT equipment DCD 2,112
of RE and minimizing PUE
Research and Development for
Research and Development and Management of Open Any organization deemed
500
Development Stack Cloud Services and Setting up of appropriate by MeitY
Centre of Excellence (CoE)
Skill Development Institutes,
Capacity Building Training and Certification of Cloud and
NIELIT or any other MeitY
(Training & Data Centre Professionals, Manpower 100
organization deemed appropriate
Certification) development
by MeitY
This includes administrative and other expenses (Data Centre Facilitation Unit
Administrative (DCFU), Third Party Verification Agency (TPVA), Portal Development,
106
Expenses Maintenance & Operations, Travel, Capacity Building, Market Survey, Mid Term
Review, R&D, contingency, Scheme promotion, publicity, etc.)
Total Scheme Outlay (In Crore) ₹ 11,068
(Eleven thousand and sixty-eight crore only)

(ii). Proposed duration of Data Centre and Cloud Promotion Scheme (DCCPS): Total tenure of the scheme will be eight (8) years from the date of
notification. Scheme shall be open for receipt of applications for a period of one (1) year from the date of notification. The applicants can set up their
infrastructure (IT/ Non-IT) during the next two years or more from the date of approval of the proposal. The incentives under the scheme could be
claimed over a period of five (5) years from the date of approval of the proposal or later, but not exceeding the scheme tenure.

(iii). Current Status: Draft EFC memorandum on the Scheme was circulated for inter-Ministerial consultation in the Month of June 2021, Thereafter a
stakeholder consultation under the chairmanship of Hon’ble Minister of State (E&IT) was held at Chennai on 25 th February 2022. Based on the
inputs received a revised EFC memo has been prepared which will be submitted for the consideration and approval of Hon’ble Minister shortly.

6. Actual Expenditure of the ongoing scheme in last 3 years

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 Financial Year Name of the Scheme: Electronic Governance

Funds allocated (Rs. in Crore) Actual Expenditure (Rs. in Crore)

2018-19 425.00 421.65
2019-20 402.87 402.06
2020-21 415.82 404.99
2021-22 535.00 316.78

7. Approved output/outcome of ongoing scheme year wise and achievements (in a tabular form)

E-Governance is a sub-Scheme under Digital India Programme which consist of various projects related to development of Digital Infrastructures
such as State Wide Area Network(SWAN), National data Centre(NDC) & State Data Cenres(SDC), MeghRaj-Govt. of India Cloud initiative,
Secure email Services of Govt. of India, PRAGATI VC2.0, Digital Platforms such as MyGov, Digital Locker, e-Sign, e-Hospital, National Data
Highway, UMANG, NCOG, Open Government Data(OGD2.0), e-Taal, delivery of services through CSC, web, Kiosks & Mobile platform, Digital
Village and Capacity Building programme etc. Measurable indicators for some of the key projects are as follows:

Name of the project Outcome Indicators for outcome Achievements

S. N.
under the scheme
State Wide Area To establish SWAN in all Number of States in which 34 State Wide area Network have
1 been made operational
Network(SWAN) States/UTs SWAN is operational
State Data Cenres(SDC), To establish SDC in all Number of States in which 30 SDCs have been made
2 States/UTs SDC is operational operational

MeghRaj-Govt. of India Empanelment of cloud Number of empanelled cloud MeitY has empanelled 18 Cloud
3
Cloud initiative service providers service providers Service Providers
Secure e-mail Services for To provide email services to Number of email Ids Over 30 lakh Government
4 Govt. of India Central/State Govt. Officials created/functional for employees email ids/users created
Central/State Govt. Officials

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 Common Services To set up 2.5 lakh CSCs at Total functional CSCs in PAN There are total 4.94 lakh CSCs
Centre(CSC) least one in every Gram India as well as functional at are functional in PAN India, out
5 Panchayats of the country Gram Panchayat (GP) level. of them 3.89 Lakh CSCs are
functional at Gram Panchayat
(GP) level.
MyGov Citizen engagement platform Total number of citizen More than 2.35 Crore citizens are
6
registered on MyGov platform registered on the Platform
Open Government To provide proactive access Number of data set resources, The OGD India have 5,32,878
Data(OGD2.0) to Government owned number of Ministries/ dataset resources, 12,446 catalogs
shareable data along with its departments contributing the contributed by 247
7 usage information in data, Number of downloads, Ministry/Departments
open/machine readable etc.
format
Digital Locker Setting up of Digital Locker Total number of Digital lockers Over 11 Crore registered users,
setup over 510 Crore authentic
8
documents have been made
available to the citizen
UMANG Increased use of UMANG Number of services made 1,528 Services from Central and
services available on UMANG State Government departments on-
boarded on UMANG along with
9 20,558 BBPS utility services. 287
departments integrated with
UMANG having about 257+
crores transactions
e-Sign Increased use of eSign Empanelled agencies and No. Total e-Sign issued: 25.06 Crore
of e-Sign issued wherein CDAC issued 5.39 Cr. e-
Signs; More than 100 departments
10
integrated with some key clients
as NIC (e-office, SPARROW and
others), GST, EPFO, Tamil Nadu
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 Government, CeG Karnataka,
GOA DIT, IPPB, DGHR etc.
e-Hospital Seamless delivery of No. of hospitals onboarded on 751 hospitals have been on-
healthcare services eHospital and Online boarded one-Hospital. ORS has
11 Registration System(ORS) been adopted by 480 hospitals
across the country
Capacity Building To provide training for Number of Official trained. 8909 officers trained from Centre
12 Programme Central/State Govt Officials & State ( 5896 & 3013)
in the field of ICT.
National Center of Geo- Geographic Information Number of GIS application Total number of 560 Applications
13 Informatics (NCoG) System (GIS) based decision developed and made are operational
support system platform operational.
“Pilot Project- 700 Villages/GPs with at- Number of Gram Panchayats 700 Gram Panchayats
Implementation of Digital least one village/GP from (GP)/Villages covered. (GP)/Village have been covered
Village” each district of the State/UT for the delivery of
14 are covered for the delivery various services to the rural
of citizen centric services to citizens
the rural citizens

8. Existing and proposed funding pattern (in a tabular form) along with rationale

Electronic Governance is a sub-scheme under Central Sector Scheme namely Digital India Programme. All the Schemes and projects being
implemented under the scheme are funded primarily as Grant-in –Aid (GIA) and the same pattern is proposed to be continued.

9. Major findings of evaluation / outcome review and comments of the Ministry / Department on each observation of the scheme (Attach
evaluation report)
(a). The third-party evaluation for the “e-Governance” scheme had been entrusted to the Centre for Innovations in Public Systems(CIPS),
Hyderabad. The evaluator has found the Scheme very effective for the speedy and holistic development of Digital Infrastructure & services in the
country as majority of the ongoing projects are delivering or will deliver the intended and planned results/objectives.
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 (b). Further, Seven Groups of Ministers (GoM) were constituted in the wake of the spread of Covid-19, aiming to identify areas of intervention for
converting threats into an opportunity. The suggestions were sought to promote exports and to strengthen the Indian economy. To look after the
specific aspect of E-Governance and EEducation Group was mandated to suggest practical measures to enhance the reach of E-Governance and E-
Education in India. The GoM has submitted its final Report of on E-Governance & E- Education on 18.10.2020. The GoM acknowledged the
positive impact of E-Governance and E-Education in India and made recommendation on 12 action points, which are being implemented.

10. Major changes / departure proposed from earlier scheme along with justification

Electronic Governance’ is a Continuing Scheme. The scheme has been in operation since inception of National eGovernance Plan(NeGP) and has
been expanding over the years to include various technological developmental activities in different sectors.

The projects under “Electronic Governance” which were under implementation during the 14th Finance Commission are proposed to be continued
during the next (15th) Finance Commission, as they are considered essential for development of digital infrastructure & e-Governance initiatives of
national importance and to bring technology parity at national level and to achieve sustainable socio-economic development through digital
infrastructure, digital services, digital empowerment and bridging the digital divide in each State/ UT.

11. Major changes in costing norms, if any

No change. All the Schemes and projects being implemented under the scheme are funded primarily as Grant-in –Aid (GIA) and the same pattern
is proposed to be continued.

12. Convergence architecture with other central government schemes

There are no schemes/ sub-schemes being undertaken by Central Ministries/Departments which have significant outcome overlap with
the proposed scheme. In order to consolidate the outcomes and save public resources; State Ministries/ Departments may be urged to take
leverage the initiatives under the Electronic Governance scheme and take their benefits. Also, Ministries/ Departments will be consulted
on an ongoing basis to achieve convergence and avoid overlaps of the scheme with other e-Governance initiatives of the Central/ State
Governments.

13. Rationale for continuation

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 (i). Information Technology is very dynamic sector and most of the technology has shelf-life of two and half(2.5) years. Therefore, continuous
development is necessary. In 21st Century, the development and competitive advantage of a country is impacted by the technology advancement
in the society. In such a scenario, India or any of its States cannot afford to be a laggard or left behind in technological advancement.
(iii). The disparities among State level applications, among business architecture, among application architecture, among data architecture and among
technical architecture are posing problems of interoperability and integration and these problems would become more severe unless dedicated
support is provided to the States with regard to common application development, enterprise architecture and implementation including
successful replicable projects based on emerging technologies namely Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Internet of Things, Cloud,
Analytics etc. However, without dedicated funding support to Electronic Governance, MeitY is not able to move beyond technical and advisory
support and is not able to help States in implementing their e-governance initiatives of national importance.
(iv). A third-party evaluation of the Central Sector Scheme “Electronic Governance” under Digital India Programme has been completed by the
Centre for Innovations in Public Systems(CIPS), Hyderabad. The evaluator has found the Scheme very effective for the speedy and holistic
development of digital transformation of India as majority of the ongoing projects are delivering or will deliver the intended and planned
results/objectives. There have been demands from States/UTs and other stakeholders for higher allocations under this scheme to
undertake various e-Governance initiatives of National/State importance. Hence, the Ministry proposes to continue “Electronic
Governance” with enhanced outlays.
(v). Further, Seven Groups of Ministers (GoM) were constituted in the wake of the spread of Covid-19, aiming to identify areas of intervention for
converting threats into an opportunity. The suggestions were sought to promote exports and to strengthen the Indian economy. To look after the
specific aspect of E-Governance and E-Education Group was mandated to suggest practical measures to enhance the reach of E-Governance
and E-Education in India. The Group recommended several steps and, on 13th June 2020, Hon'ble Prime Minister reviewed the progress of
GoM, along with senior ministerial colleagues, and highlighted the areas of intervention for easing citizens' lives and effective implementation of
government welfare measures. The Final Report recommends priority areas for the Government to leap in E-Governance & E-Education domain.
(vi). The projects under “Electronic Governance” which were under implementation during the 14th Finance Commission are proposed to be
continued during the next (15th) Finance Commission, as they are considered essential for development of digital infrastructure & e-Governance
initiatives of national importance and to bring technology parity at national level and to achieve sustainable socio-economic development
through digital infrastructure, digital services, digital empowerment and bridging the digital divide in each State/ UT. The list of key projects
may be seen at para-5 of the EFC Note.

14. Proposed output/outcomes year-wise

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Proposed outcomes for some of the schemes are as follows:

S. N. Name of the project under the Indicator for outcome Targeted outcome
scheme Financial Year
2022-23 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26
1 Implementation of National Data No. of Published APIs 350 350 350 400
Highway (NDH)
No. of Transactions 6 Crore 6 Crore 7 Crore 5 Crore
2 eSign (Hastakshara) – No. of eSign Transactions 80 Lakhs 100 Lakhs 120 Lakhs 145 Lakhs
Phase II
3 MSDG Appstore – Revamping No. of apps to be hosted 90 100 - -
and Remodelling
4 Digital Locker No. of Digital Lockers to be 150 lakhs - - -
setup
5 UMANG No. of Services to be integrated 100 - - -
with UMANG
6 Secure e-mail Services for Govt. 42 Lakh 50 Lakh Users N/A N/A
To provide email services to
of Users
Central/State Govt. Officials
India
7 Common Services Centre (CSC) To set up 2.5 lakh CSCs at least 1800 1600 1500 1500
one in every Gram Panchayats
8 Open Government Data (OGD2.0) To provide proactive access to 1,20,000 1,30,000 1,40,000 1,50,000
Government owned shareable
data along with its usage
information in open/machine
readable format
9 Capacity Building Programme To provide training for 1000 1000 1000 1000
Central/State Govt Officials in the
field of ICT.
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10 e-Hospital and Online Registration No. of hospitals to be integrated 200 - - -
System (ORS) with e-Hospitals
No. of hospitals to be integrated 75 - - -
with ORS
11 MeghRaj-Govt. of India Empanelment of cloud 3 3 3 3
Cloud initiative service providers

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15. Sunset date

E-Governance is a sub-Scheme under Digital India Programme which consist of various projects related to development of Digital Infrastructures
such as State Wide Area Network (SWAN), National data Centre (NDC) & State Data Cenres(SDC), MeghRaj-Govt. of India Cloud initiative, e-
mail solution of Govt. of India, PRAGATI VC, Digital Platforms such as MyGov, Digital Locker, e-Sign, e-Hospital, National Data Highway,
UMANG, NCOG, Open Government Data (OGD2.0), e-Taal, delivery of services through CSC, web, Kiosks & Mobile platform, Digital Village
and Capacity Building programme etc. Each project has its own budgetary requirement and implementation duration. ‘e-Governance’ is a
Continuing Scheme. The scheme has been in operation since inception of National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) and has been expanding over the
years to include various technological developmental activities in different sectors.

16. Details of posts created for the Scheme (Regular/Contractual separately) and the number of persons engaged against them with annual
financial implications

Nil.

17. Any additional posts proposed to be created with annual financial implication

The present proposal does not intend creation of posts.

18. Comments of other stakeholders including Ministries/Departments/NITI Aayog and response thereon (in a tabular form)

The EFC note on continuing schemes under Digital India programme beyond March 31, 2021, was circulated for inter-ministerial consultations.
The scheme-wise comments / suggestions were received from Ministries / Departments and the response on the same from Programme Division are
placed at Annexure-C-Overall Inter-ministerial Consultations.

***

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III. National Knowledge Network (NKN) Scheme

Part B

1. Name of the scheme

National Knowledge Network (NKN)
2. Objectives of the scheme

The Objective of the NKN is to inter-connect all knowledge institutions across the country through high speed data communication network to
encourage sharing of resources and collaborative research. A high speed data communication network has been established to interconnect Institution
of higher learning, and research.

3. Background of the scheme

In March 2010 the Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure (CCI) approved the establishment of the National Knowledge Network (NKN) at an outlay of
Rs.5990 crore, implemented by NIC over a period of 10 years. The duration of NKN has been extended till 31st March 2023. The total funds released
over the period for NKN (as on 30th June 2022) is Rs. 5134.70 cr.

4. Whether Central Sector (CS) scheme/Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS)

Central Sector (CS) scheme/project

5. Total proposed outlay (component-wise and year-wise for FY 2022-23 to 2025-26)

(Rs in Crore)
Actual Expenditure BE of Projection for FY Projection for FY Projection for FY Total fund requirement of
of FY 21-22 FY 22-23 23-24 24-25 25-26 FY23-24 to FY25-26
1 2 3 4 5 6 (3+4+5)
500.00 650.00 495.52 - - 495.52
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Proposed breakup for outlay for NKN / DII is as detailed below:

S. No. Particulars Funds requirements (in Rs cr.)

FY 2022-23 FY 2023-24 FY 2024-25# FY 2025-26# Total for next 3

financial years
(FY23-FY25)

1. BW for core/ 435.44 331.95 - - 331.95

distribution/ end nodes

2. H/W, S/W, Routers/ 88.35 67.35 - - 67.35

Switches/
NOC/DR/DC/PoPs etc
for NKN

3. FMS/Admin/Research 94.66 72.16 - - 72.16

etc.

4. Internet + External 27.77 21.17 - - 21.17

connectivity

5. Pilot Projects 0.00 0.00 - - 0.00

6. Contingency 3.79 2.89 - - 2.89

Total 650.00 495.52 - - 495.52

# It may kindly be noted that funds for NKN project for FY2024-25 and FY2025-26 are not being asked at this stage, as the approval for new
project called Digital India Infoway (DII) is under process. NKN would get subsumed under DII. EFC has already recommended the prpject for Rs
6999.00 crore (with Rs 5599.00 crore – contribution of MeitY and Rs 1400.00 crore by user Ministries). Proposal for allocation of budget for DII
(new project) would be sought separately after the approval of the project by the Competent Authority.
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6. Actual Expenditure of the ongoing Scheme in last 3 years

S. N. Financial Year Fund released

2019-20 ₹ 274.64
1.
2020-21 ₹ 584.00
2.
2021-22 ₹ 500.00
3.

7. Approved output/outcome of ongoing scheme year-wise and achievements (in a tabular form)
The NKN is to inter-connect all knowledge institutions across the country through high speed data communication network to encourage sharing of
resources and collaborative research. It was envisaged to interconnect about 1500 Institution of higher learning, and research.
Output/outcome of NKN year-wise is given in following table:

S. N. FY Number of links to Institutions Number of District links

(Cumulative) (Cumulative)

1. 2009-10 66 -
2. 2010-11 130 -
3. 2011-12 681 -
4. 2012-13 988 70
5. 2013-14 1226
280

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 6. 2014-15 1404 340
7. 2015-16 1580 447
8. 2016-17 1635 493
9. 2017-18 1655 494
10. 2018-19 1697 505
11. 2019-20 1730 515
12. 2020-21 1746 515
13. 2021-22 1756 522
14. 2022-23* 1765 536
*As on June2022
Achievements as on June 2022:
▪ 1765 links to Institutions have been commissioned and made operational. This includes 383 links to institutions under NMEICT, which have
been migrated to NKN.
▪ 536 NKN links have been connected to NIC district centers across India.
▪ NKN has 31 Points of Presence (PoPs) in various State Capitals (including 7 Super Core PoPs)
▪ 94 core links across the country
▪ 10G bandwidth to 49 Edge links covering 38 Institutes
▪ High capacity SCPC VSAT connectivity at Kavaratti, Lakshadweep and Port Blair, Andaman & Nicobar Islands has been established
▪ NKN has been significantly expanding its global reach by establishing 3 International PoPs at Singapore, Amsterdam, and Geneva (CERN).

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 ▪ For increasing its Global outreach, NKN has peered with other National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) such as Asi@connect
in Asia Pacific, CERN and GEANT in Europe, SingAREN in Singapore, Internet2 in USA, LEARN in Sri Lanka, BdREN in Bangladesh,
DrukREN in Bhutan, Maldives and NORDUnet for Nordic countries.

8. Existing and proposed funding pattern (in a tabular form) along with rationale.

100% GIA by MeitY

9. Major findings of evaluation/outcome review and comments of the Ministry/Department on each observation of the scheme (Attach
evaluation report)
An Independent Impact Assessment has been conducted by the Indian Institute of Public Administration to evaluate the existing NKN project. A
detailed report has been submitted in 2019.

The Executive Summary of the Report with Observations & Recommendations along with comments of Program Division is at Annexure-A-III(1).

10. Major changes/departure proposed from the ongoing/approved scheme along with justification.
N.A.
11. Major changes in costing norms, if any
N.A.
12. Convergence architecture with other Central Government Schemes
N.A.
13. Rationale for continuation
Digital India Infoway (DII) the next phase of National Knowledge Network (NKN) with significantly enhanced scope and scale is still under process
of approval.
14. Proposed output/outcomes year-wise
Digital India Infoway (DII) the next phase of National Knowledge Network (NKN) with significantly enhanced scope and scale is still under process
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of approval. Given this under NKN project the existing network of about 1765 links to institutions would be kept operational.
15. Sunset date
N.A.
16. Details of posts created for the Scheme (Regular/Contractual separately) and the number of persons engaged against them with annual
financial implications.
It was envisaged at the time of the EFC of NKN in 2009, that:

“…it is important that strategic control of NKN is managed by the Government as it will be the backbone for all services in different sectors. For
this, that NKN (NIC) would need a management and technical structure consisting of 40 professional staff (4 Scientist 'D', 8 Scientist 'C', 28
Scientist ‘B') and 10 support staff. The other additional requirement will be met through outsourcing. The estimated expenditure to support the
staff of 40 technical and 10 support personnel is estimated to be Rs. 35.40 crores over the ten year period of Project duration. The expenditure in
respect of above staff has been provisioned under the head 'Facility management cost with Administrative Cost...”

“…All the manpower would be hired on a contract basis or on deputation and for the project duration only…”

17. Any additional posts proposed to be created with annual financial implication
N.A.
18. Comments of other stakeholders including Ministries/Departments/NITI Aayog and response thereon (in a tabular form).
The EFC note on continuing schemes under Digital India programme beyond March 31, 2021, was circulated for inter-ministerial consultations. The
scheme-wise comments / suggestions were received from Ministries / Departments and the response on the same from Programme Division are placed
at Annexure-C-Overall Inter-ministerial Consultations.

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IV. Promotion of Electronics and Hardware Manufacturing Scheme

Electronic System Design and Manufacturing Division runs ongoing and new projects (that need funding beyond March31, 2021). D/o
Expenditure vide F.No.32(01)/PFC-II/2021 dated February11,2021 has indicated that a sum of Rs 54,430 crore is committed liability for PLI
Scheme, M-SIPS, EMC Scheme, EDF, SPECS, EMC 2.0.

The break-up details for Rs 54,430 crore committed liability as given by DoE is as follows:

• PLI Scheme with committed liability Rs 43,765 Crore,

• M-SIPS with committed liability Rs. 5,400 Crore,
• EMC with committed liability Rs. 779 Crore
• EDF with committed liability Rs 100 Crore,
• SPECS with committed liability Rs 2,386 Crore and
• EMC 2.0 with committed liability Rs 2,000 Crore

The ceiling of 5.5 times of expenditure of FY 2019-20 is applicable on schemes except above schemes (PLI Scheme, M- SIPS, EMC
Scheme, EDF, SPECS, and EMC2.0).

However, the scheme-wise expenditure details of the Schemes i.e. PLI, M-SIPS, EMC, EDF, SPECS and EMC 2.0 has been provided
below:

Amount Released (in Rs. Crore)

Schemes
Upto March 2021 FY 2021-22 FY 2022-23 (as on 31st July, 2022)
M-SIPS 1166.98 588.76 33.12
EMC 757.46 53.22 0
EMC 2.0 1.45 204.31 0
EDF 164.24 0 0
SPECS NA 50 0

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 PLI NA 0 0

Note: The sunset date of the Scheme ‘Electronics Manufacturing Clusters’ (EMC) is October, 2022. It is proposed to extend the
tenure of the scheme up-to March 2024 without any additional financial liability.

The brief details for remaining projects under Promotion of Electronics and Hardware Manufacturing Scheme (that need funding for
continuance beyond March 2023) are as follows:

Part B

1. Name of the scheme:

Promotion of Electronics and IT Hardware (MSIPS, EDF and manufacturing clusters)

2. Objectives of the scheme

The intent of the scheme is to provide a level playing field for the domestic manufacturers enabling them to compete with imports in the sector by
rationalizing tariff structure, simplifying procedures, providing incentives and upgrading infrastructure. The Government attaches high priority to
electronics hardware manufacturing and it is one of the important pillars of both “Make in India” and “Digital India” programmes of Government
of India.

3. Background of the scheme

Under ‘Digital India’ and ‘Make in India’ programs, India has witnessed an unprecedented growth in electronics manufacturing in the last five
years. The policies and schemes launched by government, including ease of doing business and fiscal incentives have created a conducive
environment for the domestic electronics manufacturing to flourish.

The schemes shall provide an impetus for promoting domestic electronics manufacturing in a big way. The overall impact of these new schemes
will be an increase in domestic value addition, creation of Domestic Champion Companies and incremental manufacturing of INR 15 lakh crore
and exports of INR 10 lakh crore, along with employment to more than 10 lakh people in electronics manufacturing sector over next 5 years. These

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schemes will pave way for the Aatma Nirbhar Bharat- a self-reliant India and shall contribute significantly in achieving a USD 1 Trillion
digital economy and a USD 5 Trillion GDP by 2025.

All schemes would definitely prove to be a milestone for the economic growth of the country. These schemes have the potential to attract large
investment by big business houses of the country as well as multi-nationals.

In addition to main schemes (PLI, MSIPS, EDF, SPECS and EMC/EMC2.0) which have been declared committed liability, a few projects also
come under Promotion of Electronics & IT Hardware Manufacturing. The details of these projects, to be appraised by EFC, are given
hereunder:-

i. Gallium Nitride (GaN) Ecosystem Enabling Centre and Incubator

Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has granted approval for “Establishment of Gallium Nitride (GaN) Ecosystem Enabling
Centre and Incubator for High Power and High Frequency Electronics” at Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE), Indian Institute of
Science (IISc), Bengaluru at the total project cost of Rs. 298.66 crore. The project will be implemented by the Society for Innovation and
Development (SID), being converted to a Section 8 company titled "Foundation for Science, Innovation and Development" under the auspices of
Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru.

Establishment of GaN foundry facility as part of the Incubator will help to stimulate the flow of capital and technology, create employment
opportunities, promote higher value addition in the electronic products manufactured in the country, especially in RF and power applications,
including strategic applications, reduce dependence on imports and give thrust to the Hon’ble Prime Minister’s clarion call for “Atmanirbhar
Bharat’’

ii. Miscellaneous Projects:

Projects/Activities FY 2021-22 FY 2022-23 FY 2023-24 FY 2024-25 FY 2025-26

(Actuals) (BE)
Investment Promotion Projects and Capacity Building initiatives (Grant in Aid) Objective: Projects to strengthen of ESDM
Sector

Promotion and Awareness 1.0 2.0 0.16 0.0 0.0

of ESDM Policies of MeitY

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 Joint Training Program in
0.0 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4
the field of Electronics and
IT
Investment Promotion Advertisement and Publicity (OCS)

Objective: Promotional activities for decimation through wide publicity of MeitY’s initiatives to strengthen ESDM sector in
India. Participations in national and International events, financial support to Association etc.

ESDM PMU by NISG 2.01 2.65 3.0 3.2 3.60

Making of Promotional
0.0 0.50 0.60 0.70 0.80
Videos
Other Promotional
0.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0
Activity

Professional fees for verification of claims in respect of MSIPS, PLI, SPECS

Professional charges for
verification of claims of 50.00 50.00 50.00 51.00 53.00
MSIPS, PLI, SPECS, etc.
Total (FY 2021-26) 111.34

4. Whether Central Sector (CS) scheme/Centrally sponsored scheme

Central Sector (CS) Scheme

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5. Total proposed outlay (Component-wise and Year-wise): \

(Rs. In crore)

Project 2021-22 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26 Total

(Actuals) (Budget (for next
Estimates) 3 years
FY 23-
FY25)
Gallium Nitride (GaN) Ecosystem 210.16 17.56 18.27 26.07 26.60 70.94
Enabling Centre and Incubator
Miscellaneous Projects

Centre for Excellence 32.75 11.97 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

Scheme for setting-up/up-gradation of 0.00 0.20 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

Electronic Product Testing/Quality
Control Laboratories
Promotion and Awareness of ESDM
1.00 2.0 0.16 0.0 0.0 0.16
Policies of MeitY
Joint Training Program in the field of 0.3
0.00 0.3 0.3 0.4 1.0
Electronics and IT
ESDM PMU by NISG 2.01 2.65 3.0 3.2 3.60 9.80
Making of Promotional Videos 0.00 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 2.1
Other Promotional Activity 0.00 1.5 2.0 2.50 3.0 7.5
Professional charges for verification of
50.00 50.00 50.00 51.00 53.00 154
claims of MSIPS, PLI, SPECS, etc.
Grand Total 295.92 86.68 74.33 83.77 87.40 245.5

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 6. Actual Expenditure of the ongoing scheme in last 3 years
(Rs. In crore)

Expenditure vis-à-vis Financial Year Total

Projects under the 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 (From 2018-
Scheme 19 to 2020-21)

Gallium Nitride (GaN)

Ecosystem Enabling 00.00 00.00 00.00 00.00
Centre and Incubator

Miscellaneous Projects 76.29 14.42 20.63 111.34

7. Approved output/outcome of ongoing scheme year wise and achievements (in a tabular form)
i. Gallium Nitride (GaN) Ecosystem Enabling Centre and Incubator

Year-wise timeline for outcome:

Year Name of the Outcome Indicators for outcome Achievements

Project under
the Scheme
FY 2021-22 Establishment • Incubation of 1ststartup. • Incubation of 1ststartup. • Upgradation of clean
of Gallium • Up gradation of Clean Room. • Up gradation of Clean room ongoing
Nitride (GaN) • Manpower hiring Room. • 1st round for hiring
Ecosystem • release of purchase orders for procurement • Manpower hiring manpower
Enabling of Tools required for establishment of D- • release of purchase orders completed. Total 15
Centre and Line. for procurement of Tools people have been
Incubator for required for establishment of hired and training
started.
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 High Power D-Line. • POs have been
and High placed for tools.
Frequency
Electronics

i
iFY 2022-23 Completion of establishment of D-Line Installation and commissioning Equipments are yet to be
. of the equipments received.

MFY 2023-24 1st Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR)

i program with 4 potential entrepreneurs
s completed, Development of L, S and C-
c Band RF devices.
eFY 2024-25 2ndstartup incubated and 2nd EIR program
l with 4 more potential entrepreneurs
l completed. Qualification of L, S and C-
a Band RF devices. Development of Power
n Device.
e
FY 2025-26 3rd startup incubated and 3rd EIR program
o
with 4 more potential entrepreneurs
u
completed. Commercialization of L, S and
s
C-Band RF devices. Qualification of
Power Device
P

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8. Existing and proposed funding patterns (in a tabular form) along with rationale.

i. Gallium Nitride (GaN) Ecosystem Enabling Centre and Incubator

(Rs. In crore)
Expenditure head 2021-22 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26
(Year 1) (Year 2) (Year 3) (Year 4) (Year 5)
Capital 187.27 0 0 0 0
Consumables 14.96 9.28 9.28 16.85 16.85
Manpower 3.48 3.83 4.79 5.27 5.80
Travel 0.75 0.75 0.5 0.25 0.25
Contingency 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5
Overheads 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2
Total 210.16 17.56 18.27 26.07 26.60
Grand Total 298.66

ii. Miscellaneous Project

Projects/Activities FY 2021-22 FY 2022-23 FY 2023-24 FY 2024-25 FY 2025-26

(Actuals) (BE)

Investment Promotion Projects and Capacity Building initiatives (Grant in Aid) Objective: Projects to strengthen of ESDM Sector

Promotion and Awareness of 1.0 2.0 0.16 0.0 0.0

ESDM Policies of MeitY

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 Joint Training Program in the
0.0 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4
field of Electronics and IT
9 Investment Promotion Advertisement and Publicity (OCS)
.
Objective: Promotional activities for decimation through wide publicity of MeitY’s initiatives to strengthen ESDM sector in India.
MParticipations in national and International events, financial support to Association etc.
a
j ESDM PMU by NISG 2.01 2.65 3.0 3.2 3.60
o
r
Making of Promotional
0.0 0.50 0.60 0.70 0.80
f Videos
iOther Promotional
n Activity 0.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0
d
9 Professional fees for verification of claims in respect of MSIPS, PLI, SPECS

9 Professional charges for

. verification of claims of 50.00 50.00 50.00 51.00 53.00
MSIPS, PLI, SPECS, etc.
M
a
Total (From 2021-22 to 2025-26) 284.52
j
or findings of evaluation / outcome review and comments of the Ministry / Department on each observation of the scheme (Attach
evaluation report)

Not Applicable

10. Major changes / departure proposed from earlier scheme along with justification

Not Applicable

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11. Major changes in costing norms, if any

NIL

12. Convergence architecture with other central government schemes

Not Applicable

13. Rationale for continuation

i. Gallium Nitride (GaN) Ecosystem Enabling Centre and Incubator

The project has been approved for a period of 5 years.

ii. Miscellaneous Projects

NA

14. Proposed output/outcomes year-wise

i. Gallium Nitride (GaN) Ecosystem Enabling Centre and Incubator

Year Name of the Project Indicator for outcome Targeted Outcome Financial year
under the Scheme

FY 21-22 Establishment of • Incubation of 1ststartup. • Incubation of 1ststartup.

Gallium Nitride (GaN) • Up gradation of Clean Room. • Up gradation of Clean Room.
Ecosystem Enabling • Manpower hiring • Manpower hiring
Centre and Incubator • release of purchase orders for procurement • Release of purchase orders for
for High Power and of Tools required for establishment of D- procurement of Tools required for
Line. establishment of D-Line.

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 High Frequency
Electronics
FY 22-23 Installation and commissioning of the Completion of establishment of D-Line
equipments
FY 23-24 1st Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR)
program with 4 potential entrepreneurs
completed, Development of L, S and C-
Band RF devices.
FY 24-25 2ndstartup incubated and 2nd EIR program
with 4 more potential entrepreneurs
completed. Qualification of L, S and C-
Band RF devices. Development of Power
Device.
FY 25-26 3rdstartup incubated and 3rd EIR program
with 4 more potential entrepreneurs
completed. Commercialization of L, S and
C-Band RF devices. Qualification of Power
Device

15. Sunset date

i. Gallium Nitride (GaN) Ecosystem Enabling Centre and Incubator

March, 2026

ii. Miscellaneous Projects

NA

16. Details of posts created for the Scheme (Regular/Contractual separately) and the number of persons engaged against them with
annual financial implications

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i. Gallium Nitride (GaN) Ecosystem Enabling Centre and Incubator

Not Applicable

ii. Miscellaneous Projects

To be answered by Programme Officer.

17. Any additional posts proposed to be created with annual financial implication.

i. Gallium Nitride (GaN) Ecosystem Enabling Centre and Incubator

Not Applicable

ii. Miscellaneous Projects

Not Applicable

18. Comments of other stakeholders including Ministries/Departments/NITI Aayog and response thereon (in a tabular form)

The EFC note on continuing schemes under Digital India programme beyond March 31, 2021, was circulated for inter-ministerial consultations.
The scheme-wise comments / suggestions were received from Ministries / Departments and the response on the same from Programme Division
are placed at Annexure-C-Overall Inter-ministerial Consultations.

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V. Promotion of Indian IT Industry (Services and Products) (IT&ITeS)

Software Industry Promotion Division (SIPD) runs promotion of Indian IT Industry (Services and Products) scheme. The details are as
follows:

Part B

1. Name of the Scheme:

Promotion of Indian IT Industry (Services and Products)

2. Objectives of the Scheme:

The overall objective of the scheme is to promote creation of a sustainable IT/software industry leveraging India’s strength in IT sector and an
Entrepreneurship eco-system having capabilities to create disruptive innovations and cutting edge technologies. The Key objective of various
components of the scheme includes the following:

• To create employment opportunities and dispersal of IT/ITES industry in small cities/towns by incentivize setting up of BPO/ITES operations
• Provides support to selected Accelerators for extending Accelerator Services to startups
• To nurture the deep tech innovation ecosystem that can guide, develop, implement and support startups, especially in a scaling up phase in deep
tech
• To identify start-ups working towards outstanding software products for futuristic problems/ emerging ICT technologies/ Societal problems and to
promote identified start-ups through technical, financial and mentoring support
• Co-creating an ecosystem to foster innovation in the country and provide a platform for proof of concepts, leading towards collaborative growth
and economic activity by using digital technologies and innovative software products.
• To encourage Indian IT exporters in their efforts at tapping and developing overseas markets. enhance export from the small/ micro Indian IT
enterprises and to assist Indian IT SMEs in existing infrastructure for soft landing
• Working towards Policy issues and hurdles that are not limited to visa issues, qualification issues, Govt procurement rules, taxation issues,
totalisation & mobility concerns, regulatory barriers, etc.
• Amplifying Indian IT/ ITeS trade and re-branding industry in developed Markets.

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• To harness the potential of the IT/Software sector available in the smaller cities of India to contribute in country’s development and growth
• Creating India as global brand in Information Technology
• To create an enabling platform for the identified organizations to realize their potential in terms of product development and in taking those
products to the market to contribute to the Indian economic growth.
3. Background of the Scheme:
The Indian IT-ITeS industry has played a key role in India’s economic growth over the last ten years. Over the last decade, the industry has grown
over five fold in revenue terms, thus contributing a substantial share to India’s GDP. More importantly, the industry has led the economic
transformation of the country and altered the perception of India in the global economy.

The global sourcing market continues to grow at a higher pace compared to the IT-ITeS industry. India is well known as a top global IT outsourcing
destination. The Indian IT-ITeS industry with 16,000 firms creates 3.9 million direct and 10 million indirect employment opportunities. The Indian
IT-ITeS industry serves 80 countries with 200 foreign offices and also houses 650 Global in-house centers of foreign companies in India.

In recent years, the Indian IT Industry has shown signs of moving up the value chain with the mushrooming of a number of young entrepreneurs
focusing on software products and are trying to exploit the possibilities that have arisen due to emergence of cloud infrastructure. This is further
complimented by fast evolving use of Big Data and Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem resulting in the convergence of hardware with software. India
is a world leader in the services space, but is lagging behind in the space of “Products”, “Platforms” and “Ecosystems”.

Software products have become the most effective hedge against disruption to businesses and are integral to business continuity. This became evident
during the COVID-19 crisis in India where the entire nation was placed under lockdown. The disruption to online businesses and the online supply
chain was mitigated thanks to software products. However, security, data privacy and data integrity became core concerns during this situation.
Despite having the third largest start-up ecosystem in the world, India doesn’t have software products that can be used in such times of crises.

MeitY is working for the growth of Indian IT industry at all levels through various programs. Individuals and Start-ups are being supported through
various incubator programmes, Centre of Excellences, Development of Entrepreneurship, Skilling and re-skilling etc. After incubation, support to
start-ups, MSMEs etc. is envisaged through proposed Accelerator programme of MeitY.. Also, the Indian Software Product Registry (ISPR) has been
created to analyse numbers/ statistics/ database of Indian Software Product Companies (ISPC) and to bring all software products at one single
platform.

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 4. Whether Central Sector (CS) or Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS)

Central Sector Scheme

5. Total Proposed Outlay (Component-wise and year-wise)

Actual Expenditure of FY 21- BE of FY 22-23 Projection for FY Projection for FY Projection for FY Total fund requirement of
22 23-24 24-25 25-26 FY23-24 to FY25-26
1 2 3 4 5 6(3+4+5)
69.79 100 285.08 176.83 196.30 658.21

Budgetary requirements in the Existing schemes, Additional Budgetary requirements for the proposed initiatives in the 2nd & 3rd category

Funds Project Project Year-Wise Funds requirements (Rs.

Initiation completion In Crores)
released so
S. Budget Outlay Date date
Name of the project
No. (in Rs. Crore) far (in Rs. including 2025-
Crore) extension 2023-24 2024-25 Total
26
period
Existing initiatives/project along with year-wise funds requirements under the Electronic Governance
scheme, which need to continue
1 India BPO Promotion Scheme 493.00 99.73 Dec2015 March 2025 30 20.75 20 70.75
2 North East BPO Promotion January2015 March2025
50.00 0.82 2 2 3.75 7.75
Scheme
3 Start-up Accelerator Programme
of MeitY for Product Innovation, 99.00 10 31.05.2021 30.05.2024 44 20 - 64
Development and Growth

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 Funds Project Project Year-Wise Funds requirements (Rs.
Initiation completion In Crores)
released so
S. Budget Outlay Date date
Name of the project
No. (in Rs. Crore) far (in Rs. including 2025-
Crore) extension 2023-24 2024-25 Total
26
period
(SAMRIDH)

4 iTamil Nadu Technology (iTNT) 54.61 Cr. 03.03.2022 02.03.2027

Hub in Chennai (MeitY
10 4.60 3.0 2.75 10.35
Contribution 27
Cr.)
5. Next Generation Incubation 95.03 Cr.
Scheme (NGIS) (Released 20.54 20.54 13.01.2020 12.01.2024 40 - - 40
Cr.)
6. PRATIBHA for promoting rural 3.12 Cr. (Meity 29.04.2020 28.04.2022
1.85 - - -
e-commerce at NIFT Delhi – 2.65 Cr.)
7. Living Lab for Smart cities @ IIT 7.75 Cr. (MeitY April 2020 September
3.85cr - - -
Hyderabad – 5.25 Cr.) 2022
8. 20.32 3.58
Centre of Excellence on Industry
MeitY: 8.32
4.0 at Rashtriya ISPAT Nigam 14.10.2021 13.10.2026 1.15 1.21 1.31 3.67
Ltd. – Visakhapatnam Steel Plant
(RINL-VSP)
9. Women Entrepreneur Award for 0.75 December May 2022
0.36
Software Products-2021-22 2020
10. Smart Farm Grand Challenge 3.18 Cr. (Meity
1.0 20.03.2020 19.03.2025 0.32 0.32 0.64
– 2.54 Cr.)

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 Funds Project Project Year-Wise Funds requirements (Rs.
Initiation completion In Crores)
released so
S. Budget Outlay Date date
Name of the project
No. (in Rs. Crore) far (in Rs. including 2025-
Crore) extension 2023-24 2024-25 Total
26
period
SMDP- M.Tech in Electronics/IT
11 8.90 1.77 1.85 1.62 5.24
product Design:-IIIT Hyderabad
Development of quantum optical
sensor based system to identify
and categorize arsenic and lead in
12 2.39 .62 - - 0.62
water even with very low
concentration- CDAC-Kolkata
and Tezpur University-Assam
Development of computational
protocols for designing inhibitors
1.67 (MeitY:
using PARP-I as a model and
13 1.27; NIPER: .30 - - 0.3
synthesis & biological evaluation
40)
of designed inhibitors-(NIPER) –
Guwahati
AI-on-Edge: AI-based edge
14 analytics framework for real time 1.59 .34 - - 0.34
disaster management- IIT Bhilai
Design and Development of a
Unified Blockchain Framework
for offering National Blockchain
15 Service-C-DAC,(Hyderabad, 64.76 12 - - 12.00
Mumbai & Pune), NIC, IDRBT,
Hyderabad, IIT H, SETS Chennai
and IIIT H

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 Funds Project Project Year-Wise Funds requirements (Rs.
Initiation completion In Crores)
released so
S. Budget Outlay Date date
Name of the project
No. (in Rs. Crore) far (in Rs. including 2025-
Crore) extension 2023-24 2024-25 Total
26
period
Indigenous Intelligent and
Scalable Neuromorphic Multi
16 Chip for AI Training and 4.74 1.77 - - 1.77
Inference Solutions-IIT
Hyderabad
Improving the effectiveness of
the Gems and Jewellery Industry
by leveraging Machine Learning
6.73 (MeitY:
and Data Science to improve the
17 3.32 ; GJSIC: - - -
Hit Ratio and Casting issues.-IIT
3.41)
Bombay and & Gem and
Jewellery Skill Council of India
(GJSCI)
18 Market Outreach Initiatives 13.00 2.25 19.02.2020 18.02.2023 5.75 - - 5.75
19 Smart Agri Patna 24 (Meity – 14.09.2021 13.09.2025 4.1
4.0335 1.77 0.97 1.36
9.60)
20 CoE on AI/ Data Analytics, AVG 01.03.2019 29.02.2024
and IoT “Neuron” at Mohali 0.94 1.60 0.44 0.44

21 CoE on Autonomous Connected 11.07.2019 10.07.2024

Electric and Shared Mobility 4.50 3.50 1.5 1.5
“Motion” at Pune

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 Funds Project Project Year-Wise Funds requirements (Rs.
Initiation completion In Crores)
released so
S. Budget Outlay Date date
Name of the project
No. (in Rs. Crore) far (in Rs. including 2025-
Crore) extension 2023-24 2024-25 Total
26
period

22 CoE on IoT in Agriculture 08.03.2021 07.03.2024

“Fasal” at Dr. PDKV Akola 8.22 2.00 3.65 3.65

23 Innovation 21.04.2020 20.04.2024

Challenge for
development of Indian Video 3.45 3.25 0.10 0.10
Conferencing Solution
Sub Total (A) 971.65 168.36 152.08 50.1 30.79 232.97

Existing initiatives/project along with year-wise funds requirements, which need a merger, needs expansion/
reduction or need to be stopped
24 ICT Grand Challenge programme 11.75 (MeitY- 29.04.2020 18.04.2022
under national Policy on Software 10.15)
Products
9.85 Cr
2.65 5 5 5 15
(Additional
fund
requirement for
expansion)
25 Centre of Excellence with Start- 10 cr March 2020 March 2025
Up Innovation Zones (CoE-SIZ) 69.00 (phase-I) (Phase-I) (phase-I) 10 15 14 39
10cr March 2021 March 2026
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 Funds Project Project Year-Wise Funds requirements (Rs.
Initiation completion In Crores)
released so
S. Budget Outlay Date date
Name of the project
No. (in Rs. Crore) far (in Rs. including 2025-
Crore) extension 2023-24 2024-25 Total
26
period
in NER (phase-II) (Phase-II) (phase-II)

26 Centre of Excellence in Deep-

40.00 10 10 10 30
Tech in collaboration with STPI
Sub Total (B) 130.6 22.65 25 30 29 84

New initiatives along with year-wise funds requirements under the Electronic Governance scheme to be
developed in line with Digital India 2.0
27 Scheme to support promotion of
IT Industry beyond metro cities 320 70 60.24 89.51 219.75

28 Scheme to promote India as

global brand in Information 10 4.25 1.25 1.25 6.75
Technology
29 Software Product Innovation &
Research Programme under
52 8.00 9.49 20 37.49
National Policy on Software
Product (RAPID)
30 Establishment of Super
Innovation Cluster under NPSP 125 25 25 25 75
(at least 5)
31 Women Entrepreneur Award for 2.25
0.75 0.75 0.75 2.25
Software Products-2022-23

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 Funds Project Project Year-Wise Funds requirements (Rs.
Initiation completion In Crores)
released so
S. Budget Outlay Date date
Name of the project
No. (in Rs. Crore) far (in Rs. including 2025-
Crore) extension 2023-24 2024-25 Total
26
period
Sub Total (C) 509.25 - 108.00 96.73 136.51 341.24
Grand Total (A+B+C) 1611.5 191.01
285.08 176.83 196.03 658.21

*Budget of DIIF has not been included as it is in concept stage.

6. Actual Expenditure of the ongoing scheme in last 3 years

S. Scheme FY3 (E.g. FY 2019-20) FY4 (E.g. FY 2020-21) FY5 (E.g. FY 2021-22)
No.

Promotion of Indian IT
Industry (Services and 90 98.55 69.79
Products)

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7. Approved output/outcome of ongoing scheme year-wise and achievements (in a tabular form)

Approved output / outcomes Achievements

FY1 (E.g.FY2017-18) BPO Promotion Schemes: Direct employment

toover 12,000 persons by the units set up under
BPO Promotion schemes.

FY2(E.g.FY2018-19) BPO Promotion Schemes: Direct employment

toover 29,000 persons by the units set up under
BPO Promotion schemes.

FY3(E.g.FY2019-20) BPO Promotion Schemes: Direct employment

toover 36,000 persons by the units set up under
BPO Promotion schemes.

FY4(E.g.FY2020-21) ICTGC 2 ICTGC At the end of each ICTGC, 10 software products

are expected to be developed as prototype and 4
finish software products with one winner.

BPO promotion BPO Promotion Schemes: Direct employment to

scheme over 39,000 persons by the units set up under
BPO Promotion schemes.

Digital Platform for Selection of 25 enterprises via A total of 25 candidates (crafts based
Crafts based Design challenge to help them enterprises/entrepreneurs) will be selected
Businesses upscale and handhold, along with through Level I Design Challenge
(PRATIBHA) development of the digital
platform

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 Living Labs in India Preparation of the DPR/Vision This project deals with laying down of IITH
with Smart Cities Document, laying of the Smart Campus Living Lab Foundational Work
foundational work for the smart including Open standard foundational work,
campus and running challenges to repository registry, communication set-up, pilot
rope in start-ups of command centre, followed by
coaching/guidance/support for Smart Campus
Implementation Work

Next Generation 117 Startups to be benefitted 3rd challenge round (CHUNAUTI 3.0) is
Incubation Scheme under the Scheme completed. Screening and selection of startups
are at last stage.

Centre of excellence 1. No. of start-ups are to be Open Challenge program run under various
benefitted CoE’s. Startups are selected and on-boarded
2. Provide physical, technical, and under the various CoE’s.
financial support

FY5 ICTGC 2 ICTGC At the end of each ICTGC, 10 software products

(E.g. FY2021-22) are expected to be developed as prototype and 4
finish software products with one winner.

Digital Platform for Selection of final 10 candidates The platform and its capacity building
Crafts based along with population of the technological tools will be made available to
Businesses platform and collecting data for the10 winners out of the 25 selected candidates.
(PRATIBHA) the said digital library embedded
in the platform

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 Living Labs in India Smart campus implementation and This project deals with laying down of IITH
with Smart Cities working of Living Labs with Smart Campus Living Lab Foundational Work
start-ups for creating of including Open standard foundational work,
prototypes and Proof of Concepts, repository registry, communication set-up, pilot
setting up of infrastructure based of command centre, followed by
on themes identified, working on coaching/guidance/support for Smart Campus
water waste management Implementation Work
challenges identified by
Telangana Govt. as a pilot of the
project.

BPO promotion BPO Promotion Schemes: Direct employment to

scheme over 50,000 persons by the units set up under
BPO Promotion schemes.

8. Existing and proposed funding pattern (in a tabular form) along with rationale

Existing Funding Pattern Proposed Funding Pattern Rationale

Projects/programmes are being implemented by (1) Projects would be implemented Start-ups and MSME sector needs to be roped in
Academic institutions, Autonomous through Academic institutions, for innovation, product development and
organizations, Industry associations etc through Autonomous organizations, Industry promotion of Indian software. This would boost
Grant-in-Aid and other charges support. associations etc through Grant-in-Aid the innovation and accelerate the overall growth of
and other charges support. IT industry ecosystem in the country.
(2) In addition, efforts would be
initiated to implement programmes for
supporting Start-ups/ MSME for
promoting Indian IT Industry.
(3) Challenge led innovation for
development of innovative products
would be initiated.
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 9. Major findings of evaluation / outcome review and comments of the Ministry / Department on each observation of the scheme (Attach
evaluation report)
o BPO promotion scheme has been well executed as seen from the appreciation of all stakeholders. Inputs from the units were well received by
STPI & MeitY and the changes affected like- OPEX model, provision of advance VGF and minimum employment have really benefited the units.
o The scheme has to be continued with some modifications like reducing the employment target, provision of work from home, expanding scope of
claiming more expenses under operational expenditure. Although current scheme has good additional incentive for women and divyangjan
employment it will be great to have incentive for employing weaker section of the society like SC/ST for their overall upliftment. Special incentive
can also be considered for entrepreneurs/companies led by women, divyangjan, SC/ST persons.
o The portal has helped in speedy implementation of the scheme and has led to efficient information dissemination.

10. Major changes / departure proposed from earlier scheme along with justification
-
11. Major changes in costing norms, if any

No Major Change in Costing Norms.

12. Convergence architecture with other central government schemes

Collaborative efforts for joint development of technologies at national level with other Ministries and Funding agencies are being initiated.

13. Rationale for continuation

The IT sector in India is now about 3 decades in existence and continues to reinvent itself to be relevant for its stakeholders. The initial advantage
was cost, which then moved to quality to efficiency and is now aimed at becoming the digital transformation partner for businesses globally and in
India. At the same time, there is tremendous value creation taking place in the key markets where India operates. In recent years, the Indian IT
Industry has shown signs of moving up the value chain.

In order to make the Indian IT Industry move up the value chain and thereby sustain its growth trajectory, the National Policy on Software
Products-2019 has been approved by the Union Cabinet on February 28, 2019 with a vision to create a robust Indian Software Product
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 development ecosystem, thereby enabling IP driven holistic growth of the IT Industry. National Policy on Software Products-2019 synergies the
efforts of the Government and Industry to create a robust Software Product Industry, which enables the germinating ground for large number of
Software product startups, promotes development of an ecosystem encouraging R&D and innovation, opens up multitude of opportunities of
access to capital and helps build and improve the domestic demand.

The India’s IT industry is predominantly a service led industry. There is tremendous scope for Indian Software Products to build upon the strength
of Indian IT industry, and the innovative & technological capabilities in the country.

14. Proposed output/outcomes year-wise

Project/ Programme / FY Proposed output/outcomes

A) Next Generation Incubation Scheme

FY1 (E.g.FY2021-22) 100 startups to be supported with 50 successful startups, 50 Mentoring sessions, 17
patents
FY2 (E.g.FY2022-23) 150 startups to be supported, with 75 successful startups, 100 mentoring sessions, 25
patents
FY3 (E.g.FY2023-24) -
FY4 (E.g.FY2024-25) -
FY5 (E.g.FY2025-26) -
B) Market Outreach Initiatives
FY1 (E.g.FY2021-22) Increase in the export and employment of the selected companies
B2B networking meet between India and foreign counterparts
FY2 (E.g.FY2022-23) Increase in the export and employment of the selected companies
B2B networking meet between India and foreign counterparts

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FY3 (E.g.FY2023-24) Increase in the export and employment of the selected companies
B2B networking meet between India and foreign counterparts
FY4 (E.g.FY2024-25) Increase in the export and employment of the selected companies
B2B networking meet between India and foreign counterparts
FY5 (E.g.FY2025-26) Increase in the export and employment of the selected companies
B2B networking meet between India and foreign counterparts
C) ICT Grand Challenges (ICTGC)

FY2 (E.g.FY2022-23) 2 ICTGC

FY3 (E.g.FY2023-24) 5 ICTGC

FY4 (E.g.FY2024-25) 5 ICTGC

FY5 (E.g.FY2025-26) 6 ICTGC

D) SAMRIDH

FY2 (E.g.FY2022-23) 175 Start-ups to be supported

FY3 (E.g.FY2023-24) 50 Start-ups to be supported

FY4 (E.g.FY2024-25) 75 Start-ups to be supported

FY5 (E.g.FY2025-26)

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E) CoE (NER and Patna)

FY1 (E.g.FY2021-22) 80 No. of incubated units

FY2 (E.g.FY2022-23) 152 No. of incubated units

FY3 (E.g.FY2023-24) 238 No. of incubated units

FY4 (E.g.FY2024-25) 300 No. of incubated units

FY5 (E.g.FY2025-26) 328 No. of incubated units

F) Market Development Initiative in

Nordics & Africa Region
FY1 (E.g.FY2021-22) 250 no. of SMEs supported

FY2 (E.g.FY2022-23) 250 no. of SMEs supported

FY3 (E.g.FY2023-24) 500 no. of SMEs supported

FY4 (E.g.FY2024-25)

FY5 (E.g.FY2025-26)

G) Living Labs in India with Smart Cities

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 Year 1 Preparation of the DPR/Vision Document, laying of the foundational work for the
smart campus and running challenges to rope in start-ups
Year 2 Smart campus implementation and working of Living Labs with start-ups for creating
of prototypes and Proof of Concepts, setting up of infrastructure based on themes
identified, working on water waste management challenges identified by Telangana
Govt. as a pilot of the project
H) Programme for Testing and
Certification of Indian Software Products
and Apps
Year 1 500 Software products/Apps will be tested and given certificate

Year 2 700 Software products/Apps will be tested and given certificate

Year 3 800 Software products/Apps will be tested and given certificate

15. Sunset date

Initially upto 2025-26. The continuation to next phase / up-gradation depends on the review of the outcome of the scheme.

16. Details of posts created for the scheme (Regular / contractual separately) and the number of persons engaged against them along with
annual financial implications
-
17. Any additional posts proposed to be created with annual financial implications
-

18. Comments of other stakeholders including Ministries / Departments / NITI Aayog and response thereon (in a tabular form)

The EFC note on continuing schemes under Digital India programme beyond March 31, 2021, was circulated for inter-ministerial consultations. The
scheme-wise comments / suggestions were received from Ministries / Departments and the response on the same from Programme Division are placed
at Annexure-C-Overall Inter-ministerial Consultations.
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VI. R&D in IT/ Electronics/ CC&BT scheme

There are 189 R&D projects, which are implemented under the R&D in IT/ Electronics/ CC&BT sub-scheme. The list
of projects can be seen at Annexure-A-VI.
Part B

1. Name of the Scheme

R&D in Information Technology, Electronics and Convergence, Communications & Broadband Technologies (R&D in IT/ Electronics/ CC&BT).
2. Objectives of the Scheme
MeitY supports R&D activities in all E&ICT areas. Defined group (Electronics, IT, CC&BT) take up research in specific areas of technology. The
objectives of the scheme are as follows:
• To transform India into a global hub of R&D and Innovation in E&IT for inclusive and sustainable growth of the national economy.
• Nurture collaboration with Academia, Research Labs and Industry in India and abroad with a long term road map.
• To create an ecosystem to provide a supply chain for electronics manufacturing in country in some identified thrust areas.
• To develop the know-how of various process technologies, products, systems at different institutes/organisations/ societies suitable for Indian
market and as import substitution.
• Also benefit NE region and SC/ST community through technology & building R&D capabilities.
• Outcomes of the projects reach the masses and have an impact on the society.
Dedicated budget is provided for undertaking R&D in these areas.
Research & Development (R&D) has cross-cutting economic and strategic importance and remains the key driver for economic growth across the
world. Various reports on - (a) Country-wise R&D expenditure by World Bank, UNESCO and World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
and (b) Technological advancements made vis-a-vis economic growth of various countries, necessitates supporting R&D in view of its direct
impact on productivity, exports, employment and capital formation of any country.
While many countries earmarked increasing fractions of GDP for R&D (i.e. 02-05% for US, China, Israel and Korea etc.) with even more
contribution coming from private sector, India’s investment in R&D remains 0.6- 0.8% of GDP with most of it contributed by Government due to
the nascent industry ecosystem particularly in Electronics and ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) and related sectors. In order to
become competitive, resilient, self-sustaining and self-generating in these sectors thereby contributing to overall mission of 'Make in India' and
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 'AatmaNirbhar Bharat', sustained efforts to promote R&D in E&ICT and related areas is essential for the development of indigenous technology,
its transfer to industry for commercialization, and to increase the Intellectual Property (IP) content of product design and development.
In order to create an inclusive, vibrant and sustainable ecosystem for R&D and innovation, MeitY through its on-going sub-scheme for R&D in IT/
Electronics/ CC&BT is bringing the government, industry and academia on a common platform to find solutions for the growing economic and
societal needs & challenges meeting the domestic and global requirements.
a. R&D in IT
The objective is to promote Research and Development in the Emerging areas of Information Technology for development of new technologies/
software solutions to address the various societal/ industrial/ businesses and government needs. The major thrust areas include Quantum
Computing, Quantum Communication, Quantum Cryptography, Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Perception Engineering, Internet of Things
(IoT), Big Data Analytics, Blockchain, Drone & Robotics, etc.
b. R&D in Electronics
Electronics sector, a USD 1.75 trillion industry which is expected to reach USD 3 Trillion by 2024 with a CAGR of about 15%, offers not only the
strategic advantage but also the economic advantage to the industry, institutions and nations through its capacity to develop products and services
efficiently at affordable prices. National Policy on Electronics (NPE) 2019 provides thrust to promote R&D to develop electronic products,
including associated design and creation of Intellectual Properties, for the domestic as well as global markets thereby necessitating the requirement
of sustained R&D programme in the electronic sector. The R&D in Electronics Group, in consonance to NPE 2019 and permeating entire ESDM
(Electronics System Design and Manufacturing) value chain.
(i) Electronics Systems Development & Application Division (ESDA) aims at promoting research & development and implementation of
electronics and IT based products and systems in overall field of Industrial Electronics.
(ii) R&D in Medical Electronics and Health Informatics Division (ME&HI) focuses on Research, development and deployment of technologies
in Medical Electronics and Health Informatics areas for Medical Electronics equipment, Rehabilitation Devices and Health Informatics Systems
for import substitution and societal applications and making it available, accessible at affordable.
(iii) Electronic Materials & Components Development Division (EMCD) envisions strengthening local industries to be competitive in global and
domestic markets in the critical areas of electronic materials and components, photonics manufacturing and electronics waste recycling with
scope to develop new materials, process methodologies, machines and technologies.
(iv) Microelectronics Development Division (MDD) envisions establishing, broadening & strengthening Microelectronics/ VLSI design R&D base
thereby creating vibrant Fabless Chip/ System Design ecosystem in the country by way of setting up of Centres of Excellences, technology
development for societal & strategic sectors and capacity building through sponsored R&D projects providing thrust to following design areas for
long term technology sustenance and mitigating the issues of import substitution - VLSI & Embedded System Design, AI/ ML on Hardware, RF/
Analog/ Digital/ Mixed Signal technologies, Integrated MEMS and Sensor design, Navigation, Compute Logic & Storage devices etc.
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(v) Nanotechnology Initiative Division is focussed towards development of an eco-system for semiconductor manufacturing in India through
cutting edge research in Nanoelectronics, developing products/ devices for meeting the societal requirements in the country and creating world
class fabrication facilities at Nano level with following thrust areas- Post Moore Electronics, Sensors, Organic Electronics, Computational
Nanoelectronics and Setting up prototyping and incubation facilities for a range of devices/products.
(vi) National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) – The key deliverables of the mission include;Creation of supercomputing infrastructure in the
country to benefit the Academia, Researchers, MSMEs and Start-ups for meeting their compute needs and to create the capability of Design and
Manufacturing of the Supercomputers indigenously in India, under the Make-in-India initiative of the Government of India; R&D leading to next
generation Exascale computing readiness; HPC applications for national need in at least 5 major areas and Human Resource Development.
Some of the major on-going programmmes include - National Mission on Power Electronics Technology (NaMPET), Intelligent Transportation
Systems (ITS) technology, Automation Systems Technology Centre (ASTeC), Deployment of Automation technologies in process industries;
Development of medical linear accelerator, MRI; Centre of Excellences on E-Waste, Additive Manufacturing, Silicon Photonics, Rechargeable
Battery Technology (Pre-cell & Post-cell); Microprocessor Development and Special Manpower Development Programme (SMDP) for chip to
system design, Centres of Excellence in Nanoelectronics; Indian Nanoelectronics User Program (INUP).

c. R&D in CC&BT
Activities in the R&D projects are focused towards creating IPs which lead to patents, designing innovative algorithms that will make up the
product design and in developing prototypes that can give a head start in developing Technological solutions/prototypes. The activities and outputs
from these projects will contribute immensely to achieve the goals set for ‘Make in India’ and ‘Digital India’ initiatives of the Government of
India. Through R&D initiatives in Convergence Communications, Broadband Technologies and Strategic Electronics, indigenous capability is
being developed in the following areas - Next Generation Communications & Convergence technologies (Massive MIMO, Software Defined
Radio (SDR), Software Defined Networks (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Cognitive Radio, Heterogeneous Wireless Networks)
Green Communication; Cyber Physical Systems, Internet of Things (IOT) & Machine to Machine (M2M) Communications, Wireless Sensor
Networks; Convergence of wired/wireless networks and fixed mobile convergence; ICT applications in strategic sector; Broadband Wireless
Access Technologies; Visible Light Communication (VLC), Vehicular ad-hoc Networks (VANET); IP based products/ services; Electro-magnetic
wave applications; High power RF/microwave tubes; Terahertz (THz) wireless systems; Radar Systems, etc.
3. Background of the Scheme
The scope of the R&D in Information Technology, Electronics and Convergence, Communications & Broadband Technologies (R&D in IT/
Electronics/ CC&BT) Scheme encompasses the entire R&D life cycle, comprising of stages like the need assessment and idea generation,
project/programme formulation, research and innovation, developing the proof of concept, prototyping and field testing, product development and
technology transfer for commercialization.

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 In order that the efforts made are holistic and effective in accomplishing the Mission and in realizing the vision, a set of strategies are designed and
implemented to comprehensively address the needs of all the stages in the R&D life cycle. These strategies are outlined below:

i. R&D in IT Group

Under the R&D in IT Programme, research projects in various emerging areas of IT were initiated at various academic institutions and R&D
organizations. Some of the technologies developed under the programme have been transferred to industry and commercialized. The programme
has contributed in development and competence building in complex IT solutions under Perception Engineering, Bioinformatics, Free and Open
Source Software (FOSS), Information Technology Research Academy (ITRA) and Data Analytics.

ii. R&D in Electronics

• ESDA Division has developed a number of technologies and products for process control and automation required by industries. Some of the
outputs have been commercialized and being used in our country for Intelligent Transportation System, Smart cities, controllers for
Locomotives for Indian Railways, Smart Energy Metering Infrastructure, whole range of process control & instrumentation, Micro-Grid
technology for villages etc. In InTranSE Phase I four technologies has been transferred to 24 industries. (WiTraC (8), TraMM (6), CoSiCoSt
(6), iRIDS (4)). The overall outcome is availability of indigenous technology at low cost, easy to maintain and scalable for future requirements.
It has provided a good amount of inputs to make in India drive. Further, output of the division may help in providing technology and solutions
to Aatm Nirbhar Bharat initiative of Govt. of India.

• EMCD Division has established Centre of Excellences (CoEs) with participatory funding mode from Industry, state and GoI in the areas of E-
waste Recycling, Rechargeable Battery (Pre-cell & Post Cell), Additive Manufacturing, Silicon Photonics, Intelligent IoT Sensors, Quantum
Material and Graphene to provide support on materials technology, local machines and skilled manpower to the start-up and SME/ MSMEs
companies. Till date 12 sector specific CoEs have been established. EMCD is promoting blue-sky research on emerging areas like silicon
photonics, quantum materials, additive manufacturing, rechargeable battery cell, smart sensors, Semiconductor wafers for chips etc. for
strategic and commercial applications.

• Technology for Early Detection and Screening of Breast Cancer was developed using which, a simple and affordable wearable device was
developed. There is no risk of radiation exposure in using this technology and the device is portable, hence suitable for rural India. The
technology received National Award on Outstanding Efforts for Women’s Development through Application of Science and Technology
(DST, 2018) and "Nari Shakti Puraskar" (Women Power Award) by President of India in Rastrapati Bhavan on 08-03-2019. The technology
has been transferred to M/s Murata Electronics (India) Pvt. Ltd

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• Microelectronics Development Division has supported technology development and capacity building projects. Under the division, first-of-
its-kind umbrella Programme entitled "Special Manpower Development Programme for Chips to System Design (SMDP-C2SD)" was
initiated at 60 academic/ R&D institutions spread across the country including IITs, NITs, IISc & IIITs with an aim to train 50,000 number of
specialized manpower over a period of 6 years in the area of VLSI design and inculcate the culture of System-on-Chip (SoC)/ System Level
Design at Bachelors, Masters and Research level. About 150 designs fabricated by 60 academic institutions at SCL Mohali foundry &
foundries outside the country, designed indigenously from scratch using resources made available under the programme are finding
applications in 15 Working Prototype SoCs/ Systems, being developed for Strategic & Societal sectors under the programme. The SMDP-
C2SD initiative is part of the series of proactive, pre-emptive, and graded measures taken by MeitY to not only spur the Fabless Chip design
ecosystem in the country but also to pave the way towards #AtmaNirbharta in Hardware design domain in the country.

• Under Microprocessor Development Programme, a family of 32/ 64-bit variants of Microprocessors designed, developed and fabricated at
SCL foundry and foundries abroad which may not only find applications in millions in industrial/ commercial applications but also can meet
about 80% computing requirement at strategic sector and is at advanced stage of adoption by strategic sector. Also, various researchers, start-
ups& innovators are exploring its usage to develop innovative solutions around it under Swadeshi Microprocessor Challenge announced by
MeitY.
1. Under various initiatives to design, develop, deploy NavIC Receiver in the country, not only RF ASIC designed indigenously but also
NavIC Receiver Chipset made ready to be deployed in millions of volume.
2. Under various other R&D projects on emerging technologies, about 45 patents filed and 1500 research publications published in Journals/
Conferences of repute.

• Under the Nanotechnology initiative Division, State-of-the-art 6 Centre of Excellence in Nanoelectronics (CEN) established having
world class facilities at IISc Bangalore, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur and IIT Guwahati for capacity building in the
disruptive technology of Nanoelectronics. R&D activities were undertaken using these facilities which led to development of new nano-
materials, devices and few technologies. A state-of-the-art Nanofabrication facility has been created for the development of prototypes by the
SMEs and R&D organisations at IIT Bombay. Facilities for Nanometrology for Nanotechnology had been established at NPL, Delhi to provide
the traceability and calibration of few electrical and electromechanical parameters. In all, these Nano-centres have provided the necessary high-
end R&D infrastructure and the critical mass of researchers/faculties which enable the basic research and innovation to happen for their further
scale-up into products and commercialization.

• The CEN facilities opened up to researchers from all over the country through the Indian Nanoelectronics Users Programme (INUP), a joint
project of IISc, Bangalore and IIT, Bombay for widespread research and development in Nanoelectronics. The Programme has resulted in
generation of skilled manpower in the area of nanoelectronics by organising hands on workshops and train them by undertaking the R&D
projects on different aspects of nanoelectronics. A total number of 8240 persons have been trained, 717 journal/conference papers published,
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 41 patents filed and 584 theses have been supported. 53 familiarisation workshops and 103 hands-on training in Nanoelectronics have been
conducted by IISc, Bangalore and IIT, Bombay under INUP.

• These initiatives have catapulted India to become one of the leading countries today in research publications in Nanotechnology. The
programme has resulted in incubation of 10 Start-ups, 15 ToTs. 30 new material development, 10 system development, 35 lab prototypes, 25
software development, 80 Indian and international patents, 5000 manpower at various levels and 12000 Publications.

• ME&HI Division has conceptualized and financially sponsored many R&D projects in the area of Medical Electronics & Health Informatics.
A good number of technologies have developed, tested in laboratory and few of these technologies have been transferred to potential
manufacturers for commercial production. Some major technologies developed and transferred to the industry include Technology for
Microwave Disinfection System for Hospital Waste, 3D analysis system for early detection of breast cancer, CLADSan automated anaesthesia
delivery system for automated delivering of different anaesthetic drugs based on the feedback of patient condition from the monitor etc. ALab
Prototype of Colour Doppler Ultrasound Scanner System with Pre-natal Diagnostic Technique (PNDT) Compliance is developed. Besides this,
the Certification Schemes for Compliance with EHR to implement standardized Electronic Health Record at National/State level for e-
Governance in Health Care Sector is developed. It will help public and private healthcare operators to become compliant to notified EHR
standards of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.

• Development and deployment of 6MeV Linear Accelerator (LINAC), The 6 MV Medical LINAC machines Type approved by AERB are
designed and fabricated are being used for radiation therapy for cancer patients at Institute Head & Neck Oncology, Indore (Madhya Pradesh);
Amravati Cancer Hospital, Amravati (Maharashtra) and BKL Walawalkar Hospital, Chiplun, Maharashtra. As an average 30 patients are being
treated per day. The technology has been transferred to industry for commercialization.

• National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) was initiated in March 2015 as a joint Initiative of MeitY and DST which was approved by CCEA
with a total Outlay of Rs. 4500 Crore for a duration of 7 years to be implementing by C-DAC and IISc. C-DAC is entrusted with Build
Approach to build systems in phased manner (Phase-I: Assembly in India, Phase-II: Manufacturing in India, Phase-III: Design and
Manufacturing in India). The design activity includes design of compute nodes, HPC interconnect, chassis and cabinet designs, cabling and
overall system design. IISc is to procure (Buy Approach) two 650 TF systems and one 1.3 PF system to be installed at IIT Hyderabad,
JNCASR Bangalore and IIT Kanpur respectively. Some major achievements include:

• Infrastructure Creation: So far, 3 supercomputers have been installed with a total capacity of 3.28 peta flops (peak) at IIT (BHU) Varanasi,
IIT Kharagpur, IISER Pune. These systems are very effectively utilized by the researchers of the country (14 Lakh Supercomputing Jobs
already executed in various Scientific and Engineering domains by more than 1000 users). Additional 11 Supercomputers at various
institutions, covering North-East also, are being installed with total Compute Power of 16 PF under Phase-2. All these indigenously built and
manufactured supercomputers would also be connected through National Knowledge Network (NKN) which has 10 Gbps to 100 Gbps speed.
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 ▪ Applications Development: Various applications development areas have been identified and projects have been initiated in consortium
mode involving C-DAC, academia and industry. The application developments involve areas like Drug discovery, solutions for urban
environment issues, Early warning and flood prediction system for Rivers of India, Oil and Gas exploration, new material developments
and Chemistry research. CDAC and its consortia partners from IITs, IISc and other research institutes in the country are working on the
developments of these applications.

▪ Human Resource Development: Various faculty development programs, workshops, hackathons, user training programs have been
conducted to impart training in supercomputing. Four Nodal centres for training in HPC and AI have been established at IITs. Till date
more than 5000 manpower have been trained in various aspects of HPC including training in parallel programming skills, directly as well
as indirectly through the faculty, which have been trained under NSM.

▪ Research & Development: In line with “AtmaNirbhar” initiative of Govt of India, the activities under Phase-III include development of
indigenous HPC Processor, Server motherboard, HPC interconnect and system software development. The Server motherboard (Rudra)
has been developed and validated in the lab. 100 Gbps next generation indigenous HPC interconnect (Trinetra) for efficient inter-node
communication has been developed and tested. Development of a Pilot Supercomputing system based on this indigenous Server platform
and HPC network is in progress. Design for HPC high end processor with 96 Cores is initiated.

iii. R&D in CC&BT Group

• Initiatives in Next Generation Communications and Convergence have yielded some notable achievements which include development of 4G and
5G Advanced Broadband Simulator (BWSIM) technology which has been licensed to Industries and R&D organisations. Several international &
national patents and Standard Essential Patents (SEP) have been awarded in the area of 5G Technologies.

• Following important R&D infrastructure of strategic importance have been established:

(a) An Extension Centre of SAMEER Electromagnetic Environmental Effects (E3) Centre at Visakhapatnam (A.P.)
(b)SAMEER Centre for High Power Microwave Tube and Component Technology at IIT Guwahati
(c) ST RADAR system installed at Gauhati University for better understanding of atmospheric parameters.
The initiatives taken by MeitY in R&D in 5G wireless technology was very successful, and the outcome of 5G R&D project was that it lead to
many firsts in India in the field of communications as listed below.

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 • LMLC – Low Mobility Large Cell, a use case of rural India was made as a requirement for the first time because of Indian contribution to
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) when the global 5G standards development was taking place. Till now, India was adopting
technology developed by other countries, and for the first-time has developed technology that takes care of rural requirements.
• A radio interface technology named as “5Gi” was developed during this project through TSDSI and was adopted by ITU as an IMT 2020
technology for the first time, which is a global 5G standard from India. It is the only standard developed by any individual country other than
the 5G standards developed by group of multi-national companies (MNCs).
• Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) were incorporated in the “5G” and “5G” technologies for the first time from India. This will help to achieve
the vision of AtmaNirbhar Bharat.
• More than 500 Engineers, research scholars and UG/PG students were trained in 5G technology through the project over the years and has
helped to develop telecom products in India based on 5G technology by multiple Indian companies for the first time.
Apart from the above, the outcome of research led to successful incorporation of a few proprietary implementation IPRs.
following notable milestone have been achieved/progressing:
• An extension centre of SAMEER, Electromagnetic Environmental Effects (E3) Laboratory has been established at Visakhapatnam, Andhra
Pradesh for highly specialised state-of-the-art EMI/EMC test and measurement facilities including Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) and Pulse
Current Injection (PCI) to meet the strategic and civilian requirements of the country as per the International Standards.
• A MIL-STD EMC Test Laboratory at SAMEER Chennai testing centre is being set up which will enhance the confidence/repeatability of
EMI/EMC measurements with reduced uncertainties in the country. The facilities are used for EMI/EMC testing for electronics product,
defence product, electric vehicle etc.
• EMC Test Facility for testing of Strategic Electronic Systems at SAMEER, Mumbai, EMC Test Facility for testing of Strategic Electronic
Systems are important facility in the western region of the county.
Future Activities:
Following R&D projects are under consideration for initiation in FY 2022-to 2026
R&D in IT:-
Projects in the identified thrust areas like Quantum Computing, Quantum Communication, Quantum Cryptography, Applications of Artificial
Intelligence, Perception Engineering, Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data Analytics, Blockchain, & Robotics, etc. would be taken up.
R&D in Electronics:-
(i) Centre for Promotion of Additive Manufacturing (CPAM) in 7 different sectors (Digital Toy Manufacturing, Agri and Food Processing,
Sustainable Smart Packaging etc.)
(ii) Quantum Technology Intermediate Research Organization
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 (iii) National Program on Autonomous Vehicle, Drone Ecosystem, and ITS
(iv) CoE on MRI Electronics
(v) Secured Microprocessor SoCs
(vi) Exascale Computing
R&D in CCBT:-
(i) Indian Open-Source Software Platform for an end-to-end 5G Networks (IOS-5GN),
(ii) 6G: Sub-THz Wireless communication with Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRS),
(iii) 6G End-to-End Chip Communication System and
(iv) A Unified IoT Architecture and Development Framework for 5G/6G MMTC Applications

4. Whether Central Sector (CS) scheme/Centrally sponsored scheme:

It is a Central Sector Scheme.
5. Total Proposed outlay (Component-wise and Year-wise):
The proposed outlay is Rs 2891.56 crore. Apart from this, there is an additional requirement for new initiatives till FY 2025-26.
R&D in IT/ Electronics/ CC&BT scheme is the continuation of the existing ongoing scheme which is formulated and coordinated by different R&D
Groups listed below:
(i) R&D in IT Group
(ii) R&D in Electronics Group
(iii) R&D in CC&BT Group.
(iv) Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL)
(v) Emerging Technology and Innovation & IPR

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 Fund Projections under Umbrella Scheme of Digital India Programme
during the XV Finance Commission Cycle (FY 21-22 up-to FY 25-26)*

Name of the Actual BE provision Fund proposed to be Projection Projection Projection Total
Scheme Expenditure for FY 22-23 made available for for FY 23-24 for FY 24-25 for FY 25-26 fund
FY-21-22 remaining 3 Financial distribution
Years for 5 years
(FY21-
FY25)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 6 (2+3+4)
R&D in IT/ Elect./
CCBT (incl.
515.07 598.17 2891.56 1267.43 1110.95 513.18 4004.80
TDILα + TIDE
+ET+NSM)

The Group wise/ Year-wise proposed outlay for the period of FY 2023-24 to 2025-26 inclusive of NSM in R&D in Electronics/IT/CCBT, TDIL,Emerging
Technology and Innovation & IPR is as follows:

Year R&D Electronics NSM R&D in IT R&D in TDIL* Emerging Innovation Total (Rs in
CC&BT Technology* & IPR* crore)
2023-24 180.00 340.90 89.59 40.00 180.96 306.64 129.34 1267.43
2024-25 190.00 346.15 84.59 42.00 165.95 136.26 146.00 1110.95
2025-26 204.41 0.00 94.77 42.00 0.00 4.00 168.00 513.18
Total 574.41 687.05 268.95 124 346.91 446.9 443.34 2891.56
Additional Requirements: Besides increasing support in the above mentioned areas, projects need to be initiated in priority areas such as Autonomous
Vehicles, Electric Vehicles, Next Generation Communication Technologies like5G applications and use cases, 5G and Beyond, 6G (including THz
communication), Quantum Technologies and Communications, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)/drone communication, Indigenous Database System,
Indian Mobile Operating System and emerging technologies, Expansion of Additive Manufacturing and Circular Economy etc is required additional fund.
Apart from above fund requirements, additional requirement of fund is requested for new projects at later stage. The division wise detail are as follows:

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 Financial Year R&D Electronics R&D in IT CCBT TDIL Emerging Tech Total
2023-24 110 140 56.106 26.02 10 342.126
2024-25 115 140 52.234 26.03 20 353.264
2025-26 124.66 100 60 92.44 20 397.1
Total 349.66 380 168.34 144.49 50 1092.49

* More details can be seen at VIA, VIB and VIC.

Project Management Units (PMUs) are proposed to be created to assist the Programme Division officers. The additional budget requirement for PMUs for
R&D in IT, R&D in Electronics and R&D in CC&BT Groups is as follows:

S.N. Head 1st year 2nd year 3rd year Total

(In Rs. Cr) (In Rs. Cr) (In Rs. Cr) (In Rs. Cr)

1 Manpower 3.26 3.39 3.52 10.17

2 Contingencies 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.75

3 Consumable Stores 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.75

4 Travel 0.20 0.20 0.20 0.60

Total 3.96 4.09 4.22 12.27

6. Actual Expenditure of the ongoing scheme in last 5 years:

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 Sub-Scheme/Component FY 17-18(in Cr.) FY 18-19(in Cr.) FY 19-20(in Cr.) FY 20-21(in Cr.) FY 21-22 (in Cr.)

Actual Actual Actual Actual Actual

R&D in IT/ Electronics/ CCBT 100.93 179.00 427.74 420.91 515.07

7. Approved output/outcome of ongoing scheme year wise and achievements (in a tabular form):

Quantifiable output of R&D in Electronics/IT/CC&BT Group from 2017 onwards:

No Criteria Total
1 Number of Specialized Manpower Trained* 23412
2 Number of Proof of concept leading to field deployment 158
3 Number of Transfer of Technology (ToT) to industry 51
4 Number of technologies commercialized by ToT partners leading to production 223
5 Industry collaboration for research to handhold technology/ know-how 17
6 Collaborative research realized through networking of R&D organizations 15
7 Number of Patents/ Copyright obtained /IPRs filed 184
8 Number of publications 1727
* Special training to persons reflects the technical projects staff working under the projects for entire duration of the projects (which is generally of the
duration of 2 years/ 3 years, etc.)
8. Existing and proposed funding pattern (in a tabular form) along with rationale:
R&D in IT/ Electronics/ CC&BT is a sub-scheme under the Central Sector Scheme namely Digital India Programme. All the projects being
implemented under the scheme are fully funded (100%) primarily as Grant-in –Aid (GIA) and the same pattern is proposed to be continued.

9. Major findings of evaluation / outcome review and comments of the Ministry / Department on each observation of the scheme (Attach
evaluation report):
The sub-scheme was evaluated by the Independent Evaluation Committee in September, 2019 for continuation of scheme beyond 2020 (Evaluation
report enclosed at Annexure ‘A’). The committee discussed all the programs in details and found that achievements of the scheme during the

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evaluation period (2017-2020) were satisfactory. R&D Scheme had already included the objectives and goals of National Electronics Policy 2019 and
some of the outcomes were already in line with the Policy. Physical outcomes by each division under the R&D(Electronics), R&D(CC&BT),
R&D(IT) and High Performance Computing were quite extensive and satisfactory as per the set objectives and budget allocation. The committee also
appreciated the vast knowledgebase of scientists, undertaking the activities in each division. The Committee provided the following comments/
suggestions on the program:
• The Committee had appreciated the exiting robust R&D programme of MeitY, which embraced from materials, chip design, components
development, system design, software development, broadband communication like 5G products, which were desirable for the mission mode
programmes like Digital India, Make in India and Skill India of Government of India. It was observed that in spite of budgetary constraint
outcomes had been achieved, some of which was included as a initial state
• The Committee observed that all the research areas could not be translated readily; therefore, the areas need to be prioritized based on the
country needs.
• It was also mentioned blue sky research in some of the emerging areas would be important so as to cope up with ever changing technology in
Electronics and ICT.
• Planned activities beyond 2020 would be very timely and would cater to the desired objectives of the country’s economic growth.
• R&D Scheme should focus on future technologies and lay out techno-commercial roadmaps for both commercial and strategic sectors.
• Several promising new projects would need budgetary allocations.
• The Committee suggested keeping privacy policy at its highest importance when dealing with medical data processing.
• Thrust area evolution should also be based on the use cases, particularly for service based software products. Smart City and Metro systems
use cases could be considered for indentifying thrust area.
• Policy recommendation should be made to encourage adoption of local manufacturing of indigenous technologies by local industries.
• Regular technology showcasing for the repository of developed technologies and creation of Dashboard should be undertaken for better
dissemination of information towards the end-users
• Committee suggested regular brainstorming sessions with local industry for market pull analysis and creation of public private partnership for
R&D.
• The Committee felt that industry collaboration during implementation of R&D projects would be necessary for seamless transfer of
technology (ToT).

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 • It was suggested that incentives such as waiver of ToT cost could be contemplated to attract local industry. In such cases cost recovery could
be carried out through royalty model. Special focus to R&D on electronic components for local manufacturers needs to be given for mitigating
high import costs.
• Continuous increase in budgetary support would be essential and strongly recommended continuation of sub-schemes beyond 2020.
The Committee provided the following recommendations for R&D Scheme:
(a) Central Sector Sub-scheme Research and Development in Electronics/ IT/ CC&BT should be continued beyond 2020.
(b) The Committee strongly recommended that budget for the Sub-scheme should significantly be enhanced each year with immediate effect to
achieve the mission goals of Make in India, Digital India and Skill India.
(c) The Committee felt that MeitY being high technology Ministry, an independent budget line should be created for support R&D scheme.
(d) Fund recommended for the scheme till 2025 is as under:

Year* Budget (Rs. in Cr)*

2020-21 965

2021-22 1000

2022-23 973

2023-24 827

2024-25 715

Total 4480

The present approval for the R&D scheme is extended till 2020-21 pending report of the 15th Finance Commission. The actual budget allocated under the
National Supercomputing Mission in the last five years was only Rs.522 Cr. against the approved allocation of Rs. 1621 Cr. which is far less than the
approved budget. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing projects have been extended by a year which has resulted in additional budget. Also, the
budget allocation of Rs.830 Cr has been included in the above fund requirement for TDIL Programme which was not factored in earlier. In light of this,
the above-mentioned table has been revised curtailing the overall budget outlay and is placed as below:
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 Year Budget (Rs. In Cr)

2021-22 465.80
465.80
2022-23
465.80
2023-24
465.80
2024-25
465.80
2025-26

Total 2329

10. Major changes / departure proposed from earlier scheme along with justification:
Nil
11. Major changes in costing norms, if any:
Nil
12. Convergence architecture with other central government schemes:

The R&D in IT/ Electronics/ CCBT” Sub-scheme is under the umbrella scheme of Digital India Programme. Efforts for collaborative/ joint research and
development of technologies at national level with other Ministries are being initiated.

13. Rationale for continuation:

The Information, Communication Technology and Electronics (ICTE) is the world’s largest and fastest growing industry and is increasingly finding
applications in all sectors of the economy. With its impact in raising productivity, increasing efficiency in delivery of services and improving life style, it
has come to the accepted as a key enabler in development and is globally being accepted as a “Meta-resource”. The competitiveness of various industries
is increasingly being determined by their ability to integrate ICTE in their business processes.

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The promotion of Research and Development (R&D) in Electronics/ IT/ CC&BT areas is an ongoing activity of MeitY supported by way of a dedicated
scheme, keeping in view that these sectors are the key players in the economy and are the most globalised industries in the world. In order to progressively
increase the value addition in these sectors, a sustained and focused R&D programme is essential for the development of indigenous technologies with
domestic design and supply chain. In order to promote an inclusive, vibrant and sustainable ecosystem for R&D and innovation, the government, industry
and academia are working together on a common platform to find solutions for the growing economic and societal needs & challenges. Towards achieving
these goals, three different R&D Groups in Electronics/ IT/ CC&BT have initiated supporting various research programmes in different areas of
technology for the overall growth of these sectors in the country. This scheme is formulated and coordinated by the respective Groups as listed below:
(i) R&D in Electronics
(ii) R&D in Information Technology
(iii)R&D in Convergence Communications & Broadband Technologies

14. Proposed output/outcomes year-wise:

Various parameters chosen to assess the scheme performance include number of prototypes developed, Transfer of Technologies, technology
deployments, patent/copyright generated, and research publications, etc. Manpower development and capacity building among the academic and R&D
institutions in these emerging technologies areas is also important assess scheme performance. Hence, envisaged outcome from R&D in IT, R&D in
Electronics and R&D in CC&BT Group under the “R&D in IT Scheme/ Electronics/ CC&BT” scheme include:

2023-24 2024-25 2025-26

Outcome Indicators (s) Targets Targets Targets

No. of projects to be undertaken 92 102 113

(Includes collaborative projects which has large number of
sub-projects to address the technological demand of that
sector/area)

No. of S&T manpower trained in the project/ PhD provided. 575 595 615

No of Proof of concept leading to field deployment. 29 31 34

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 No. of Transfer of Technology (TOT) 10 12 14

No. of Patents/ Copyright obtained/ IPRs filed 19 22 24

No. of publications 140 145 150

No. of Commercialization of Technologies 4 5 10

* The projects are generally of 2/3 years duration etc.

15. Sunset date:
R&D in IT/ Electronics/ CCBT sub-scheme is a Continuing Scheme since the inception of the Ministry, where each project has its own budgetary
requirement and implementation duration and has been expanding over the years to include and promote indigenous development of various
technological activities in different sectors.

16. Details of posts created for the Scheme (Regular/Contractual separately) and the number of persons engaged against them with annual
financial implications:
NIL.

17. Any additional posts proposed to be created with annual financial implication:
NIL

18. Comments of other stakeholders including Ministries/Departments/NITI Aayog and response thereon (in a tabular form)

The EFC note on continuing schemes under Digital India programme beyond March 31, 2021, was circulated for inter-ministerial consultations. The
scheme-wise comments / suggestions were received from Ministries / Departments and the response on the same from Programme Division are placed at
Annexure-C-Overall Inter-ministerial Consultations.

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Annexure-VI-B
(Rs. in Crore)

SCHEMES TO BE APPRAISED BY EFC

S.N. Scheme Actual Total Proposed Outlay for next 3 5.5 times of Remarks
Expenditure Years (FY 2023-24 to FY 2025- actual of FY (If any)
FY 2019-20 26)* 2019-20
VI R&D in IT/ 427.74 Rs. 2891.56 Crore. 2352.57 Additional budget requirement
Electronics/ CCBT Rs.1092.49 Crore for new initiatives in
including NSM, new areas such as Autonomous
#
TDIL , Emerging Vehicles, Electric Vehicles, Next
Technology and Generation Communication
Innovation & IPR Technologies like 5G applications and
use cases, 5G and beyond, 6G (including
THz communication), Quantum
Technologies and Communications,
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
(UAV)/drone communication,
Indigenous Database System, Indian
Mobile Operating System and emerging
technologies, Expansion of Additive
Manufacturing and Circular Economy
etc.
#
The Standing Finance Committee, in its meeting held on 17.2.2021, has appraised the Mission titled “National Language Translation Mission (NLTM):
Bhashini” under the TDIL project of the sub-scheme ‘R&D in Electronics, IT and CC&BT’.

* The outlay may be provided including:-

• Expenditure in FY 2021-22:- Rs.515.07 Crore

• BE for FY 2022-23:- Rs. 598.17 Crore

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VII. Cyber Security Projects (NCCC & Others) Scheme

Cyber Security Group manages the implementation of the Cyber Security Projects (NCCC and others). This scheme has two components namely NCCC,
R&D and others in Cyber Security. The details are as follows:

Part B

1. Name of the Scheme:

Cyber Security Projects (NCCC and Others) Scheme

2. Objectives of the Scheme:

This scheme consists of two components:

1) NCCC programme
The setting up of National Cyber Coordination Center (NCCC) is a part of the framework for enhancing cyber security of Indian cyber space by
recognizing the importance and need for cyber threat situational awareness. National Cyber Coordination Centre has been proposed as one of the
key projects under Digital India to provide safe and secure cyber space. NCCC will scan the cyber space in the country and will generate real time
situational awareness and proactive cyber threat detection at the national level. The setting up of NCCC will help in securing cyber space and
strengthening the cyber security posture in the country.

2) Cyber Security R&D and others

Cyber Security R&D program has created a critical mass of researchers in the cyber security technology areas, which needs to be sustained. The
technical innovations have taken a faster rate. The new types of a product are required to address the new emerging threats. Recognizing the
importance and need for cyber threat situational awareness for protecting the Indian cyber space at the national level in a proactive manner, in the
major domains namely (i) Threat Intelligence using Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning, (ii) IoT, mobile Security, (iii)Quantum Cryptography
and Secure Quantum Cryptographic Data transfer, (iv) Embedded Devices Security, (v)5G, Fog and Edge Computing, Security, Blockchain, Cloud
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Security Solutions,(vi)Social Media Analytics including Sentiment Analysis, (vii)Cyber Forensics Tool and (viii) capacity building and innovation in
the area of cyber security would be undertaken in next 5 Years and the Budget Requirements for Next 5 years.

Major ongoing initiatives include (i) Cyber Security Technology Development and Centre of Excellence, (ii) facility for Evaluating and Testing
security of mobile applications and its threat evaluation, (iii) facility for Security Testing, Evaluation and Certification of IoT Devices &
Embedded Systems leading to Security Assurance, (iv) development of a Zero Trust Network Access system,(v) initiative Cyber Security Aware
Society in NE States,(v) development of Cyber Forensic Training cum Investigation Labs in North-Eastern States and Cloud based centralized Cyber
Forensics Lab Infrastructure and(vi) centre on Hardware Security: Hardware Security Entrepreneurship Research& Development (HERD).

3. Background of the Scheme:

A. The setting up of NCCC is a part of the framework for enhancing Cyber Security of Indian Cyber Space by recognizing the importance and need
for cyber threat situational awareness. National Cyber Coordination Centre has been proposed as one of the key projects under Digital India to
provide safe and secure cyber space. The project for setting up of National Cyber Coordination Centre (NCCC) and eGov SOC at the total cost of
Rs. 985 Crores over a period of five (5) years was approved by Hon’ble MCIT in February 2015. Ministry of Finance, Dept. of Expenditure also
approved initiation of project in April 2015. The total budget approved for NCCC project was Rs. 770 Cr.
The NCCC is a multi-stakeholder entity. The NCCC is conceived to generate an aggregated view of the malicious activities taking place in cyber
space in the country and to facilitate all stakeholders for coordinated action. NCCC will have close interaction with identified critical Central and
State government agencies, Security Operations Centres (SOCs)/Network Operations Centres (NOCs) where repository of Central Government
Information Systems and e-Gov Services are hosted as well as the private sector. The role of NCCC will be limited only to collection and analysis
of basic meta data relating to cyber security breaches, creation of threat model and generation of situational awareness, alerts, and reports. The
NCCC conceptual architecture and other assets will be scalable to handle around 2.5 million events per second (eps) and traffic flows from a total
traffic of 6 Tbps. The metadata inputs will be collected from Internet Service Providers (ISPs), State Data Centres (SDCs), large, small & medium
organisations. All the key organisations including ISPs (about 275) in the country will be covered for the purpose of data collection. The phase-I of
NCCC has been operationalized in July 2017 and phase-II implementation is in progress.

4. Whether Central Sector (CS) or Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS)

Central Sector Scheme

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5. Total Proposed Outlay (Component-wise and year-wise)

Scheme Total FY2 FY3 FY4 FY5

(E.g. (E.g. (E.g. (E.g.
Cyber Security FY 2022-23) FY 2023-24) FY 2024-25) FY 2025-26)
Projects
NCCC Rs. 2952.88 Cr. 260.00 Cr. 387.38 Cr. 1350.00 Cr. 955.50 Cr.

Cyber Security R&D Rs. 190 Cr. 40.00 Cr. 45.00 Cr. 50.00 Cr. 55.00 Cr.
others
Total Rs 3142.88 Cr. 300.00 Cr. 432.38 Cr. 1400.00 Cr. 1010.50 Cr.

Refer Point 11 for justification.

6. Actual Expenditure of the ongoing scheme in last 3 years

Scheme FY1 FY2 FY3

(E.g. (E.g. (E.g.
FY 2019-20) FY 2020-21) FY 2021-22)
NCCC Rs. 19.48 Cr. +Rs. 40.35 Cr. were spent Rs. 57.82 Cr. Rs. 288.08 Cr.
under the head Cyber Security (CERT-In &
NCCC) -Machinery and Equipment
Cyber Security R&D Rs. 32.24 Cr Rs. 22.17 Cr Rs. 34.04 Cr.
Total Rs. 92.07 Cr Rs. 79.99 Cr Rs. 322.12 Cr

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7. Approved output/outcome of ongoing scheme year-wise and achievements (in a tabular form)

a) NCCC

Year Approved output / outcomes Achievements

FY1(E.g.FY2019-20) (1) Aggregation of metadata from participating (1) Aggregation of metadata from 22 nos. of remote
organizations and ISPs. [ Target of 25 nos. of sites of participating organizations and ISPs was
Remote sites] achieved.

(2) Detection, classification and trace back of (2) 100% Detection, classification and trace back of
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack traffic
traffic on participating organizations and ISPs on participating organizations and ISPs was
[ Target of 100% detection of DDoS attacks ] achieved.

(3) Confidence of detection of malware/ virus (3) 90% Confidence of detection of malware/ virus
outbreaks in participating organization outbreaks in participating organizations' network
network [ Target of 90% confidence of was achieved.
detection of malware/virus outbreaks ]

FY2(E.g.FY2020-21) (1) Aggregation of metadata from participating (1) Initiated for aggregation of metadata from 8% (22
organizations and ISPs. [ Target of 27% of nos. of sites) sites of participating organizations and
sites to be covered as per overall project scope ISPs as per overall scope of 275 sites.
of 275 sites)
(2) Detection, classification and trace back of (2) Actions are being taken for 100% detection,
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack classification and trace back of Distributed Denial of
traffic on participating organizations and ISPs Service (DDoS) attack traffic on participating
[ Target of 100% detection of DDoS attacks ] organizations and ISPs.

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 (3) Confidence of detection of malware/ virus (3) Actions are being taken for 90% confidence of
outbreaks in participating organization detection of malware/ virus outbreaks in
network [ Target of 90% confidence of participating organizations' network.
detection of malware/virus outbreaks ]

FY3(FY2021-22) (1) Aggregation of metadata from participating (1) Initiated for aggregation of metadata from 14% (38
organizations and ISPs. [ Target of 50% of nos. of sites) sites of participating organizations and
sites to be covered as per overall project scope ISPs as per overall scope of 275 sites
of 275 sites)
(2) Actions to be taken up for 100% detection,
(2) Detection, classification and trace back of classification and trace back of Distributed Denial of
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack Service (DDoS) attack traffic on participating
traffic on participating organizations and ISPs organizations and ISPs.
[ Target of 100% detection of DDoS attacks ]
(3) Actions to be taken up for 90% confidence of
(3) Confidence of detection of malware/ virus detection of malware/ virus outbreaks in
outbreaks in participating organization participating organizations' network.
network [ Target of 90% confidence of
detection of malware/virus outbreaks]

b) Cyber Security R&D and Others

Year Approved output / outcomes Achievements

FY1 (FY2017-18) 1) No of New R&D Projects initiated in the areas (1) 3 New Projects in the areas of Cyber Security namely
of Cyber Security: 2 (2) No of Technologies Cyber Forensics & Network Security has been initiated
Developed:2 (2) Proof –of Concept of 2 Technologies (1) Network
Traffic monitoring –EWF developed (2) Enhanced Cyber
Forensics Tools Developed.
FY2 (FY2018-19) (1) No of New R&D Projects initiated in the areas (1) 3 New Projects in the areas of Cyber Security namely

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 of Cyber Security: 2 (2) No of Technologies Cyber Forensics & Network Security has been initiated
Developed:2 (2) Proof of Concept of 2 Technologies (1) Advanced
Social Media Analytics Tool (AASMA) (2) MKavach –
Mobile Security Solution has been developed. • AASMA
Tool has been deployed in 61 locations of Law Enforcing
and Intelligence Agencies • M-Kavach 3, 79,000+
downloads; launched as part of “Cyber Swachhta
Kendra” (Botnet Cleaning and Malware Analysis Centre)
FY3 (FY2019-20) (1) No of New R&D Projects initiated in the areas (1) 3 New Projects in the areas of Cyber Security namely
of Cyber Security: 2 (2) No of Technologies Cyber Forensics & Network Security has been initiated
Developed:2 (2) Proof of Concept of 3 Technologies (1) Advanced
Steganography Tool (2) Face Recognition System (3)
SCADA security Solution has been developed.
Steganography Tool and Face Recognition Tools are
presently being examined by MHA for pilot deployment
(3) SCADA security solution –pilot deployment in
Southern Regional Load Despatch Centre (SRLDC). The
Solution is being examined by CEA for implementation
of Critical Infrastructure Security for Power Sector
FY4 (FY2020-21) (1) No of New R&D Projects initiated in the areas (1) 4 New Projects in the areas of Cyber Security namely
of Cyber Security: 3 (2) No of Technologies Cyber Forensics & Network Security has been initiated
Developed :2 (2) Proof –of Concept of 3 technologies in the areas of
Cyber Security developed
FY5 (FY2021-22) (1) No of New R&D Projects initiated in the areas (1) 4 New Projects in the areas of Cyber Security namely
of Cyber Security: 3 (2) No of Technologies Cyber Forensics & Network Security has been initiated
Developed :2 (2) Proof –of Concept of 2 technologies in the areas of
Cyber Security developed:
(i)solution for detecting Malware in Embedded device,(ii)
detecting Spoofing and Digital Attacks on Face Images.
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 (3)Developed cyber forensics software tools Web
Investigator and Forensic Data Analytics Tool
(4)Setting up of a state-of-the-art Collaborative and
Comprehensive Live Cyber Operations Specific Exercise
Training Facility (Cyber Closet) for Indian Cyber Space.

FY6(FY2022-23) (1) No of New R&D Projects initiated in the areas 4 new projects in the emerging areas of cyber security are
of Cyber Security: 3 (2) No of Technologies expected to be initiated.
Developed:2

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8. Existing and proposed funding pattern (in a tabular form) along with rationale

Existing Funding Pattern Proposed Funding Pattern Rationale

The NCCC Project is being (1) Core components of NCCC would NCCC activities are continuous one which is
implemented by CERT-In by engaging be implemented through R&D/Academic being implemented and managed by CERT-In
MeitY institution like C-DAC, STPI institutions through GIA Support and operations of NCCC is to be continued as
and R&D/Academic institutions integral part of activities of CERT-In and not as
through Grant-in-Aid Support. (2) Operations of NCCC is to be a project mode. There will be a small component
continued as integral part of activities of under Grants-in-Aid (GIA) budget head every to
CERT-In under the main budget head of support core components of NCCC being
CERT-In from F.Y. 2021-22 onwards implemented through R&D/Academic
institutions.

Projects are being implemented by All the projects being implemented under the Start-ups needs to be roped in for innovation,
R&D / Academic institutions through scheme are fully funded (100%) primarily as Grant- product development and proliferation of cyber
Grant-in-Aid Support. in-Aid (GIA) and the same pattern is proposed to be security products. This would boost the
continued. innovation and accelerate the overall growth of
cyber security industry ecosystem in the
country.

9. Major findings of evaluation / outcome review and comments of the Ministry / Department on each observation of the scheme (Attach
evaluation report)

Evaluation report’s name and brief details Major Observations Comments of Ministry / Department
on each of the observations

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Report1 name: “Evaluation of Scheme Observation 1: Comment 1: Initiatives are being taken
“Cyber Security Projects (NCCC & Others)” Cyber Security R&D Program has as per recommendations.
Published by Third Party Evaluation created a critical mass of researchers in
Committee the cyber security technology areas,
which needs to be sustained.
Dated: July 2020
Observation 2:
The Committee reviewed the projects
and recommended that based on the
experience gained, the Programme
need to be more focused, strengthened
and expanded.
The Ministry must evolve a model to
fund projects to the startup units in the
private sector to leverage the potential
and talent available in such startups. It
will help in employment generation and
encouraging the technology
development culture in the country.

Observation 3:
A Third-Party Evaluation committee
was constituted for evaluation of
continuation of the scheme “Cyber
security projects (NCCC & Others) for
continuation of all the activities under
the scheme beyond March 2020.

The committee in its report mentioned

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 that NCCC is core component of cyber
security eco system in the country.
NCCC was conceived as multi agency
project under overall supervision and
facilitation on CERT-In.

The committee recommended

strengthening NCCC project by
allocating sufficient funds, adequate and
appropriate manpower.

(Note: The committee report is a Secret document. Hence, sharing/forwarding of the report is restricted)

10. Major changes / departure proposed from earlier scheme along with justification

Major Changes / departure from earlier scheme Justification

Change 1: Efforts would be initiated to implement schemes for Start-ups and MSME sector needs to be roped in for innovation,
supporting Start-ups/ MSME for innovation in solution product development and proliferation of cyber security
development and Productization products. This would boost the innovation and accelerate the
overall growth of cyber security industry ecosystem in the
country.

11. Major changes in costing norms, if any

NCCC

Owing to speedy rise in Internet traffic within the country and corresponding storage requirement for 1 year, the traffic data needs to be
integrated at NCCC for proactive threat detection and situational awareness, cost has also increased accordingly. Department of Telecom (DoT) is

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setting up Telecom Security Operations Centre (TSOC) which is collecting traffic flows from ISP gateways in the country and will share them
with NCCC. Further, NCCC will make arrangements for storage of traffic data for a period of 1 year and carryout security analytics to detect cyber
threats in near real-time. Also, increased internet traffic collected by TSOC from the ISP gateways will be integrated with NCCC on a continuous
basis. Around 20 such gateways are targeted to be covered at the earliest and 100 more will be covered within 02 years. In this regard proposal to
collect, store and analyze traffic flows from 120 ISP gateways planned to be implemented in phases, initially covering 20 ISP gateways and
subsequently 100 more is being prepared. In order to meet this requirement funds of about Rs. 230 Cr. for the collection of 20 ISP gateways
including the annual recurring expenditure of about Rs. 35 Cr. are required. Further after 01 year, funds of approx. Rs. 970 Cr. to collect traffic
flows from 100 more ISP gateways including annual expenses of Rs. 195 Cr. will be required. All this expenditure will be required for capital item
procurement, MPLS connectivity and Datacentre expenses. Hence, total additional budget of Rs 1,200 crore is required for three financial years
from FY23-to-FY25.

75 nos. S&T and non-S&T manpower and separate office space for CERT-In and NCCC Data Centre (DC) for about 500 racks at the primary Data
centre and 250 racks at Disaster Recovery (DR) Data centre will also be required at an approx. expenditure of around Rs. 1600 Cr. This space will
be owned by CERT-In and demand will be projected in due course of time once land for DC and DR is finalised.

Additional funds requirement owning to the above-mentioned activities (apart from NCCC operational expenditure under existing projects) are as
below:
Amount: in Rs. Crore

Year FY3 FY4 FY5

Item FY (2023-24) FY (2024-25) FY (2025-26)
Integration of 20 ISP Sites 175 20 0
Support & Maintenance for 20 ISP Sites 0 0 35
Integration of 100 ISP Sites 0 650 125
Support & Maintenance for 100 ISP Sites 0 0 195
Total (in Rs. Crore) 175 670 355

Table: Funds required for integration of ISPs and their expected expenditure plan for FY 2023-24 to 2025-26

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 Data Centre is the primary space to host servers and other networking devices for collection of various types of data in a centralized controlled
environment. At present Primary Data Centre and Disaster Recovery Centre is hired from various organizations and is located at multiple locations i.e
Noida, Bangalore, Mohali and New Delhi. There is no centralized control over the entire infrastructure. Since the places at Noida, Bangalore and Mohali
are on rental basis, huge rent amount is being paid which is a loss to the Govt of India. Thus there is a requirement to build own Data Centre and
Disaster Recovery Site so as to have centralized control, better management and saving huge rental being paid to various organizations. The project
will be implemented at the location suitable for building, development and setting up of Primary Data Centre and Disaster Recovery Centre. An
approximate area of 20.0 acres and 8.0 acre will be required to build a Data Centre and its associated services in multi-storey each for Primary Data
Centre and Disaster Recovery Centre site respectively. Primary Data Centre and Disaster Recovery Centre will be developed at two different locations
situated in two different seismic zones. An approx. expenditure for building Primary Data Centre is Rs 950 Crores, Disaster Recovery Centre is Rs
500 Crore and Support & Maintenance is approx. Rs 350 crores. Additional Fund requirement for above mentioned project is as under:-

Year FY3 FY4 FY5 FY6

Item FY (2023-24) FY (2024-25) FY (2025-26) FY ( 2026-27)
Building and setting up of Primary Data Centre 0 640 560 600
along with Disaster Recovery Centre, Office
space of CERT-In, NCCC with all auxiliary
services along with Support & Maintenance for a
duration of 10 years from the date of acceptance
and AMC of all products and services for a period
of 07 years from the date of completion of 3 Yrs
warranty.
Total (in Rs. Crore) 0* 640 560 600

Note:- FY 2023-24 will be utilized for selection, allocation of land at two different locations along with approval of the project.
It is assumed that land will be allocated from Govt, thus land cost is not considered in the above proposal.

Details of the NCCC ongoing projects and their expected expenditure plan for FY 2023-24 to 2025-26 is as under:-

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 Name of the project Implementing Agencies FY 2023-24 FY 2024 -25 FY 2025-26 Total
Support and Maintenance of Indigenous Cyber
Amrita University 2.89 2.66 0.00 5.55
Security Solutions at TSAP
Deployment of Indigenous software solution
Amrita University 6.83 6.83 0.00 13.66
under NCCC Phase-II Stage 1
Procurment of Hardware, Software. Bandwidth,
Networking Component for Implementation of ERNET India 157.00 0.00 0.00 157.00
NCCC Phase II stage 2
Deployment of Indigenous software solution
Amrita University 23.80 10.00 0.00 33.80
under NCCC Phase-II Stage 2
Support and maintenance of infrastructure and
TBD/Amrita University 9.37 10.00 30.00 49.37
indegous solution under NCCC Phase II stage 2
Cyber Security Training of officials of NCCC TBD 2.00 0.00 0.00 2.00
R & D projects for NCCC TBD 10.00 10.00 10.00 30.00
Support &Maintenance for Nation wide
CDAC Mohali 0.50 0.50 0.50 1.50
deployment of Honeypots
TOTAL 212.39 39.99 40.50 292.88

Table: Funds required for NCCC ongoing projects and their expected expenditure plan for FY 2023-24 to 2025-26

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Total fund required for NCCC is as under:-

Year FY 2023-24 FY 2024-25 FY 2025-26 Total Fund

NCCC 387.38 Cr. 1350.00 Cr. 955.50 Cr. 2692.88

Note:- For FY 2026-27, an amount of Rs 600.00 Cr may pl be allocated for building Data Centre, Disaster Recovery Centre and
office space for CERT-In, NCCC.

Cyber Security R&D and Other: No Major Change in Costing Norms.

12. Convergence architecture with other central government schemes

Collaborative efforts for joint development of technologies at national level with other Ministries and Funding agencies are being initiated.

13. Rationale for continuation

NCCC: The following recommendations of the committee may be considered for continuation of NCCC :
i. With the progress of digital transformation, innovation in technologies and application of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Big
Data and IOT, there is a significant surge in Cyber incidents and cyber security breaches. The work from home has become a norm. It is
imperative that the resiliency of cyber space in the country be enhanced significantly. The NCCC was setup to monitor the cyber breaches
and incidents in the cyber space in the country. It is core component of the cyber security eco system in the country. The present NCCC
needs to be significantly expanded in terms of monitoring of the technological driven breaches, scaling up of operation in terms of
analyzing larger communication traffic and organizations. The resources in terms of manpower and funds needs to be provided with a
priority to NCCC so as to sustain and address the challenges with respect to cyber breaches.
ii. NCCC is a multi agency project. All the stakeholders have their role w.r.t. their domain. It must be ensured that the stakeholder provide
full support to NCCC. Any attempt to set up another such project, before NCCC is stabilized and mature will be detrimental to the cyber
security eco system. The Department of Telecommunication, in particular, must cooperate and provide support in obtaining the feed to
NCCC.
iii. NCCC, due to its specialized nature be permitted to recruit the technical manpower directly from the academic institutions.

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 iv. NCCC may consider setting up a technical advisory committee to help and advise them with regard to the infrastructure.
v. NCCC may consider different modes of procurement of the equipment than the present one through CDAC, Trivandrum. The latter has
considerably delayed the procurement resulting in delay in implementation of the project.
vi. The internet traffic in the country is growing at an exponential rate. NCCC envisages to cover entire internet traffic in the country and
store it for 1 year so that same can be used by various stakeholders for undertaking historical analysis and forensics to make Indian
cyberspace secure. Department of Telecommunications (DoT) through its Telecom SOC (TSOC) will collect traffic flows from 120 ISPs
of Telecom sector and share with NCCC. NCCC will collect the traffic flows from TSOC and make arrangements for 01 year storage of
traffic data and carryout analytics for threat detection and situational awareness. Necessary equipment for computing & storage servers,
networking infrastructure, MPLS connectivity and security analytics software solutions will be procured and deployed by NCCC.

Cyber Security R&D and others

Cyber Security R&D and others has created a critical mass of researchers in the cyber security technology areas, which needs to be sustained. An

independent Expert Committee reviewed the projects and recommended that based on the experience gained, the Programme need to be more

focused, strengthened and expanded. The technical innovations have taken a faster rate involving AI, Machine Learning, Big Data and IOT etc.

New threats have and are emerging. The new types of a product are required to address the new emerging threats. Most of the existing funding

gets consumed in sustaining the already running project, leaving thereby no funds for taking up projects to address the new Cyber Security

challenges. The total funding for the Cyber R&D scheme, therefore, needs to be significantly augmented. In the next 5 years, under the Cyber

Security R&D Programme, new projects in the areas of (i) Threat Intelligence using Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning, (ii) IoT, mobile

Security, (iii)Quantum Cryptography and Secure Quantum Cryptographic Data transfer, (iv) Embedded Devices Security, (v)5G, Fog and Edge
Computing, Security, blockchain, Cloud Security Solutions, (vi) Social Media Analytics including Sentiment Analysis, (vii)Cyber Forensics Tool
and (viii) capacity building & innovation in the area of cyber security would be undertaken leading to development of indigenous products and
solutions. Efforts would also be initiated for development cyber security industry ecosystem and product innovation involving Start-ups.

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14. Proposed output/outcomes year-wise

a) NCCC

Proposed output/outcomes
FY2 (FY2022-23) (1) Aggregation of metadata from participating organizations and ISPs. [ Target of 100% of sites
to be covered as per overall project scope of 275 sites)
(2) Detection, classification, and trace back of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack
traffic on participating organizations and ISPs [ Target of 100% detection of DDoS attacks]
(3) Confidence of detection of malware/ virus outbreaks in participating organizations network
[Target of 90% confidence of detection of malware/virus outbreaks]
(4) Nationwide deployment of honeypot sensors to create a network of sensors for generation of
reliable and actionable threat intelligence which could be analyzed and shared with various
organizations for threat prevention and proactive threat detection to secure Indian cyberspace.
Under the project, 750 Honeypot Sensors will be deployed across the country.
(5) Integration of traffic flows through TSOC from 120 ISP gateways for Collection, Storage and
Analysis: Planned to be implemented in phases, initially covering 20 ISP gateways and
subsequently 100 more. Further, as more traffic will be captured by TSOC, the same shall be
shared with NCCC which will be stored and analysed.
FY3 (FY2023-24) (1) Operations and maintenance of aggregation of metadata from 275 sites of participating
organizations and ISPs to carry out near real-time threat assessment and situational awareness
to secure Indian cyberspace
(2) Detection, classification, and trace back of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack
traffic on participating organizations and ISPs [ Target of 100% detection of DDoS attacks]
(3) Confidence of detection of malware/ virus outbreaks in participating organizations' network [
Target of 90% confidence of detection of malware/virus outbreaks]
(4) Operations and maintenance of nationwide network of 750 honeypot sensors.
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 (5) Integration, operations and maintenance of project involving collection, storage and analysis
of traffic flows from 20 ISP gateways through TSOC. Further, as more traffic will be
captured by TSOC, the same shall be shared with NCCC which will be stored and analysed.
FY4 (FY2024-25) (1) Operations and maintenance of aggregation of metadata from 275 sites of participating
organizations and ISPs to carry out near real-time threat assessment and situational awareness
to secure Indian cyberspace
(2) Detection, classification, and trace back of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack
traffic on participating organizations and ISPs [ Target of 100% detection of DDoS attacks]
(3) Confidence of detection of malware/ virus outbreaks in participating organization network [
Target of 90% confidence of detection of malware/virus outbreaks]
(4) Operations and maintenance of nationwide network of 750 honeypot sensors.
(5) Integration, Operations and maintenance of project involving collection, storage and analysis
of traffic flows from 120 ISP gateways through TSOC. Further, as more traffic will be
captured by TSOC, the same shall be shared with NCCC which will be stored and analysed.
(6) Creation of 500 racks Primary and 250 racks Disaster Recovery (DR) Datacentres for NCCC
and CERT-In and office space for CERT-In
FY5 (FY2025-26) (1) Operations and maintenance of aggregation of metadata from 275 sites of participating
organizations and ISPs to carry out near real-time threat assessment and situational awareness
to secure Indian cyberspace
(2) Detection, classification, and trace back of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack
traffic on participating organizations and ISPs [ Target of 100% detection of DDoS attacks]
(3) Confidence of detection of malware/ virus outbreaks in participating organization network [
Target of 90% confidence of detection of malware/virus outbreaks]
(4) Operations and maintenance of nationwide network of 750 honeypot sensors.
(5) Operations and maintenance of project involving collection, storage and analysis of traffic
flows from 120 ISP gateways through TSOC. Further, as more traffic will be captured by
TSOC, the same shall be shared with NCCC which will be stored and analysed.
(6) Creation of 500 racks Primary and 250 racks Disaster Recovery (DR) Datacentres for NCCC
and CERT-In and office space for CERT-In

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b) Cyber Security R&D and others

FY1 (FY2021-22) (1) Number of New Projects to be initiated in the new and emerging areas of Cyber
Security: 3
(2) No of Proof-of Concept of Technologies Developed:2

FY2 (FY2022-23) (1) Number of New Projects to be initiated in the new and emerging areas of Cyber
Security: 3
(2) No of Proof-of Concept of Technologies Developed:2

FY3 (FY2023-24) (1) Number of New Projects to be initiated in the new and emerging areas of Cyber
Security: 4
(2) No of Proof-of Concept of Technologies Developed: 3

FY4 (FY2024-25) (1) Number of New Projects to be initiated in the new and emerging areas of Cyber
Security: 4
(2) No of Proof-of Concept of Technologies Developed : 3

FY5 (FY2025-26) (1) Number of New Projects to be initiated in the new and emerging areas of Cyber
Security: 4
(2) No of Proof-of Concept of Technologies Developed : 3

15. Sunset date (i.e., a date on which the scheme will cease to exist)

Initially up-to 2025-26. The continuation to next phase / up-gradation depends on the review of the outcome of the scheme.

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16. Details of posts created for the scheme (Regular/contractual separately) and the number of persons engaged against them along with
annual financial implications

No posts created for Cyber Security R&D.

However, following table gives details of additional manpower created for NCCC

S. Name of Post Pay Qty. DA HRA TPT (7200 / Total Financial annual
scale (17%) (24%) 3600) + implication
N. 17%) Yearly Total

1 Director Level 1 144200 24514 34608 8424 211746 2540952

-14

2 Scientist E Level 4 123100 20927 29544 8424 181995*4= 8735760

-13 727980

3 Scientist D Level 10 78800 13396 18912 8424 119532*10= 14343840

-12 1195320

4 Scientist C Level 20 67700 11509 16248 8424 103881*20= 24931440

-11 2077620

5 Scientist B Level 25 56100 9537 13464 8424 87525*25= 26257500

-10 2188125

6 Legal Officer Level 01 123100 20927 29544 8424 181995 181995

-13

7 Chief Admin Level 01 123100 20927 29544 8424 181995 181995

Officer -13

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 8 Dy. Director Level 01 67700 11509 16248 8424 103881 103881
-11

9 Administrati Level 01 44900 7633 10776 4212 67521 67521

ve Officer -07

10 Accounts & Level 01 44900 7633 10776 4212 67521 67521

Finance -07
Officer

Total posts 65

Grand Total Rs 7,74,12,405

17. Any additional posts proposed to be created with annual financial implications

No additional posts are to be created for Cyber Security R&D. However, following table give requirement of additional manpower for NCCC

S. Name of Post Pay Qty. DA (17%) HRA TPT Total Financial annual
scale (24%) (7200 / implication
N. 3600) + Yearly Total
17%)

1 Scientist E Level - 1 123100 20927 29544 8424 181995*1=

13 181995 2183940

2 Scientist D Level - 04 78800 13396 18912 8424 119532*4=

12 478128 5737536

3 Scientist C Level - 10 67700 11509 16248 8424 103881*10=

11 1038810 12465720

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 4 Scientist B Level - 10 56100 9537 13464 8424 87525*10=
10 875250 10503000

5 Scientific Level – 19 44900 7633 10776 4212 67521*19=

Officer - SB 7 1282899 15394788

6 Scientific Level – 6 35400 6018 8496 4212

Assistant - B 6 54126*6= 324756 3897072

7 Deputy Director Level - 01 67700 11509 16248 8424 103881*1=

11 103881 1246572

8 Administrative Level - 01 44900 7633 10776 4212

Officer 07 67521*1= 67521 810252

9 Accounts & Level - 01 44900 7633 10776 4212

Finance Officer 07 67521*1= 67521 810252

Office Assistant Level – 04 35400 6018 8496 4212

6 54126*4= 216504 2598048

Personal Level – 02 35400 6018 8496 4212

Assistant 6 54126*2= 108252 1299024

Total posts 59

Grand Total Rs 5,69,46,204/-

18. Comments of other stakeholders including Ministries / Departments / NITI Aayog and response thereon (in a tabular form)
The EFC note on continuing schemes under Digital India programme beyond March 31, 2021, was circulated for inter-ministerial consultations. The
scheme-wise comments / suggestions were received from Ministries / Departments and the response on the same from Programme Division are placed
at Annexure-C-Overall Inter-ministerial Consultations.

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VIII. Promotion of Digital Payment Scheme

Part B

1. Name of the scheme

Promotion of Digital Payments

2. Objectives of the scheme

Promotion of the digital payments ecosystem is an essential aspect of the Digital India Programme and has the potential to transform the Indian
economy by extending inclusive financial services.

Consequent upon the amendment notified to the Government of India (Allocation of Business) Rules, 1961vide Cabinet Secretariat’s notification
no.1/21/1/2017.Cab dated 13th February 2017, the subject of “Promotion of Digital Transactions including Digital Payments” was allocated to MeitY.

The objectives of the scheme are as under:

(a) Promotion of digital payments in various digital payment modes, including Bharat Interface for Money-Unified Payments Interface(BHIM-UPI),
Unstructured Supplementary Service Data(USSD) system, Immediate Payment Service (IMPS), BHIM-Aadhaar Pay and debit cards;
(b) Promoting and overseeing the establishment, growth and sustenance of a robust, secure and inclusive national digital payments ecosystem;
(c) Creating the requisite enabling infrastructure for Government’s digital payments service delivery, electronic payments and receipts and Direct
Benefits Transfer (DBT) programme;
(d) Enabling digital payment acceptance infrastructure across the country, including rural and remote areas;
(e) Evolving and facilitating appropriate standards for efficient, affordable and secure digital payments services;
(f) Awareness and capacity building programmes to increase the adoption of digital payments;
(g) Ensuring security of the digital payments ecosystem;
(h) Promoting international usage of domestic payment modes (RuPay card and UPI);
(i) Leveraging emerging technologies for development of innovative payment solutions.

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 (j) Promotion and enablement of start-ups in the Fintech domain

3. Background of the scheme

Promotion of digital payments has been accorded the highest priority by the Government of India to extend digital payment services to every segment
in the country. The vision is to provide digital payments facilities to all citizens in a convenient, easy, affordable, quick and secured manner. The
Finance Minister, in his speech on the Union Budget for the financial year (FY) 2017-18, announced the setting up of a mission for promotion of
digital payments, with a target of 2,500 crore digital transactions during the financial year, through UPI, USSD, Aadhaar Pay, IMPS and debit cards.

As follow-up, DigiDhan Mission was set up at MeitY in June 2017 for promotion of digital payments. DigiDhan Mission has been the primary
catalyst for promoting the digital payments ecosystem in India. Digital payments transactions have increased steadily in the last few years. The total
transaction volume has increased from 2,071 crore in FY2017-18 to 8,840 crore in FY2021-22.

4. Whether a Central Sector scheme/Centrally sponsored scheme?

Central Sector Scheme

5. Total proposed outlay (component-wise and year-wise)

Figures in crore Rs.

Actual Expenditure of BE of FY Projection for FY Projection for Projection for Total fund requirement of
Financial year
FY 21-22* 22-23** 23-24*** FY 24-25 FY 25-26 FY23-24 to FY25-26
Budget
12.082 200 35.57 35 35 105.57
requirement

*For FY 2021-22, Total Expenditure was 1,044.33 crore, including Rs.1032.25 crore for Incentive scheme for promotion of RuPay Debit cards and low-
value BHIM-UPI transactions (P2M), and Rs. 12.082 for other expenditure.

** BE for FY 2022-23 is Rs. 200 Crore. Additional Funds would be required as given below:

i. Committed liability of FY 2021-22 in FY 2022-23 is Rs. 368.13 crore. Request for additional fund of Rs. 201.13 crore has been submitted to IFD
( Rs. 167 cr. from BE is reserved for committed expenditure of Rs. 368.13 crore)

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 ii. In compliance with the Budget announcement of FY22-23, a proposal for an incentive scheme for promotion of BHIM-UPI and RuPay debit card
transactions for one year (FY 2022-23) with an estimated outlay of Rs. 2,700 crore is under consideration by the Ministry. In this regard, a
separate EFC memo has been submitted and is under consideration of the Ministry.

***Projection for FY 23-24

If the proposal of incentive scheme with estimated outlay of Rs. 2,700 crore in FY 2022-23 is approved, then committed liability of estimated amount of
Rs. 877.50 crore w.r.t. payment of incentives of the 4th quarter of FY 2022-23 will fall in FY 2023-24.

Proposed expenditure in next 3 years

Year-Wise Funds requirements (Rs. in Crores)

Budget Heads 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26 Total
Other Charges (General) 20 20 20 60
Grant-in-aid 10.57 10 10 30.57
Professional Services 3 3 3 9
Awareness/ Capacity Building 2 2 2 6
Total 35.57 35 35 105.57

6. Actual expenditure on the ongoing scheme in the last three years

Figures in crore Rs.
Financial year Budget Estimate Revised Estimate Expenditure
2019-20 600 480 511.53
2020-21 220 300 523.48
2021-22 1,500 1,500 1,044.33

7. Approved output/outcome of ongoing scheme year-wise and achievements (in a tabular form)

DigiDhan Mission has been the primary catalyst for promoting the digital payments ecosystem in India and digital payments transactions have
increased steadily over the last few years. Details regarding digital payments transactions are as under:
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 Number of digital payments transactions Value of digital payments
Financial year transactions
Target Achievement
(in lakh crore)
(in crore) (in crore)
2016-17 - 1,085 1,393
2017-18 2,500 2,071 1,962
2018-19 3,013 3,134 2,482
2019-20 4,019 4,572 2,953
2020-21 5,500 5,554 3,000
2021-22 6,000 8,840 3,021

The proposed year-wise outcome for the scheme duration is given below:

Without Scheme With Incentive Scheme for UPI and Rupay

#
FY 21- FY 22- FY 23- FY 24- FY 25- FY 21- FY 22- FY 23- FY 24- FY 25-
(Txn volume in Cr)
22 23 24 25 26 22 23 24 25 26
4,596.7 4,596.7
UPI* 8,174 12,915 16,680 19,762 8,678 15,277 23,455 33,913
5 5
RuPay Debit* 137 132 121 114 108 137 150 164 177 190
Other Payment Modes (Assuming 20% YoY 4,106.2 4,106.2
4,927 5,913 7,095 8,514 4,927 5,913 7,095 8,514
growth) 5 5
Total Digital Transaction* 8,840 13,233 18,949 23,889 28,384 8,840 13,755 21,354 30,727 42,617
*Transaction volume predication is done on the basis of unique user base and transaction frequency

New modes of making digital payments

New modes of making digital payments — BHIM-UPI, BBPS and National Electronic Toll Collection (NETC) — have transformed the digital
payments ecosystem by increasing both person-to-person (P2P) and person-to-merchant (P2M) payment transactions.
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 8. Existing and proposed funding pattern (in a tabular form), along with rationale
Funding by MeitY

9. Major findings of evaluation / outcome review, and comments of the Ministry / Department on each observation of the scheme (attach
evaluation report)
MeitY has formed a committee chaired by Mr Krishnan Dharmarajan, Executive Director, Centre for Digital Financial Inclusionto evaluate DigiDhan
Mission’s ‘Promotion of Digital Payments’.

S. No. Recommendations of the evaluation committee Comments of MeitY

1. Access to transaction level data on digital payments (with State- Efforts has been made regarding granuLarity of digital payment
wise/district-wise granularity)from banks, PSPs, regulators etc. can data. Npci IS NOW PROVIDING State and District wise data for
help plan and execute targeted awareness and incentive AEPS, IMPS, BHIM, UPI and Rupay PoS.
programmes.

2. Apart from usage and benefits of different digital payment modes, Awareness initiative on secure payment practices is being
awareness campaigns should also focus on user control and cyber undertaken by NPCI and payment ecosystem partners.
security related aspects of digital transactions, including the
available grievance redress mechanism.
3. Leverage synergies between digital payments promotion MeitY is coordinating with Ministries/Departments, States/UTs
interventions being carried out by different govt. departments and and Banks/PSPs for promotion of digital payments, in the country.
institutions:
4. Comprehensive awareness/ outreach/social advocacy programmes MeitY has been undertaking awareness program for promotion of
covering various aspects of a robust digital payments ecosystem digital payments.
may be undertaken.

5. Plan digital payment mode specific strategies and interventions Suggestion Noted.

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 In FY 2021-22, MeitY has undertaken ‘Incentive Scheme For
Promotion Of Rupay Debit Cards And low-value BHIM-UPI
Transactions (P2M)’. Similar plan is under consideration in FY
22-23

6 Targeted interventions /models tying up cashless payments with Suggestion Noted

the livelihoods of other-wise digitally excluded population
segments such as farmers, SHG members, ASHA workers and
street vendors can be planned and supported.
7 Test models to digitise payments in the entire merchant supply Suggestion Noted
chain

Further, MeitY is planning to refocus the Mission on the suggested lines, for implementation over the next five years, with a particular focus on the
following:

(a) Enhancement of the digital payments acceptance infrastructure in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), Ladakh, North East Region (NER), rural
areas and aspirational districts;
(b) End-to-end integration of digital payments in supply chains of major sectors (retail, agriculture etc.);
(c) Promotion of offline digital payment modes, including NCMC and UPI Lite;
(d) Promotion of feature-phone-based payment modes, such as UPI 123Pay and USSD;
(e) Promotion of digital payments in the government sector across the country;
(f) Targeted interventions/models for supporting the tying up of cashless payments with the livelihoods of otherwise digitally-excluded
population segments, such as farmers, SHG members, ASHAs and street vendors;
(g) Execution of targeted awareness and incentive programmes;
(h) Promotion and enablement of start-ups in the fintech domain;
(i) Strengthening of cyber-security in digital payments, including a robust grievance redress mechanism;
(j) Integration of digital payments with livelihood creation and financial inclusion;
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Promotion of domestic payment modes (RuPay card and UPI) internationally.

10. Major changes/ departure proposed from earlier scheme along with justification

Nil

11. Major changes in costing norms, if any

Nil

12. Convergence architecture with other Central Government schemes

Nil

13. Rationale for continuation

(a) There is need to accelerate the adoption of digital payments across the country. Strengthening the digital payments acceptance infrastructure by
utilising low-cost solutions, such as UPI QR code, is required across the country, with a special focus on J&K, Ladakh, NER, rural areas and
aspirational districts to unlock their digital potential.
(b) Next-generation contactless PoS devices, with support for offline transactions, including software-based mobile PoS, need to be promoted to
drive digital payments in areas with limited network connectivity, such as rural areas and NER.
(c) Feature phone based payment solutions need to be promoted for wider adoption of digital payments in rural and NER.
(d) Targeted incentives schemes are required to motivate PSPs, merchants and the public to adopt digital payments.
(e) Integration of digital payments with livelihood creation and financial inclusion activities is required to increase adoption of digital payments and
achieve Government’s developmental objectives.
(f) Integration of digital payments in the supply chains of major sectors (retail, agriculture etc.) is required to facilitate wider adoption of digital
payments.
(g) While customers are rapidly shifting to digital modes of payments, transaction failure and unauthorised transactions too are increasing.
Therefore, cyber security and grievance redress systems need to be strengthened further in order to ensure the reliability, safety and security of
payment systems and to build public confidence in digital payments.
(h) India has demonstrated its capability in the digital payments space by indigenously developing what is widely acknowledged as the world’s best
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 digital payments product (BHIM-UPI) and also developed RuPay card which is competing with international card networks. In order to become
a global leader in the fintech space, it is necessary to promote Indian payment products in the global market.
(i) Leveraging emerging technologies, such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, machine learning, Internet of Things and contactless biometrics,
for development of innovative payment solutions is necessary to continuously drive adoption of digital payments.
(j) Fintechs have played a key role in the growth of digital transactions by enabling transparent, secure, swift and cost-effective mechanisms that
benefit the entire digital payments ecosystem. Therefore, promotion of fintechs in the digital payments sector is a key focus area for the
Government.
(k) Nation-wide awareness and capacity building programmes are required for promotion of digital payments.

14. Proposed outputs/outcomes, year-wise

Number of digital payment transactions

Financial year
(in crore)
2021-22 8,840 (achieved)
2022-23 13,000
2023-24 21,000
2024-25 30,000
2025-26 42,000

15. Sunset date

31st March 2026

16. Details of posts created for the Scheme (regular/contractual separately) and the number of persons engaged against them, with annual
financial implications

Regular posts - No post has been created specific to the scheme. The existing staff of MeitY has been utilised for running the scheme.

Contractual posts - A programme management unit (PMU) has been set up w.e.f 09.06.22 by hiring consultants (6 nos) on contractual basis through
GEM Portal to support the activities of DigiDhan Mission for 3 years at an annual cost of Rs.1.96cr +taxes.

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17. Any additional posts proposed to be created with annual financial implication.

Nil

18. Comments of other stakeholders, including Ministries /Departments / NITI Aayog and response thereon (in a tabular form)

The EFC note on continuing schemes under Digital India programme beyond March 31, 2021, was circulated for inter-ministerial consultations. The
scheme-wise comments / suggestions were received from Ministries / Departments and the response on the same from Programme Division are placed
at Annexure-C-Overall Inter-ministerial Consultations.

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 Annexure-A-I-ISEA Phase III

Information Security Education and Awareness (ISEA) Project Phase-III

1. Background

1.1 The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) is implementing a project entitled ‘Information Security Education and Awareness
(ISEA) Project Phase II’. The details is at www.isea.gov.in.
1.2 So far, 0.81 lakh candidates have been trained/ are undergoing training in various formal/ non-formal courses through 52 institutions (also, 2.74
lakhs candidates are trained/under-going training in affiliated colleges of five Technical Universities). 24,541 Government officials have been
trained. As a part of awareness creation, around 2.69 lakh participants have been covered through 1,413 awareness workshops conducted in 33
States/UTs. Around 5.75 crore estimated beneficiaries have been impacted through various awareness activities under indirect mode.
1.3 Impact Assessment: ISEA Project Phase-II was evaluated by an Expert Committee under the Chairmanship of Prof P.P. Chakrabarti, Former
Director & Professor, IIT Kharagpur. The Committee observed that ISEA Phase-II has met its objectives and it concluded that ISEA is a significant
activity that needs to be carried out from a national perspective through a collaborative network of premier academic institutions and other
stakeholders. Therefore, the next phase of the ISEA Project may be evolved at the earliest.

2. Conceptualization of ISEA Phase-III

2.1 The National Apex Committee (NAC) chaired by the then Secretary, MeitY, in its 2nd Meeting held on 22.04.2019, reviewed the ISEA Project Phase
II and felt the need for further scaling up of ISEA initiative in the country, after the completion of existing ISEA Project Phase II and accordingly
recommended conceptualization of ISEA Project Phase III. In this context, a Committee was set-up under the Chairmanship of Prof. V. Kamakoti,
IIT Madrasto prepare a concept note for the next phase of ISEA Project Phase III taking in to account the impact of emerging technologies,
vulnerabilities/threat landscape, requirements for the country in next 5-10 years, etc.
2.2 In accordance, the draft framework of ISEA Phase-III has been conceptualized jointly by MeitY& C-DAC Hyderabad under the guidance of the
NAC constituted committee led by Prof V Kamakoti, IIT Madras. Several consultations were also held with various stakeholders on continuous basis
under the guidance of IIT Madras & IIT Guwahati, including professors/ faculty of prominent IITs, NITs and select centres of C-DAC and NIELIT
to evolve the broad contours of ISEA Phase-III. The draft framework of ISEA Ph.-III was also recommended by the Academic and Research
Advisory Committee (ARAC) of ISEA Ph.-II. The ARAC appreciated the efforts that have been made to compile a well-structured framework with
innovative mechanisms and strongly recommended that a Detailed Project Report (DPR) of ISEA Ph.-III may be formulated at the earliest for
submission to MeitY.Based on the recommendation of NAC and needs to scale up the education, training and awareness activities in the area of
Information Security, a Detailed Project Report (DPR) of ISEA Phase-III project has been prepared under the guidance of committee chaired Prof V
Kamakoti, IIT Madras in consultation with various stakeholders.

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3. ISEA Phase-III - Broad Contours

3.1 Objectives: ISEA Project Phase-III aims to leverage and augment the unique framework of ISEA institutions for proliferation of collaborative
activities in human resource development through capacity building measures in education, training and awareness of masses in the area of
Information Security.
3.2 Duration: The proposed duration of the project is 5 years
3.3 A broad schematic diagram of the proposed ISEA Phase-III framework along with common cloud Infrastructure and ISEA Virtual Academy (IVA),
which spans across the four (4) activity-wise verticals and related sub-activities are indicated in the diagram given below:

• The ISEA-III framework comprises of 4(four) verticals, namely Capacity & Capability Building; Ideation & Innovation; Education &
Training; National Awareness Programme. The verticals would be supported by centralized labs/ infrastructures and ISEA Virtual Platform to
synergize and proliferate ISEA activities on a national scale.
• Under Capacity & Capability Building, the focus is on 10 niche thematic areas with supported sub-areas, reflecting a combination of
contemporary, emerging & futuristic topics in Information Security. These areas would be managed through 50 institutions, grouped into 10
thematic (logical) clusters (5 institutions per cluster as Lead/Co-leads) in a hub-n-spoke mode. A pool of research manpower (Post-doc, PhD,
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 MS by Research, SRF/JRD/RA, etc.) would also be supported for knowledge creation (technical paper publications & patents), besides
knowledge sharing through workshops, international conference, expert lecture series, etc.
• Common infrastructure facilities on cloud and shared services (CISS) would essentially comprise of (a) CPU/GPU clusters (hi-compute facility
using NSM infrastructure), and (b) ISEA Cloud comprising of centralized storage, sandboxing environment, virtual environment to facilitate
POC/MVP, tool-kit repositories comprising of database, datasets, IT-OT simulation platform, cyber security exercise platform, etc. CISS
would also optimize the overall cost of the project and ensure its optimum usage.
• ISEA-III would also be supported with a ISEA Virtual Platform (IVP) - a Unified Digital Platform for proliferating capacity/capability
building, innovation, education, training & awareness activities to provide remote access to various stakeholders and end-users. IVP would be
interfaced to the Centralized Infrastructure and Shared Services (CISS) through a gateway access layer. IVP would also comprise of a Digital
Forum and a Cyber Fitness Mobile App to assess cyber readiness/cyber wellbeing of general users
• The ideation and innovation vertical is a unique concept aimed at fostering entrepreneurial and development mind-set amongst student
community by supporting ideas leading to POC/MVP/IPRs through ISEA networked mentors. Activities in the form of bootcamps, hackathons
and innovation challenges in cyber security are expected to nurture a diverse pool of technical talent in the country, thereby also supporting the
Atmanirbhar initiative of the Government of India.
• Education & Training activities are aimed at scaling-up of formal/non-formal programmes in thematic areas, besides availability
of standardized modular role based/ domain specific/ sector specific hands-on courses for students, faculty & professionals. In
addition, ISEA-III also aims to promote multi-disciplinary education by introducing cyber security education and awareness at
UG level. The project would also cover large scale training and education of Government officials at national scale. These
initiatives would also be synced with other national public digital platforms, such as iGOT, SWAYAM/NPTEL etc.
• National Awareness Programme (NAP) would enhance the reach and spread of cyber hygiene practices on a national scale
covering various stakeholders. Initiatives under NAP would include cyber security awareness trainings, user engagement
programmes (cyber-kid/cadet/warrior), design/development/ proliferation of multi-lingual awareness content, publicity and
outreach, etc.

3.4 Institutional Mechanism

The institutional framework would be implemented by around 50 Lead/Co-Lead institutions, along with Spokes grouped in 10 clusters (one per
thematic area) in a hub-n-spoke mode.

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 ISEA Phase-III project is proposed to be implemented through a network of 50 academic/research institutions, technical universities and autonomous
bodies of MeitY, Government of India. In addition, other academic/research institutions, other CFTIs, universities, autonomous bodies of
Government of India, R&D organizations, industry, start-ups, etc. can associate with ten thematic clusters as spokes.

3.5 Deliverables: It is envisaged to cover 3.45 lakh beneficiaries under capacity & capability building, ideation & innovation, education & training and
Government officials training activities. In addition, 12 crore beneficiaries are envisaged to be covered through direct/indirect mode under the
National Awareness Programme (NAP). Activities wise year-wise deliverables envisaged under the project are as under:

S.
Particulars Year-1 Year-2 Year-3 Year-4 Year-5 Total
No.
1 Capacity/Capability 4,575 4,695 4,685 4,685 4,645 23,285
Building
2 Ideation & 1,250 11,650 11,650 1,650 11,650 37,850
Innovation
3 Education & 9,500 42,000 45,500 45,500 46,800 1,89,300
Training
4 Government 18,950 18,960 18,960 18,960 18,960 94,790
Officials Training
Total 34,275 77,305 80,795 70,795 82,055 3,45,225
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 5 National Awareness
1,25,56,3 2,11,29,30 2,49,58,70 2,94,95,70 3,18,60,00 12,00,00,0
Programme
00 0 0 0 0 00
(Direct/Indirect)

3.6 Outcomes: The qualitative and the quantitative outcomes are envisaged under the project are as under:
i) Establishing 10 thematic clusters to focus on contemporary, emerging and futuristic areas of information security to build capacity/capabilities
ii) Establishing a dedicated cloud infrastructure to provide facilities for sharing & accessing cross domain technological labs
iii) Nurturing developmental mindset among students community by way of supporting shortlisting of 180 ideas leading to POCs/MVPs/IPR
iv) Supporting collaborative knowledge creation in thematic areas through support for 1150 papers/50 patents
v) Fostering ideation & innovation capabilities among students @ academia through 250 bootcamps, 30 hackathons and 4 innovation challenges
vi) Design & development of information security curriculum & courseware content
❖ 30 practical oriented online MOOC courses for UG/PG students from premier academic/research institutions to complement the repository
of courses at NPTEL/ SWAYAM platform
❖ 50 standardized modular courses for non-formal/training activities
❖ 20 standardized awareness modules for cyber hygiene practices, cyber safety, cyber security and privacy
vii) Comprehensive training programmes for Government officials at national scale starting
viii) Comprehensive & customized awareness campaign on cyber hygiene at national level

3.7 Target beneficiaries: It is envisaged that the ISEA-Phase-III would provide a significant value addition to a diverse category of beneficiaries at
various levels involving UG/PG Students, Research Students, Faculty, Government Officials, Working Professionals, School Students, and Common
masses at large. The following diagram illustrates a broad overview of various target beneficiaries likely to be covered under the project:

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3.8 Financials: The proposed outlay of the ISEA Phase III for a period of five-year is Rs.332.74 crores.
(Figures in Rs. Crores)

Year I Year II Year III Year IV Year V

Financials (year-wise) Total
2023-24 2024-25 205-26 2026-27 2027-28
Total 82.60 59.05 66.16 67.58 57.34 332.74

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4. Draft SFC Memo of ISEA Phase-III:

4.1 It may also be noted that with the approval of Competent Authority, the Draft SFC Memo & DPR of the ISEA Project Phase-III has been circulated
to various Ministries/Departments on 29.04.2022 for seeking their comments/suggestions on the proposal by 18.05.2022. The draft SFC Memo has
also been uploaded on EFC/SFC Management System Portal of Ministry of Finance. So far, the comments of D/o Expenditure, MoF, NITI Aayog,
MHA, D/o School Education & Literacy, MoE, CERT-IN, STQC, Cyber Security and Cyber Laws Division of MeitY have been received. These
Ministries/institutions have broadly supported the ISEA Phase-III proposal and also shared some observations. Further, reminders have been sent to
D/o Higher Education, MoE, requesting to expedite the submission of comments on the above said Draft SFC Memo at the earliest.

4.2 In light of the above, the comments received from Department of Expenditure, M/o Finance on the Draft SFC Memo of ISEA Phase-III are
reproduced below for kind information:

It may be noted that the EFC in Sept. 2021 had appraised the proposal of ‘Digital India Programme’ and recommended total outlay of Rs. 17,553.25
Cr. This proposal is part of its sub-component ‘Manpower Development & PMGDISHA’. The above two were merged for operational efficiency.
The approved outlay for the particular component ‘Manpower Development’, is Rs. 1,858 Cr. & this is a proposal under ‘Manpower Development’.
The total financials for ‘Manpower Development & PMGDISHA’ is Rs. 4,058 Cr. for a period of 5 years.

As mentioned in reply to IFD query, this proposal is under the sub-component ‘Manpower Development & PMGDISHA’’. The EFC has approved
Rs. 4,058 Cr. for this sub-component. Further break-up, the approved outlay for Manpower Development is Rs. 1,858 Cr.

It is bring to notice that in terms of decision of the Cabinet dated 19.01.2022 and DoE’s O.M. No. 01(01)/PFC-I/2022 dated 01.02.2022, the two
schemes PMGDISHA & Manpower Development have to be re-appraised by the EFC. MeitY is requested to expedite submission of the EFC
Memos. The components under that scheme may await approval of the main scheme.

4.3 Accordingly, the Draft SFC Memo of the proposed project titled ‘Information Security Education and Awareness (ISEA) Project Phase-III’ to be
implemented by 50 Academic/R&D institutions, Technical Universities and Autonomous bodies of MeitY over a duration of 5 (Five) years at a total
outlay of Rs. 332.74 Crore as Grants-in-Aid under “Digital India Programme-Manpower Development Scheme” of Ministry of Electronics and
Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India would be put-up for obtaining further necessary approvals.

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 Annexure-A-III(1)-Summary of impact assessment of NKN

Summary & Recommendations of Impact Assessment

Executive Summary

Before the conceptualization of National Knowledge Network (NKN), bandwidth connectivity in order of gigabits per seconds (Gbps) was relatively
unheard of in majority of the academic and research institutes. NKN brought with it a bandwidth revolution that completely revamped the information
industry and became India’s Digital Highway. With NKN project about to complete ten years of its inception, Indian Institute of Public Administration
(IIPA), New Delhi, was entrusted to undertake impact analysis of the current phase of NKN.

After this comprehensive and methodological evaluation, IIPA concluded that NKN has become an indispensable part to the R&D and educational
community, as well as for the government. Observing the vital contribution of NKN, IIPA lauds its potential and recommends the continuation of NKN.
IIPA has also recommended that NKN in its next phase should strive towards becoming a larger global information exchange network than what it is
today. It should continue to extend its connectivity with all major RENs across the world, should encompass more and more institutes and should also
extend its local last mile connectivity till block level. By effectively leveraging the global and local connectivity NKN can provide more managed services
to all its partner institutes as well as empower e-Governance initiatives, thereby ushering the next phase of Knowledge Revolution in the nation.

The Table below shows the approach used for study, observation and recommendation from the perspective of each pillar.
For Outreach, recommendations were as follows: For quality of service (QoS), recommendations were as follows:
a. To consolidate its position as the largest network of its kind globally, Recommendation: It is suggested that NKN needs to proactively
it is suggested that in the next phase, NKN needs more entities on- increase the usage of NKN services and create more awareness in
board, thereby creating other government sectorial networks under the user institutes, may be by undertaking proactive multiple discussions
umbrella of NKN. This kind of approach would make NKN a and conduct workshops, video conferencing, etc. It would also be
Network of Networks. recommended to enhance peering and caching to encompass other
b. The knowledge domain of the complete value chain of the various leading content providers.
sectors should be aggregated in NKN to ensure a fruitful utilisation by
professionals, practitioners, industry and end users. For this, NKN
must have various likeminded government organisations like ERNET,
C-DAC, CCTNS, BBNL etc., on-board. This has also been whole
heartedly endorsed in the initial proposed vision of NKN.
c. On the technical front, NKN could imbue upcoming frontier
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 technologies to stay future savvy. For instance, its core, in the next
phase, can be upgraded with Dark Fiber technologies that would make
the network more scalable and reliable.
Comments of Programme Division, MeitY
It is noted and most of these are incorporated in the next phase of NKN called Digital India Infoway (DII).
For Knowledge Ecosystem, recommendations were as follows: For Value Proposition, recommendations were as follows:
a. Time is now ripe for NKN to be recognised as a one-shop stop for Recommendations: In its next phase, NKN must visualise itself as an
innovation, collaboration, sharing ideas, protecting and patenting umbrella that subsumes in it both NREN & National Government
them for which it needs to adopt a holistic Innovation Framework Network (NGN) of the country. This kind of convergence at all
approach with a dynamic, self-explanatory Knowledge Dashboard. levels with existing government networks would help to maximise
b. In its next phase, NKN should explore its virtual classroom value addition to the country’s economy sans duplication of efforts/
ecosystem to achieve “One Class, One Nation”. expenditure etc.
Comments of Programme Division, MeitY
It is noted and most of these are incorporated in the next phase of NKN called Digital India Infoway (DII).

In short, the present study affirms that NKN has been able to successfully achieve the vision of its pioneers and holds a bigger potential for supporting the
knowledge ecosystem of the country. Respecting the dreams of the national leaders and technology trends of the global ecosystem, NKN must recast itself
as a citizen-inclusive Global Innovation Network with adequate outreach to its local grassroots. For achieving this, it must adopt a more structured
knowledge management methodology that eventually culminates into an ‘innovation management’ approach. This would morph NKN from an
‘information catalyst for the institutes’ to a ‘national tool for harnessing the innovation capital’ of the nation.

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Annexure-A-VI-List of R&D Projects

List of Projects under R&D in IT, Electronics and CCBT (including TDIL, Innovation and IPR and Emerging Technology)

S.N. R&D Projects (150 Ongoing and 39 New Projects)

1 National Mission on Power Electronics Technology (NaMPET-III)
2 Development of indigenous electrical sub-systems for 3-wheeler e-rickshaw along with a smart Vehicle Control UniT,
IIT Kharagpur
3 InTRanSE Phase III
4 Program on Technology development of Electrical Vehicle (EV)
5 Collaborative Intelligent Transportation System Endeavour for Indian Cities – InTranSE Phase II
Out of 216 (190 release)
6 National Programme on Electronics and ICT Applications in Agriculture and Environment
(AGRIENICS)
7 Development of Electronics & IT based Control & Automation solutions for consumer (Toy industries) electronic goods:
An initiative for SC-ST-NER communities
8 Glacier project North East
9 Development of high efficiency Motors and controllers for electric vehicles (EVs) such as 2- Wheeler(2W), 3-
Wheeler(3W) and small 4-Wheeler(4W) cargo vehicles used in India, Madras
Out of 69 (60 release)
10 Development and deployment of Knowledge based Integrated Sustainable Agriculture & Food Network (KISAN) cloud
using Electronic Soil Nutrient Analyzer (ESNA) and capacity building of ST masses on Smart Agri and Livelihood
Entrepreneurship for self-employment”, by Indira Gandhi National Trial University, Amarkantak, MP

11 Tea Harvesting Unmanned Robotic Platform for NER-TULIP

12 e-guna: sensory assessment for quality if fermented food from North-east India
13 Development of IoT and Drone based Agriculture Monitoring System with objective of Skill development of socially
deprive Community (SC)
14 Autonomous Last Mile Vehicle (ALIVE) , IIIT Delhi
15 MEAN: Measuring Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDC) and Aquatic diagnostics through Bio-Sensory Network, by
CDAC-Kolkatta, ICAR and CIFRI for North-East Regions

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16 Realization of Series connection of Silicon Carbide (SiC) devices in Converters with High frequency link bidirectional
DC-DC converter for grid interfaces, by CDAC Trivandrum and IIT M ( Out of 38.82 released 30.00)

17 Design and developed hydroponic system for Agri-Research, In north East region
18 Development & deployment of Motor Controller for Low to Medium Power Electric Vehicles by DTU Delhi
19 Development of Electronics & IT based Control & Automation solutions for consumer (Toy industries) electronic goods:
An initiative for SC-ST-NER communities by CDAC-Noida
20 Solar powered robust e-Rickshaw control with bidirectional DC-DC converter using regenerative cycle boost charging,
by NIT-Uttarakhand
21 M. Des program / executive development program in Electronics product design implemeted
22 Special Manpower Development Programme (SMDP): M. Tech. in Electronic Product Design and Skill Development
23 Microprocessor Development Programme
24 Security and Edge Intelligence hardware extensions for SHAKTI Based Compute Environment
25 Design and Development of AI/ML Co-Processor and Post Quantum Cryptography Co-Processor
26 Design & development of 'DHWANI' Advanced indigenous Mixed Signal Bluetooth enabled Hearing Aid
27 Research and Development of High Energy Electron Linear Accelerator Technology for Medical and Other Applications,
SAMEER, Mumbai and INMAS Delhi
28 Indigenous Magnetic Resonance Imaging (IMRI) – A National Mission (Swadeshi Chumbakiya Anunaad Chitran – Ek
Rashtriya, SAMEER, Mumbai, CDAC-T, CDAC-K, IUAC, Delhi and DSI-MIRC (Bangalore)

29 Development of Indigenized Digital Dentistry Solutions

30 Digitally Connected Tribal Colonies, CDAC, Trivandrum
31 Virtual Eye Diagnostic Assistant System (VEDAS)
32 NDHM, FHIR Connector, CDAC Noida
33 Design and Development of Ultrasonic Transducer probes for Medical Imaging
34 Design and Development of EEG Based Real-Time Depth of Anesthesia (DoA) Monitoring System
35 Self Contained X-Ray Blood Irradiator system
36 Setting up of Medical Electronic Laboratory for Calibration and Maintennace of Medical Electronic Deveice &
Equipment, NRTC, Parwanoo

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37 Development of focused Compact Microwave Hyperthermia Applicator for small cancerous tumors - Thapar Institute of
Engineering and Technology (TIET), Patiala and Government Medical College (GMC), Patiala

38 SWASTHA: Smart Wearable Advanced nanoSensing Technologies in Healthcare ASICs by IIT Guwahati, CDAC
Kolkatta and Savitri Medical College, Chennai
39 INUP (IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur , IISc Banglore and IIT Guwahati)
40 INUP (IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur , IISc Banglore and IIT Guwahati)
41 INUP (IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur , IISc Banglore and IIT Guwahati)
42 INUP (IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur , IISc Banglore and IIT Guwahati)
43 INUP (IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur , IISc Banglore and IIT Guwahati)
44 INUP (IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur , IISc Banglore and IIT Guwahati)
45 PAN India awareness programme in Circular economy NIELIT Kolkata/ Gangtok
46 Up-gradation of informal sector through MSME cluster formation with indigenous technologies, CMT,NML, CIPET
47 Development of high purity Neodymium metal for permanent magnet applications, CMET Hyderabad
48 CPAM: Digital ToY Manufacturing, NIT Surathkal
49 CPAM: Agro & Food Processing, CDAC Kolkatta
50 Establishment of CoE on E-waste management, C-MET Hyderabad
51 Additive Manufacturing based Cost Effective Optical Computing Chips IISc Bangalore and CMET Pune
52 CoE in Rechargeable Battery Technology (Pre-Cell) CMET Pune
53 CoE on products based on Li-ion (Post Cell) CDAC Noida
54 Centre of Excellence on Additive Manufacturing in Medical Device Sector (CoE AM: Medical Device Sector) AMTZ,
AP
55 National Centre for Additive Manufacturing (NCAM), NCAM, Hyderabad
56 Centre for Programmable Photonic Integrated Circuits and Systems (CPPICS) IIT Chennai
57 Centre of Excellence on Additive Manufacturing (CoE AM) CMET Pune + CIPET BBSR
58 National Centre for Quantum Material Technologies CMET Pune
59 Centre of Excellence (CoE) on Intelligent Internet of Things (IIoT) Sensors CMET Thrissur & IIITMK

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60 India Innovation Centre for Graphene” C-MET, Thrissur, Digital University Kerala in association with M/s Tata Steel
Ltd. Mumbai,
61 Establishment of a Centre of Innovation & Manufacturing Eco-system for Sensors (CIMES) in Industrial IoT, CGCRI
Kolkata CGCRI Kolkata
62 CW/Modulated Thulium Fiber Laser (TFL) System for Soft tissue Vaporization/Ablation CGCRI Kolkata
63 Feasibility study for development of process technology to recover valuable materials from end-of life silicon solar
modules C-MET Hyderabad
64 Development of Electrically Conductive Adhesives for the Microelectronic Packaging and Flexible Film Circuits IIT
Ropar and NIT Warangal
65 Capacity building through skill and entrepreneurship development on “e-Waste management" PU Chandigarh
66
67 Development of Polybutadyne ceramic composite laminates and substrate integrated waveguides (SIW) CMET Thrissur
68 Assessment for Silicon Photonics and Diamond chip manufacturing lines with Indian machinery and supply chain
CMTI, Bangaluru
69 Development of printable silver thick film ink for RFID Tags on environment friendly, flexible substrate for smart appl
C-MET Pune
70 Development of Indigenous Antennas for Navigation with Indian Constellation (NavIC), CMET Hyd
71 CPAM: Paper & packaging, IIT Guwahati
72 Early detection of pest on Tea plantation through Multispectral imaging from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle” Tezpur
University, Assam
73 Metamaterials based Compact Broadband Tunable Modulator for Terahertz Photonics IIT Guwahati
74 Development of hybrid battery power module with indigenously developed supercapacitor and Li-ion Cell NEIST Jorhat
75 Capacity building through skill and entrepreneurship development on E-waste management for the North eastern states
by NEILIT Gangtok , Sikkim
76 Development of Graphene Super-capacitors using Northeastern coal for power applications NEIST Jorhat
77 Skill development training programme for Schedule Caste students on E - Waste recycling technologies and testing of
Restricted of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) CMET Hyderabad
78 Skill development training programme for Schedule Tribe students on E - Waste recycling technologies and testing of
Restricted of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) CMET Hyd

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79 Entrepreneurial Training Programme for Scheduled Caste Communities to produce Digital Thermometers C-MET
Thrissur and IHRD Kochi
80 Entrepreneurial Training Programme for Scheduled Tribe Communities to Produce Solar Lanterns/LED bulbs for
Lighting Applications, C-MET Thrissur and IHRD Kochi
81 Build Approach R&D
82 HPC Processor
83 NSM-Infra
84 Applications
85 Mission Management
86 HR
87 National Quantum Standardization Testing and Evaluation Centre (NQSTEC)
88 Quantum Accelerators for enabling Quantum Computing on Supercomputers/ AI /ML
89 Indian DataBase
90 Agile and Adhoc Free Space based Quantum Communication using Drone (Phase 1) Drone-QC
91 FinTeQ-Quantum-Safe Financial Transaction Framework
92 A Brain Machine Interface enabled Assistive Communication System for Children with Special Needs - C-DAC, New
Delhi
93 Design and Development of software system for detecting and flagging Deepfake Videos and Images
94 Speech to Speech Translation for Tribal Languages using Deep Learning Framework
95 Resource Constrained AI
96 Neurocomputing and Cognitive Intelligence
97 A Multi-Model Neuro-Physiological Framework for Cognitive Behavioral Analysis
98 Robotics and Automation in Agriculture
99 Affordable Deep-Learning-based Point-of-Care Cardiac Monitoring for Heart Attack Survivors Powered by Lab-on-Chip
Technology-
100 Intelligent Multimedia Systems with Applications
101 Distributed Cognitive System for Healthcare
102 Quality of Living: Smart Home Environment Creation through Automatic Monitoring an Utilization of the Physical and
Cognitive state of Residents.
103 NMQTA

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104 National Center of Excellence on Sensation, Perception and Cognition
in Science, Engineering & Technology
With Mind, Consciousness
105 Indian Mobile Operating system
106 An Efficient, secure and open Edge-Cloud platform to enable Evolutionary AI and loT Applications
107 Next Generation Wireless Research and Standardization on 5G and Beyond.
108 Indigenous 6G Chip Design and Deployment
109 6G End-to-End Chip Communication System
110 Sub-T6G: Sub-THz Wireless communication with Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces(IRS)" being jointly implemented by
SAMEER Kolkata and IIT Madras
111 Indian Open-Source Software Platform for an End-to-end 5G Network- IOS-5GN
112 A Unified IOT Architecture and Development Framework for 5G/6G Applicatrions
113 5G+/6G Converged Terrestrial and Satellite IoT (5G+/6G-sIoT)
114 Metro Area Quantum Access Network (MAQAN) by IIT-M, SETS-C and CDAC-B
115 Establishment of EMC Test facility for testing of Strategic Electronic Systems
116 Multiple Gigabit Wireless System (MGWS) at 60 GHz for 5G and beyond " by SAMEER, Chennai
117 Middleware, Applications Platform & for 5G Environment
118 Design and Fabrication of Autonomous Passenger Drone
119 Personal health Train for RAdiation Oncology in India and the Netherlands (TRAIN)
120 DAREFUL: DAta-dRiven E-Commerce Order FULfillmentat
121 DP-Trans (Digital twin for Pipeline TRANSport network)
122 Analysis, Design and Implementation of Intelligent Reflected Surfaces (IRS) Assisted Wireless Communication Systems
123 Design Studies of High Power RF Amplifiers and Development of Antennae for mm-wave backhaul/fronthaul
Connectivity for 5G
124 Design and Development of MIMO based Microwave Imaging System for Target Detection and Identification behind the
Wall
125 Development of Through-Wall-Imaging (TWI) Radar for Homeland Security
126 Analysis of Deep Learning Techniques for Electronic warfare 5G
applications
127 To propose a 5G-HCRAN (Heterogeneous Cloud Radio Access
Network)-based communication system for cellular and device tier users.
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128 Design of efficient and secure IoT communication framework in context of content centric Network using Elliptic Curve
Cryptography - A Next generation smart communication technology
129 Multi-Model Framework for Monotoring Active Fire Locations (AFL) and precision in Allied Agricultural Activities
using Communication Technologies
130 Capacity Building and Research Entreprenueyrship Centre in Artificial Intelligence Big Data and IoT for SC/ST.
131 Smart Agriculture for Tribes using Artificial Intelligence and Big Data.
132 Dev. of Stream Data Analytics Framework for Precision Farming using IoT Unnamed Aerial Vehicle (UAV).
133 Tribe Connecting Integrated Smart Tribal Eco Platforma a Proof of Concept in Chattisgarh.
134 Ensuring QoS in Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) using Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
135 Design and development of X-band high power passive and active devices" being implemented by SAMEER, Guwahati
136 A Data-Centric Approach to Study Fundamental Limits of Communication in Adversarial Wireless Networks
137 On-chip Control of Polarization and Delay in Arrayed Waveguide Grating” to be implemented by at IIT Indore
138 Quantum Key Distribution based Ultra-Secure and Reliable Optical Networks using Shared Fiber Technology
139 Network management innovation and experimentation with MAQAN
140 Low power 8-16Gbps /s/pin Full Duplex Wireline Transceiver being implemented IIT Madras
141 Design and Implementation of Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Techniques for Future Wireless Systems being
implemented by IIT Indore
142 Development of MMW Radiometer for NE Region of India for Climate Modelling Studies for Weather Changes” being
implemented by SAMEER Mumbai
143 Development of Signal and Channel Models, Circuits, and Antennas for Next Generation Wireless Systems with
Emphasis on Vehicular Communication
144 Development of SDN and NFV based agile Network Service Delivery Platform for Enterprise and Service Providers”
145 Design of Dynamic MAC and PHY SoC for Low Power and
Long-Range Networks by IIT Hyderabad, IISc Banglore, University of Hyderabad, CDAC Banglore
146 Acoustic Gunshot Detection System for Strategic Applications being implemented by C-DAC
147 Real-Time Edge Computing Architectures for LiDAR-based Intelligent Transportation Systems being implemented by
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148 High Performance Programmable Simulation Framework for Quantum Network /
Internet Communication
149 Designing Reliable and Low-latency Networks for
Tactile Cyber-Physical Systems
150 Intelligent Joint Radar Communication Transceiver Design and Prototype for Beyond 5G being implemented By IIIT
Delhi
151 Design and Development of a Millimeter wave based Road Condition Detection Radar for Automotive Application
152 Design and Implementation of Intelligent Receiver over Randomized Environment by Statistical and Machine Learning
Approach being implemented by IIT Patna
153 Quantum communication using entangled photons
154 AI-based 6G Network Slicing for multi-UAV prototype being implemented by IIT Patna
155 Development of Cognitive Radio for Strategic Applications” by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-
DAC)
156 Conformal Jamming Systems for
RCIED by SAMEER-CEM, Chennai
157 Development of Secured and Reliable Spectrum Allocation Schemes for Next-generation Elastic
Optical Networks
158 A Machine Learning Framework for Deploying Mobile Edge Clouds for Real-Time Analytics on IoT Data over 5G
159 Computation of a Localization Method to Compensate for Malicious Anchor Node behavior in UWSN
160 Design and Development of E-learning Platform for Assisting Underprivileged (SC/ST) school students in Rourkela
Region, Odisha by converging Cable TV Network and Broadband Technology" by NIT Rourkela
161 Development of efficient joint antenna and user scheduling schemes for massive MIMO limited feedback broadcast
channels for 5G and beyond communication systems
162 Efficient conformal antenna and array
163 Visible Light Communication based LED Lighting Solutions
164 Development of Digital Mine Using IoT” jointly by CIMFR, Dhanbad and IIT Kharagpur
165 Efficient Multicarrier Waveform Design for Next Generation Non- Orthogonal Multiple Access for Wireless Mobile
Communication implemented by IIT Patna.
166 Setting-up of Information and Facilitation Centre for Empowering Living of Schedule Caste in Jharkhand State” - by
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167 Funds requirement for New projects to be undertaken in emerging areas of Convergence communication and
Broadband Technologies
168 NLTM
169 New Tech. Promotion and Proliferation Initiatives
170 Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Internet of Things (IoT) at Gurugram in Haryana
171 NASSCOM-ERNET Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Internet of Things (IoT), Bengaluru
172 Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Internet of Things (IoT) at Gandhinagar in Gujrat
173 Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Internet of Things (IoT) at Vizag in Andhra Pradesh
174 Centre of Excellence on Gaming, VFX, Computer Vision & AI at Hyderabad
175 Centre of Excellence on Blockchain Technology at Gurugram
176 Centre of Excellence on Virtual & Augmented Reality (VARCoE) at IIT Bhubneswar
177 Design, development and deployment of National AI Portal
178 POC for AI Research Analytics and Knowledge Dissemination Platform (AIRAWAT)
179 PMU for ET Division
180 Artificial Intelligence for Development Programme
181 Technology Incubation and Development of Entrepreneurs (TIDE 2.0) Scheme
182 Support for International Patent Protection in E&IT-II” (SIP-EIT-II) Scheme
183 Domain specific Centre of Excellence/ Entrepreneurship
• CoE on IOT OpenLab at Bangalore
• FinTech CoE at Chennai
• Electropreneur Park (ESDM Incubation Centre) at Bhubaneswar
• MedTech & Health Informatics CoE at Lucknow
184 Theme based Incubation Centres
• Electropreneur Park at DU by STPI
• Electronics Incubator by IIITM-Kerala and KSUM at Cochin, Kerala
• Incubation Centre in the area of ESDM with focus on Medical Electronics at IIT Patna
185 SASACT: Scheme for Accelerating Startups around Post COVID Technology Opportunities
186 Technology driven grant challenges for inviting innovative indigenous solutions for addressing specific technical needs
of concerned user agencies.
• “DRISHTI – Development of Researched Indigenous Solutions – Hackathon for Technological Innovations” jointly
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187 MeitY Startup Hub (MSH) as Independent Business Division (IBD) with in Digital India Corporation (DIC)
188 Implementation of GENESIS (Gen-Next Support for Innovative Startups) Framework including proposal for Seed
Funding Support
189 Branding and Outreach of GENESIS

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Annexure-B – Overall (as per format given by D/o Expenditure)

(Rs in Crore)

SCHEMES TO BE APPRAISED BY EFC

S.N. Scheme Actual Total proposed 5.5 times of Remarks (if any)
expenditure FY outlay for actual of FY
2019-20 (FY2021-22 to 2019-20
2025-26)*
I Digital India Manpower 737.97 4058 4,058.83 -
Development Schemes
including Pradhan
Mantri Gramin Digital
Saksharta Abhiyan
(PMGDISHA) Scheme
An additional funds of Rs. 11,068
II Electronic Governance 402.06 2773.93 2211.33 Crore (Eleven thousand and sixty-eight
Scheme (A sub-Scheme crore only) will also be required for
under Digital India Electronics Governance Scheme due to
Programme) consideration/ initiation of new project
namely Data Centre and Cloud
Promotion Scheme (DCCPS). Brief
details may be seen at para-5 under
total proposed outlay of the scheme.
III NKN 274.64 1,645.52 1,510.52 Continuation of NKN for FY 2023-24
is proposed.

IV Promotion of Electronics 114.2 628.10 628.10

and IT Hardware
Manufacturing Scheme
V Promotion of Indian IT
Industry (Services and 90.00 828.00 495.00
Products)
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VI R&D in IT/ Electronics/ 427.74 4004.80 2352.57 Additional budget requirement
CCBT including NSM, Rs.1365.49 Crore for new initiatives in
TDIL, Emerging new areas such as Autonomous
Vehicles, Electric Vehicles, Next
Technology and
Generation Communication
Innovation & IPR Technologies like 5G applications and
use cases, 5G and beyond, 6G
(including THz communication),
Quantum Technologies and
Communications, Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles (UAV)/drone communication,
Indigenous Database System, Indian
Mobile Operating System and
emerging technologies, Expansion of
Additive Manufacturing and Circular
Economy etc.
VII Cyber Security Projects 92.07 3465.00 506.39 For continuation of the ongoing and
(R&D and others) new Cyber Security Projects (NCCC &
Others)

Owing to speedy rise in Internet traffic

within the country and corresponding
storage requirement for 1 year, the
traffic data needs to be integrated at
NCCC for proactive threat detection
and situational awareness, cost has also
increased accordingly. Department of
Telecom (DoT) is setting up Telecom
Security Operations Centre (TSOC)
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share themwith NCCC. Further, NCCC
will make arrangements for storage of
traffic data for a period of 1 year and
carryout security analytics to detect
cyber threats in near real-time. Also,
increased internet traffic collected by
TSOC from the ISP gateways will be
integrated with NCCC on a continuous
basis. Around 20 such gateways are
targeted to be covered at the earliest
and 100 more will be covered within 02
years. In this regard proposal to collect,
store and analyze traffic flows from
120 ISP gateways planned to be
implemented in phases, initially
covering 20 ISP gateways and
subsequently 100 more is being
prepared. In order to meet this
requirement funds of about Rs. 230 Cr.
for the collection of 20 ISP gateways
including the annual recurring
expenditure of about Rs. 35 Cr. are
required. Further after 01 year, funds of
approx. Rs. 970 Cr. to collect traffic
flows from 100 more ISP gateways
including annual expenses of Rs. 195
Cr. will be required. All this
expenditure will be required for capital
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and Datacentre expenses. Hence, total
additional budget of Rs 1,200 crore is
required for three financial years from
FY23-to-FY25.

Data Centre is the primary space to

host servers and other networking
devices for collection of various types
of data in a centralized controlled
environment. At present Primary Data
Centre and Disaster Recovery Centre is
hired from various organizations and is
located at multiple locations i.e Noida,
Bangalore, Mohali and New Delhi.
There is no centralized control over the
entire infrastructure. Since the places at
Noida, Bangalore and Mohali are on
rental basis, huge rent amount is being
paid which is a loss to the Govt of
India. Thus there is a requirement to
build own Data Centre and Disaster
Recovery Site so as to have centralized
control, better management and saving
huge rental being paid to various
organizations. The project will be
implemented at the location suitable for
building, development and setting up of
Primary Data Centre and Disaster
Recovery Centre. An approximate area
of 20.0 acres and 8.0 acre will be
required to build a Data Centre and its
associated services in multi-storey each
for Primary Data Centre and Disaster
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 Recovery Centre site respectively.
Primary Data Centre and Disaster
Recovery Centre will be developed at
two different locations situated in two
different seismic zones. An approx.
expenditure for building Primary Data
Centre is Rs 950 Crores, Disaster
Recovery Centre is Rs 500 Crore and
Support & Maintenance is approx. Rs
350 crores.

Rs 600 Crore will be required in FY

2026-27
VIII Promotion of Digital 511.53 149.90 2,813.415 In spite of significant growth in digital
Payments payments, continued efforts for
(511.53*5.5) strengthening the digital payment
ecosystem is required including the
following:

• Enhancement of digital
payment infrastructure,
particularly in tier3 and below
regions
• Incentive schemes for
promotion of digital payments
• initiatives for onboarding small
and rural merchants on Digital
payments
• Awareness, Capacity Building,
and Financial Literacy
initiatives for wider adoption of
digital payments
• Promotion of start-ups in the

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 Fintech domain, including
funding innovative proposals
• Leveraging emerging
technologies for the
development of innovative
payment solutions.
• Promotion of offline/feature
phone based digital payment
solutions for enhanced
penetration of Digital Payments.

• Global expansion of BHIM-UPI

and Rupay including cross-
border remittance using UPI.

*The total outlay is provided including: -

a. Expenditure in FY 2021-22
b. BE for FY 2022-23

***

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Annexure-C-Overall Inter-ministerial Consultations (held in 2021) and its responses

The EFC note on continuing schemes under Digital India programme beyond March 31, 2021, was circulated for inter-ministerial consultations. The
scheme-wise comments / suggestions were received from Ministries / Departments and the response on the same from Programme Division are placed at
as follows:

Scheme - Manpower Development / PMGDISHA

S.N. Ministry & Department And their comments / suggestions or Response of MeitY
clarification sought

Department of Telecommunications
1 As regards to activities related to Internet Governance under first sub- HRD
scheme namely ‘Manpower Development and PMGDISHA’, it is to be
mentioned that Internet Governance is an important policy and The suggestion is noted.
governance issue. Internet connectivity is provided through switching
and access networks by DoT through its service providers like TSPs. In
recent years Internet base has grown manifold, courtesy emerging
technologies like 4G. There is an important role of DOT, its standard’s
body TEC and TSPs/ISPs in Internet Governance. A multi-stakeholder
model for Internet Governance should be adopted. As far as IP
addressing is concerned, importance of IPv6 should be communicated
and fresh allocation should be of IPv6 only.
2 Regarding e-infrastructure projects related to Wi-Fi, V-SAT E-Infrastructure division of MeitY is not working on public
connectivity, Open Wireless Access Network etc under first sub scheme deployment of infrastructure. The projects of E- Infrastructure
namely ‘Manpower Development and PMGDISHA’, DoT units are division are small projects and not National level schemes. These
projects cater to specific user requirements like request to set up
having expertise in these areas and may plan these projects in a better
Wi-Fi in University in closed environment. Setting up VSAT
way. Further, V-SAT connectivity for internet access in NE region is connectivity was in schools of NE region and not for citizens.
also being done under USOF schemes and therefore duplication of these Similarly setting up Optical Wireless Access Network for Rural
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 projects may be avoided. and Urban Communication, is an R&D project, wherein
simulations are being done under the project and being tested at
lab level/premise of the implementing agency.

Thus, the projects of E-Infrastructure division do not overlap

with any other project / scheme of Ministry / Department under
Government of India.
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
3 Reference to point mentioned in EFC on Technology mediated delivery
of e-courses in Medical Science Education for NER Medical Colleges, The suggestions are noted.

Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW) has established

National Medical College Network (NMCN) with the purpose of e-
Education and National Rural Telemedicine Network for e-Healthcare
delivery wherein 50 Government Medical Colleges has been
interconnected, riding over NKN (National Knowledge Network – high
speed bandwidth connectivity). MoHFW has established a National
Resource Centre (NRC) at SGPGI- Lucknow and 7 Regional Resource
Centres (RRCs) in different zones to take up the task of NMCN
implementation covering entire country as follows:

• NRC cum Central RRC -SGPGIMS, Lucknow

• RRC, North - PGIMER, Chandigarh
• RRC-Central - AIIMS, New Delhi
• RRC-South - JIPMER, Puducherry
• RRC-East -IMS, BHU, Varanasi
• RRC-West - KEM, Mumbai
• RRC-North East- NEIGRIHMS, Shillong
• RRC-South II- SCTIMST, Thiruvananthapuram

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 Currently, Tele-Education component under NMCN scheme has been
successfully implemented and operational in 50 Medical Colleges.

To avoid duplicacy of effort, MeitY may leverage the National Medical

College Network (operational in 50 medical colleges) of MoHFW to
enable the technology mediated delivery of e-courses in Medical Science
Education for NER Medical Colleges under Digital India Programme.

4 The Digital India Programme of MeitY may be integrated with all the 25 The suggestion is noted.
Technology Innovation Hubs (TIHs) of NM-ICPS in terms of collated
product development, application development, HRD and meeting the
requirement of the Stakeholders particularly Government and PSU’s.
For the purpose, it is suggested that the representatives of the Mission
(NM-ICPS) may be included in various Committee’s of the Digital India
Programme.
NITI Aayog
5 Reference to Scheme I: Manpower Development -Visvesvaraya PhD While obtaining the approval of cabinet in 2014 the existing
Scholarship Scheme scholarship schemes were noted and accordingly "Visvesvaraya
PhD Scheme" was designed to focus in the areas of IT/ITES &
ESDM and the commitment made under National Policy on
There is overlap with other Scholarship Schemes of the Government of
Electronics (NPE) 2012 & National Policy on IT (NPIT) 2012
India running by Ministry like social justice, HRD and DST. It needs to were also kept in view. Further the scheme was designed to be an
be ensured that beneficiary get scholarship only under any one of the institutional scheme where no direct funding to the Candidate is
schemes. given. The fellowship is disbursed to the candidates through the
institutions where the Candidates are enrolled. Under the
Scheme, the participating Institution ensures that a candidate
receiving fellowship under this scheme is not receiving any
financial support for PhD from any other scheme of Government
of India/States etc at the same time.
6 Reference to Scheme I: Manpower Development - SMDP-C2SD: The SMDP-C2SD is a single project and it is being implemented
(training through educational institutions for VLSI design) by R&D (IT), Division and GIA from Manpower Development
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 Program.
Outcome of the Scheme to be indicated. SMDP-C2SD program has been
mentioned in sub scheme VI- ‘R&D in IT’ as well as in Sub Scheme I-
‘Manpower Development Program’. They should be clubbed.
7 Reference to Scheme I: Manpower Development -ESDM Scheme-1 The Scheme is currently operational till 31-Mar-2022.
(Assistance to 7 states for systems design), the sunset date of the scheme
needs to be indicated.

8 Reference to Scheme I: Manpower Development – NIELIT Centres Cost Details

• Breakup of capital cost and operating costs of the new centres has The proposal for setting up of new NIELIT Centre/Extension
not been given. The same may be provided. The need analysis of centre at Lucknow, Ayodhya, Shimla, Gujarat, Goa Daman and
one other new Centre as per the need (during FY 2021-22 to FY
such centres based on a gap in availability of existing training
2025-26) are under consideration with MeitY. The proposed
centres in Government / Private space needs to be done. outlay Rs. 55 crore is envisaged for the next 5 years.

• The option of delivering such trainings through existing institutes Need Analysis
may also be explored instead of creating standalone institutes.
Human resource is the single most promising development asset
In case there is a justified need to establish a standalone new centre, of the country. A large section of the society is not able to get the
possibility of private sector participation through annuities etc. may opportunity of training in the IECT Sector in remote / deprived
also be explored. areas due to inadequate access to quality education, training
facilities in computers and IT etc. Further, the Vision 2020
document of North-Eastern Region indicates the recent
• The money should be sought only when land and other mandatory
population growth in many of the NE States has meant that a
clearances have been obtained. substantial proportion of the population is younger than 14 years.
Education will be the most critical input to empower these young
people. The document also mentions that human resource is the
single most promising development asset of the North East.
There are low training facilities available through private
institutes particularly in the backward/ deprived areas.

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 Other suggestions

These are noted.

9 Reference to Scheme I: Manpower Development – PRIME

(reskilling/upskilling of IT manpower/ Govt officials) The total outlay of the approved FutureSkills Programme is Rs.
436.87 Crore over a period of three years which would cover a
The courses under PRIME are paid. The basis of arriving at expenditure target of 4.12 Lakh beneficiaries (4 lakh Professionals, 10,000
Government Officials and 2,000 Trainers).
of Rs 425 Cr has not been provided.
The Sectoral Groups of Secretaries (SGoS) (FY 2019-20 to FY
2023-24) has listed FutureSkills PRIME programme in its Vision
Document and has recommended that under FutureSkills PRIME
programme a total of 7 Lakhs beneficiaries may be targeted upto
FY 2023-24.

Taking this in account and also the need to up-skill/re-skill the

existing workforce to adopt the emerging technologies, it is
proposed to cover 8.5 lakh beneficiaries in the next 5 years upto
FY 2025-26 including 4.12 lakh as envisaged in the existing
FutureSkills PRIME and an additional target of 4.38 lakh
beneficiaries. The proposed expenditure for Reskilling /
Upskilling of IT Manpower of additional 4.38 lakh candidates is
kept at Rs. 425 Cr.

The basic cost component of the proposed expenditure are as

follows:
a. Operational and maintenance of existing platform including
cloud infrastructure hosting cost of the Aggregator of
Aggregator Platform
b. Incentive cost to candidates (this is an approved component of
the FutureSkills PRIME progarmme to encourage the eagerness
of the candidates to complete propose NOS/Job Role based
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 certification)
c. Train the trainer/ Govt official Training to be borne
d. Assessment and Certification Cost
e. Blended Learning Resource Centres Costs
f. Upgradation of existing content, Curation of new Job
Roles/NOS depending on the emerging requirements

It is stated that due process would be followed by MeitY while

formulating the new scheme through inter-ministerial
consultations, including obtaining comments of NITI Aayog and
the approval of competent authority would be obtained for
implementation of the new scheme.
10 Reference to Scheme I: Manpower Development – Medical eCourse -
NER, the budget requirement of this component needs to be specified. The budget outlay of the project is Rs 5.47 Cr.

11 Reference to Scheme I: Manpower Development – IT for masses

program, the details of how the program will be implemented and IT for Masses Programme under Manpower Development
detailed breakup of costs to be provided in the memo. Considering the scheme is aimed to initiate/promote activities in ICT for focus
current scenario of pandemic, most of the training programmes to be groups (Women, Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, Senior
Citizen, Differently Abled & Economic Weaker Section (EWS)
designed based on latest pedagogy using online digital technology i.e.
and areas (North Eastern Region, Backward Districts and Blocks
MOOC courses. Self-learning modules and course should be made & Districts having more than 40% SC/ST population.
available on digital platform free of cost or at minimal cost to the
masses. Since the many of these candidates do not have own
devices / equipment to attend the online training programme.

Hence, offline training is essential for them however, attempt has

been made by the Implementing agencies to cover at least those
candidates having devices to attend theoretical part of the
training via online mode. Also, to mention that few of the
training programme like Usage of Wood curving Machine, 3D
Printing through CHIC CAD etc cannot be done in online mode.

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 Considering the current scenario of pandemic, during the PRSG
meeting for the projects under IT for Masses, all Project
Implementing Agencies are instructed to perform some possible
activities (feasible) through Online Mode.
12 Reference to Scheme I: PMGDISHA, breakup/ details of cost
components under the scheme needs to be furnished. The scheme is not The breakup/details of cost components under the
recommended as Ministry’s Third-party evaluation report indicate PMGDISHA Scheme are as below:
several loopholes and leakages in the scheme viz. 72 % beneficiaries
already had prior digital experience and 87% reported paying training & S.N. Break-up of expenditure per Amount in Rs
certification fee. beneficiary
1 Training Fee 300
2 Certification Fee 70
3 Project Management Expenditure 21.90
(Software
Development and Maintenance,
Hosting of Application & eKYC
Authentication, IT infrastructure,
Advocacy and Awareness
Generation, Impact Assessment
Study, Training fee etc.)

In reference to the comments of NITI Aayog viz. 72 %

beneficiaries already had prior digital experience and 87%
reported paying training & certification fee, it is stated that these
comments of NITI Aayog are not seen in the third party
assessment study report of PMGDISHA scheme conducted by
Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA). The third party
assessment study report of PMGDISHA scheme was conducted
by IIPA which has also been shared with NITI Aayog. This
report has highlighted the following w.r.t. PMGDISHA Scheme:

a. PMGDISHA is an unique scheme due to its mass scale and use

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of remotely proctored examination.
b. 18% fund used in SCSP, 12% for TSP and 11% for NER have
made sure the empowerment of weaker sections.
c. Women participation is very large and their inclusion at the
rural level will open up the path for the learning of the whole
family
d. More than 55% of respondents cited a direct benefit to their
livelihoods after PMGDISHA training.
e. Almost respondents 50% stated that PMGDISHA helped them
get a better Job.
f. More than 40% of respondents empowered 1-5 people, 22.8%
were able to help 6-10 people, 12.9% were able to help 10-20
people with the knowledge from PMGDISHA
g. PMGDISHA training has had a formidable impact on the use
of ICT and other forms of digital media.
h. PMGDISHA has served the beneficiaries by facilitating their
access to a wide range of information points and services for
multitude of purposes. It has helped to decrease the overall
digital divide in the country.
i. The scheme has the capacity to aid India in achieving its 5
trillion dollar milestone by the means of rural grassroots level
empowerment

Further, with regard to comments regarding loopholes and

leakages in the Scheme the following is submitted:
i. The authentication measures are taken to confirm that the
candidates registered under the scheme are digitally illiterate.
The identification of the beneficiaries is carried out by Village
Level Entrepreneur (VLE) of CSC-SPV in active collaboration
with Gram Panchayats and Block Development Officers. The list
of such beneficiaries is then made available on the scheme portal
which states that the candidates selected for the scheme
are resident of same village & gram panchayat and are digitally

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 illiterate. During registration a self-declaration is taken from the
beneficiaries that he/she is digitally illiterate.
ii. Further, Aadhaar based authentication is used during the
registration of beneficiaries under the scheme to ensure that the
candidates who were certified under NDLM/DISHA scheme
cannot enrol again.
iii. In earlier schemes of Digital Literacy i.e. NDLM & DISHA
75% of the training fee was borne by the Government in respect
of General Category who were supposed to bear the remaining
25% of the training fee whereas for SC/ST/BPL categories 100%
fee was borne by Govt. Under PMGDISHA scheme 100%
training fee for all categories of beneficiaries is to be borne by
the Government. The same is categorically mentioned in all the
documents.
iv. The training fee is payable directly to respective Training
Partners/Centres through CSC-SPV on successful certification
of candidates trained by them. Examination Fee/ Certification
Cost is also directly paid to the duly registered Certifying
Agencies for the assessment and certification of candidates.

In view of above, it may be noted that there are no loopholes or

leakages in the PMGDISHA scheme due to the rugged
implementation framework of the scheme.
13 Output Outcome Framework
The 3rd party/independent evaluation of both Manpower
1) For the 8 sub-schemes under the umbrella scheme “Digital India Development Schemes as well as PMGDISHA scheme was
Programme”, the note indicates the outcomes of the scheme in the carried out and their funding has been included in the EFC
documents. The element of 3rd party evaluation would be kept in
form of measurable indicators which can be used to evaluate the
as integral component of all the major projects/schemes under
proposal periodically. The 8 sub-schemes area also monitored the Manpower Development Scheme including PMGDISHA.
regularly through the Output Outcome Monitoring Framework. In
addition to the outcomes suggested in the note and those already part The suggested indicators have been noted.
of the OOMF, DMEO recommends to include more indicators.

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 2) The note must include arrangement for third party/independent
evaluation of the scheme going forward which is not mentioned in
the document. Please note that evaluation is necessary for extension
of scheme form one period to another. Further, it is recommended
that impact evaluations through third party must be preferred over
independent review committee evaluations.
3) It is noted that the details of empowering committee that will
regularly monitor the scheme performance have not been
incorporated. It is suggested that the note details out the roles and the
members of the empowering committee for the scheme.
4) Under the “Promotion of Digital Payments” sub-scheme, two of the
objectives are “Evolving and facilitating appropriate standards for
efficient, affordable and secure Digital Payments Services” and
“Creating requisite enabling infrastructure for Government's Digital
Payments Service Delivery, Electronic Payments and Receipts (EPR)
and Direct Benefits Transfer (DBT) program”. It is recommended
that focus should also be given on these objectives while formulating
the action plan.

Department of Expenditure (46 Comments)

14 No detailed cost estimates along with their justification has been given The details are provided.
for any of the components of Digital India Programme.

15 It is noted that there are instances of overlapping of components of sub- No Scheme is overlapping under Manpower development
schemes under the Umbrella. In consideration of the para x of DoE O.M Schemes.
dated 8/12/2020, it is suggested that clear convergence architecture be
drawn for similar components.

MSDE

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16 Under manpower Development, it is sated that 24 lakh people have been Manpower Division & PMGDISHA
trained in the past 5 years. However, no information has been provided
w.r.t the areas in which training has been imparted, final outcome in The Skill Development activities of the MeitY are primarily
terms of Job placement being offered to the trainees and self- being taken up by its two autonomous societies viz. National
employment opportunities created by virtue of such trainings. Also, what Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT
is the skill being developed through such trainings is also not clear. previously known as DOEACC) and Centre for Development of
Advanced Computing (C-DAC). In addition, the various
organizations/attached offices under the Department viz. ERNET
India, Media Lab Asia, CSC E-Governance Services India
Limited, STQC, NIC etc. are also engaged in capacity building/
training of various stakeholders.

Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE)

assigns a skilling target to MeitY each year and as on 30th Sept
2019 more than 24 Lakh candidates have been trained in 05 years
(i.e., FY 2015-16 to 2019-20).

The above training is being in the area of Electronics and ICT.

As per the common norms the National Skill Qualification
Framework (NSQF) Compliance Courses are being delivered.
NIEILT has a total of 85 National Skill Qualification Framework
(NSQF) Compliance Courses; and, C-DAC has a total of 40
National Skill Qualification Framework (NSQF) Compliance
Courses. Under the schemes for Skill Development in ESDM
Sector a total of 59 NSQF courses are also being delivered. The
courses are vetted by industry and approved by National Skill
Qualification committee.

With regards to the job placement being offered to the trainees

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 and self-employment opportunities created by virtue of such
training, it is stated that the initiatives of the HRD Division are
targeted to ensure availability of trained human resources for the
manufacturing & service sectors of electronics and IT industry.
The payment made to the training provider is as per the
guidelines of Common Norms for Skill Development issued by
the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship and
final payment of 20% is made to the training provided after
successful placement of the candidate.

17 It is stated that one of the objectives of Visvesvaraya scheme is to The “Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme” initiated in 2014 with a target
facilitate generation of IPRs and capacity building. Achievement in this to enhance no. of PhDs in the area of ESDM & IT/ITES has a
regard may be provided. Also, how many laboratories have been provision to support the upgradation/creation of Labs, equipment
upgraded? etc under Infrastructure Grant. This has helped the researchers in
taking up research in emerging areas.

55 Institutions for 415 Full Time PhD Candidates supported

under the scheme have availed support under "Infrastructural
Grant" to upgrade the labs based on their proposals and have
taken up research in emerging areas.

45 PhD Candidates from 28 Institutions supported under

Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme" have reported filing of 62 patents in
the area of ESDM & IT/ITES covering emerging research areas
including Internet of Things, Optoelectronics, UV detectors,
Nano electronics, Electric Drives, Image Processing, Wireless
Communication, Electronics, Digital Electronics, VLSI Design,
Optical Wireless Communication, Bio-MEMS and etc.
18 Under scheme for financial Assistance for setting up of Electronics and Under the scheme for Financial Assistance for setting up of

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ICT academies, who are these faculties, whether any standardized/ Electronics and ICT Academies Seven (07) Electronics and ICT
accredited FCD is being followed, and what is the year wise financial academies have been set up and are operational at premier and
allocation for this sub scheme. leading academic institutions viz. (i) NIT Warangal (ii) IIITDM
Jabalpur (iii) IIT Guwahati (iv) NIT Patna (v) IIT Kanpur (vi)
IIT Roorkee and (vii) MNIT Jaipur. Under the scheme the
targeted beneficiaries are the Faculty/Mentors of Engineering
Colleges, Science, Arts, Commerce colleges & Polytechnics of
the States/UTs.

Standardized/accredited is being followed by the all E&ICT

Academies. All Academies have already set-up an Academic
Committee and a Research Committee with relevant experts
from industry, Sector Skill Councils and academia which would
recommend various FDPs programmes to be launched by the
respective Academy. While the Research Committee would
advise on the emerging areas on which the faculty development
could be initiated, the Academic Committee would take care of
various aspects like development of new courses, syllabus,
course
content, curriculum, e-content, identification of experts, etc. This
is to ensure that the training programmes are as per the emerging
requirement in the electronics and ICT sector and also in line
with the local/region specific requirements. The quality and the
standard of the courses and other activities of each Academy
maintained through Academic and Research committee. The
courses are being delivered through Conventional Class Room
Mode, NKN Mode & Online mode by inviting experts from IITs,
NITs, IIITs and other premier institutes/ industries. The FDPs are
being coordinated by a Global Coordinator / Principal

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 Coordinator with the support of Co-Global Coordinator/ Co-
Principal Coordinator of each academy. In addition, course
coordinators at respective academies take care of practicals,
Assignment, quiz, case studies etc. The duration of FDPs are
ranging from 40 Hours to 80 Hours (50% of duration for
tutorial/assignments and 40% practical/ hands on training and
remaining 10% dedicated to pedagogy, soft skills and for
practice/ demo teaching sessions). Subsequently, certificates to
the candidates are being issued based on the
evaluation/assessment by each academy. The details of the FDPs
are also being apprised to the AICTE/UGC/NBA by sending
detail brochure containing courses details, modules, duration etc
from time to time. The proposed target to be achieved in next
five year is 1,00,000 faculty members.

The proposed year wise financial allocation under the scheme is

as under:

Year Financial Allocation (Rs in Crore)

Year 1 18
Year 2 8
Year 3 8
Year 4 8
Year 5 8
Total 50

19 Special manpower development programme for chips to system design The details on implementation methodology and
is a high end training programme. Following issues need to be have been added.
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 addressed:
Regarding alignment with PLI Scheme, it may be noted that
(a) What is the methodology to execute this scheme? Special manpower Development Programme for chips to System
(b) Since Industry is the biggest beneficiary of such programme, has any
Design (SMDP-C2SD) is not in line with PLI Scheme. SMDP-
technical and financial partnerships been envisaged? C2SD Programme is a capacity development programme
(c) Is the scheme in line with the PLI scheme for large scale electronics
wherein students/researchers at Institutions were provided
and IT Hardware? exposure of complete design cycle from Specification to
Fabrication through R&D Projects.
20 ISEA is a soft intervention mainly involving awareness of the A total of 69,830 candidates have been trained / under-going
beneficiaries. This can be simply done by circulating a mail via NIC training in various formal/ non-formal courses in the area of
and developing a dedicated module. Zero cost solution may be adopted information security through 52 institutions (In addition, 2.76
for this sub scheme. lakh candidates reported as trained/undergoing-training by 5
Technical Universities participating under the project).

It may be noted that the scale and coverage of awareness

activities through direct/indirect mode targeting various user-
groups, as outlined above, may not feasible by simply circulating
mails via NIC. Further, a reasonable capacity has been generated
under the ISEA project which has led to generation of human
resources in this niche area and introduction of several
formal/other courses at various levels in the area of Information
Security through a network of 52 institutions. During COVID-19
situation, ISEA Project has been able to roll-out various
programmes in online made, which inter-alia includes an online
training programme for Government personnel of Central
Ministries / Departments in cyber security initiated as per the
directions of Hon’ble PM. Over the years, there has been a
greater recognition of cyber security risk due to increasing
reliance of the economy, society, and government on digital

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 technology. Keeping this in view and considering the impact of
emerging technologies on cyber security, the institutional
framework of ISEA Project would need to be supported and
strengthened for building capacity for fostering knowledge,
training and creating mass awareness in the country.

21 PMGDISHA aims at digital literacy in rural India. However no light has Under PMGDISGA the cost per beneficiary is Rs. 391.90. The
been thrown as to how such literacy will be imparted, any gap analysis cost of actual training is Rs.15/per hour as total training duration
w.r.t states having better digital literacy vis a vis states requiring more is 20 Hrs. The cost breakup is as below:
resources, what is the mechanism to trace trainees (whether it is Aadhar
based), what is the rationale behind outlay of Rs 2200 crore ? a) Rs. 300 Training Fee/candidate
b) Rs. 70 Examination Fee/candidate
c) Rs. 21.90: PMU Fee/candidate

Under the PMGDIHSA so far, an amount of Rs 1,338 crore has

been made available for the implementation of the scheme. In
commensurate with funds available so far 5.10 crore
beneficiaries have been registered, 4.28 Crore beneficiaries have
been trained and 3.16 crore beneficiaries have been certified
against the target of 6 crore beneficiaries, hence a target of
certifying 2.84 crore beneficiaries is still to be achieved under the
scheme, an amount of Rs.1,013 crore would be required to
achieve the same. Further, as per the target given by Sectoral
Groups of Secretaries (SGoS) to achieve a cumulative target of
9.00 crore digitally literate (60% of the rural population across
States/UTs) by the F.Y. 2025-26, an additional fund of Rs. 1,175
crore would be required for the target of 3 crore beneficiaries.

It may be noted that out of the total 14 crore rural households in

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 the country, a large population of rural India is still digitally
illiterate and required digital literacy training. MeitY will bring
out a new Scheme to achieve the proposed target of training 3
crore beneficiaries, which would have the broad contours of the
existing scheme.

The fund requirements to achieve the cumulative target of 9.00

crore (6 Crore beneficiary under the PMGDISHA+3 Crore
beneficiary in new proposed digital literacy scheme) would be
approx. Rs. 2200 crore. It is stated that due process would be
followed by MeitY while formulating the new scheme through
inter-ministerial consultations, including obtaining comments of
NITI Aayog and the approval of competent authority would be
obtained for implementation of the scheme.
Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship
22 Adherence to National Policy on Skill Development and The suggestion is noted.
Entrepreneurship, 2015: Any Skill Development training under the
Umbrella scheme of Digital India Programme should be in accordance
with National Policy on Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, 2015.
It is advisable to coverage proposed activities of the umbrella Scheme
with the available resources in the MSDE skilling eco-system to avoid
duplication of activities, avoidable creation of new infrastructure to save
funds and manpower, etc.
23 Manpower Development and PMGDISHA: All the courses should be
aligned to National Skill Qualification Framework (NSQF) and any The suggestion is noted.
expenses must be adhered to the Common Cost Norms notifications
issued by MSDE from time to time.

Existing NSQF courses through Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana

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 (PMKVY) implemented by MSDE can be integrated to help with the
proliferation of Digital India education and improving the computer skill
level of the workforce. A basic digital education programme may be
integrated as part of PMKVY and can be made in consultation with
MeitY.

24 Convergence of data and the schemes: Skilling undertaken through The suggestion is noted.
Digital India may be brought under Skill India Portal (SIP) to ensure
data convergence. They must be aligned to NSQF courses and brought
under the Umbrella Regulator – National Centre for vocational
Education and Training (NCVET).

25 Atmanirbhar Skilled Employee Employer Mapping (ASEEM)

Portal is a common skilled workforce directory and currently has 1.31 The suggestion is noted.
crore registered participants facilitating both skilled manpower and
employer. It is a platform that matches supply of the skilled manpower
with market demand and can be very helpful tool to ensure demand-
supply matching and placement. The ASEEM Portal may be leveraged
under the Digital India Programme for catering to manpower needs
under the mission.

Scheme: Electronic Governance (Incl. EAP)

S.N. Ministry & Department And their comments / suggestions or Response of MeitY
clarification sought
Department of Revenue
1 The Comments of Department may be treated Nil. It is noted.

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 Department of Telecommunications
2 DoT supports the proposal considering the importance of Digital It is noted.
India Program.
3 BharatNet project is being implementation by DoT to provide It is noted.
broadband connectivity to all the Gram Panchayats (GPs) in the
country. The aforesaid BharatNet broadband connectivity may be
utilized for the said MeitY schemes, wherever feasible and to the
extent possible.
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (4 Comments)
4 Ref. e-Hospital and ORS, the following things may be clarified. E-Gov and ET Division
A project proposal* has been submitted by NIC for the period of five
• Under DIP, what type of support (Cloud infra, Manpower etc.) years for creation and deployment of cloud infrastructure for hosting
will be provided to NIC for integration of 425 Hospitals with NextGen e-Hospital application for implementation of 1000 public
eHospital and 260 hospitals with ORS for FY 20-21? hospitals including Disaster Recovery Setup (1:1).
Are these all hospitals new as more than 500 hospitals are already
integrated with e-Hospital and more than 360 hospitals with ORS ? Under this Project, MeitY will provide funds for procuring and
• Outcome for next four FY (22-23, 23-24, 25-26) may also be installing Cloud Infrastructure & core technical manpower for
indicated (if planned). DevOPs, orchestration of cloud and Comprehensive Security Audit of
Cloud Infrastructure.
As a part of the project, MeitY will Constitute Project Review and
Steering Group (PRSG) to monitor and review the project
implementation activities.

It is pertinent to mention that currently 370 Hospitals are reporting

live using e-Hospital and 357 Hospitals have been implemented
Online Registration System (ORS); however, proposal for the
NextGen e-Hospital application has been submitted for the
implementation of 1000 public hospitals other than the existing
hospitals using e-Hospital application & ORS.

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 Proposal for the NextGen e-Hospital application is aimed at
implementation of 1000 public hospitals in the next five years.
Department of Science and Technology
5 Department of Science and Technology supports the proposal. Noted.
NITI Aayog
6 Considering the significant contribution of “The Digital India Noted.
Programme” in the digital empowerment of citizens and digital
transformation of India, NITI Aayog supports the proposal with
scheme-wise remarks.
7 Reference to Scheme II: E-Gov Projects - Liabilities of project as on E-Gov Division
31.03.2021, no comment as the breakup of expenditure is not Project-wise funds requirements and break-up have been provided in
available. the Part B of Scheme-II.
8 Reference to Scheme II: E-Gov Projects - Externally Aided Projects E-Gov Division
(EAP), details of new Externally aided projects (EAP) to be provided Under the scheme, Technical and financial assistance is being
in the EFC memo. provided to the Ministries/Dept. of Centre/State/UTs for
implementation of new & innovative initiatives which may include
new MMPs, areas other than MMPs, pilot or prototype projects for e-
governance and other innovative projects. Based on availability of
funds, new proposals will be called from Ministries/Dept. of
Centre/State/UTs. After recommendation of Working Group/Expert
Committee, the proposals may be considered for technical and
financial support from MeitY.
Ministry of Power
9 Ministry of Power supports the continuation of ongoing umbrella Noted.
scheme namely “Digital India Programme with a request to consider
some observations.
Department of Expenditure
10 Detailed third party Revaluation Reports has not been provided in The third-party evaluation / impact assessments have been done for
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 respect of any of the schemes falling under the Umbrella Scheme several schemes of Digital India programme. The report being bulky
‘Digital India Mission’. and heavy in size is not reproduced in as-is format and instead the
excerpt of report is provided in the respective scheme-wise details at
Part B.
11 In case of E-Governance scheme, a comparative table showcasing E-Gov Division
actual achievements vis a vis targeted outcomes may from part of Details of achievements and targeted outcomes of the key projects
EFC memo. under e-Governance scheme are included in the EFC memo [at II.
Electronic Governance Scheme -> Part B -> Sr. No. 7 and Sr. No. 14].
Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
12 No Comments It is noted.

Scheme - NKN/DII

S. N. Comments of the stakeholder Ministries / Departments Input/ remarks of NKN Division

1. Communication No.14-08/2021-UBB dated 28th June 2021 from
DOT: Annexure B contains the comments of DOT on EFC for DII.
“… Following may be noted in this regard: The DII proposal has
been recommended by EFC in its meeting held on 19.10.2020.

…”
2. Communication No: 16(12)-B(SD)/2021 dated 18th June 2021 Nil input as no specific comment on NKN.
MoF, DoE, Budget Division
3. Department of S&T Communication No. G-35032/47/2021-IFD Nil input as no specific comment on NKN.
(1816257/2021/IFD)
4. Communication No. SD-17/41/2021-ICT dated 19th July 2021 New links could be considered when DII would be initiated.
from MoSD&E (IC&T Division): It may be noted that DII is in advance stage of approval
“… process. Accordingly no new links are being considered under
NKN as period of current project is up to 31st March 2023,

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 and it is now in consolidation stage.

…”
5. Office of Principal Scientific Advisor to the GoI:
“… The DCN on DII proposal was considered by Empowered
Communicated comment on NKN 2.0 / Digital India Infoway in Technology Group in its 19th meeting held on 27.01.2021.
the meeting of ETG…” The recommendations of ETG are as follows:
“…
1. ETG endorsed the proposal from MeitY
2. Dark fibre to be taken from different government and
non government entities as per availability and suitability
to the project requirement.
3. Trusted sources and agencies to be employed for project
implementation to ensure safety and security
considerations.
…”
6. Comments/ suggestions received from the PA&MD, NITI (i) The estimated contribution of user ministries (other than
Aayog: MeitY) is INR 1400 Cr over a period of 10 years. However,
“… the actual cost to each stakeholder Ministry / Department will
Ministry needs to clarify that only approval for MeitY has been be calculated on pro-rata basis. To ensure guaranteed flow of
shought but how the budgetary requirement of other User funds, every stakeholder Ministry / department would be
Ministries i.e. Rs. 700 Cr under the NKN 2.0 / DII scheme will required to create a budget head called “Digital India
met through…” Infoway”.

(ii) The funds for the DII project will be released to NICSI (a
section 8 company under NIC), by MeitY and other
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 stakeholder Ministries/ Departments. The Utilisation of DII
project funds by NICSI will be under guidance of NIC.
Further, the responsibility of implementing the project will
solely lie with NIC.
7. Comments of DoE:
“…(xvii) It is mentioned that Total outlay proposed for 5 years is
Rs. 3395 crores. For FY 2021-22, the budgetary requirement for NKN is an ongoing project, which was extended till 31st
continuance of NKN is Rs. 515 crore as per NIC. But it is noted March 2022, accordingly Rs. 515 cr was requirement for FY
that for F.Y. 2021-22 Rs. 786 is the projected outlay. This 2021-22.
difference of budgetary requirement and projected outlay may be Whereas, DII is under the process of approval, and Rs 786 cr
clarified…” is 1st year’s outlay (MeitY’s contribution).
DCN is under submission for approval of competent authority
“…(xviii) The DCN on the DII may be forwarded for inter before it could be circulated for inter-ministerial consultation.
ministerial consultation…”

Scheme - Promotion of Electronics and IT Hardware Manufacturing

S.N. Ministry & Department And their Response of MeitY

comments / suggestions or clarification
sought
NITI Aayog
1 Reference to Scheme IV: Promotion of IPHW
Electronics/ HW Mfr - 4 CoE at IIT K, B, M &
AMTZ Vizag All the CoEs have been established with definite sunset date. The details are as
follows:
Establishment of CoE to be time bound with
definite sunset date for the component. S.N. Name of CoE Date of completion
1 National Centre of 30- Nov-2022
Excellence on Large Area
Flexible Electronics
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 (NCFlexE) at IIT-Kanpur
2 National Centre of 31-Mar
Excellence on technologies -2023
for Internal securities
(NCETIS) at IIT-Bombay
3 CoE on AMOLED Display 30-Sep-2022
at IIT-Madras
4 CoE on Medical 30-April -2023
Electronics and Bio-
Physics

2 Reference to Scheme IV: Promotion of IPHW

Electronics/ HW Mfr – iCAS

Implementation stage of iCAS project to be ● Development Stage: 1 Year (15.11.2014 to 14.11.2015) - iCAS was
finished in defined time frame with no developed successfully.
overruns. Implementation Phase: 10 Years (review by C-DAC till first 3 years of
implementation phase). M/s. ByDesign has achieved the targets projected in the
RFP/ Tripartite Agreement. PRSG in its 13th Meeting held on 19.03.2021 has
considered the project completed.
3 Reference to Scheme IV: Promotion of IPHW
Electronics/ HW Mfr – Promotion of MeitY
ESDM Policies Head “Promotion of MeitY ESDM Policies”, “Making of promotional video”
and “other promotional activity may be clubbed together with the name
All promotional activities under this umbrella “Promotion of ESDM Policies of MeitY”. The revised budget for this head
will be 16 Cr.
scheme to be clubbed under one head for
synergies.

4 Reference to Scheme IV: Promotion of

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 Electronics/ HW Mfr – Joint Training in the IPHW
field of electronics/ IT
The suggestion is noted. Further, it is proposed that the expenditure toward the
Duplication/ overlap with HRD initiatives project “Training in Advanced Capabilities in Electronics Design &
under sub-scheme -I. In this umbrella program Manufacturing (TRIAC-EDM)” by NIELIT may be drawn from the budget
head Manpower of the HRD Division. And, same may be communicated to
all such overlapping activities/components to
HRD Division for inclusion.
be merged for synergies.

5 Reference to Scheme IV: Promotion of IPHW

Electronics/ HW Mfr – ESDM PMU by NISG
The suggestion is noted.
Possibility of merger of various PMUs under
the umbrella scheme to be explored.
6 Reference to Scheme IV: Promotion of IPHW
Electronics/ HW Mfr – Professional charges for
verification of claims under MSIPS, PLI, The professional charges for verification of claims under all schemes may be
SPECS etc covered under envelop of the same scheme.

Justification for the professional charges under The professional charge for M-SIPS are separate from proposed outlay of the
this umbrella scheme to be furnished when a Scheme.
budget of Rs 54430 Cr is considered separately
for the schemes viz. PLI, M-SIPS, EDF, The budgetary provision of Rs. 3,762 crore includes an amount of Rs. 37.62
SPECS, EMC 2.0 etc crore towards administrative charges payable against Project Management
Agency (PMA) i.e. STPI New Delhi for implementation and execution of EMC
2.0 scheme.
Department of Expenditure
7 Detailed third party Revaluation Reports has The third-party evaluation / impact assessments have been done for several
not been provided in respect of any of the schemes of Digital India programme. The report being bulky and heavy in size
schemes falling under the Umbrella Scheme is not reproduced in as-is format and instead the excerpt of report is provided in

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 ‘Digital India Mission’. the respective scheme-wise details at Part B Section 9.

IPHW Division

The third-party impact assessment of Electronic Development Fund (EDF) has

been done and its report is available.

The third-party analysis of M-SIPS is being conducted by National Productivity

Council has been completed.

The Third Party Impact Assessment of EMC scheme has been done in Dec.
2019, based on which the EMC 2.0 Scheme was introduced.
8 Form the memo it is noted that all are for IPHW
setting up centre of Excellence (para 1) in
different areas of electronics and technology. The detail is given in the Annexure-IPHW-Point-8.
The total outlay and the year-wise funds
released to the 4 nos. CoEs may be provided.
The commercial success potential of the 4
CoEs may be provided.
9 The para 2 scheme is for setting up of product IPHW
testing and quality control laboratories for
evaluating Electronics and IT Goods and its Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has notified “Electronics
noted extension is granted for 6 months .i.e. and Information Technology Goods (Compulsory Registration) Order, 2012”
30/09/2021. So it’s already a continuous for compulsory registration of notified electronic goods based on their
compliance to Indian Safety Standards. For success of the initiative, the
project. The commercial success potential of
available testing infrastructure and expand the network of test laboratories in
project may provided. the country need to be strengthened who could evaluate the compliance of these
goods to notified standards. This was also needed to strengthen the cause of
development and mandating of standards in the country as envisaged under the
National Policy on Electronics, 2012. The "Scheme for Setting up/ Upgradation
of Electronic Product Testing/Quality Control Laboratories" was notified to
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enhance the testing and conformity assessment infrastructure in the country.
The Scheme was notified on 25thAugust, 2013 for a period of 3 (three) years
with a total outlay of Rs. 22.50 Crore (Rupees twenty-two Crore and fifty lakhs
only). As per provisions of the Scheme, the Central/State Governments and its
Organizations/Universities (including Deemed Universities) are eligible for
Grants-in-Aid amounting to Rs. 1.50 Crore per lab subject to prescribed
ceilings. The scheme was extended for a period of 2 (two) years i.e.upto
25.08.2018.

The objectives of the scheme include:

● To encourage setting up of testing facilities which could be used for

evaluating goods under the “Electronics and IT Goods (Requirements of
Compulsory Registration) Order, 2012”.
● To establish test facilities scattered over the country for evaluating
compliance of goods to safety standards for facilitating the process of initial
registration/surveillance.
● To test the surveillance samples for the products notified under CRO.
● To facilitate exporters in getting their products tested.

The scheme was further extended time to time till 31.3.2022, with the approval
of Secretary, MeitY, to release the balance instalments of GIA to the labs which
have already been approved by PRSG. Under the Scheme the following, five
no. of Safety Labs have been approved by PRSG namely:

a. Central Electronics Centre (CEC), Indian Institute of Technology, Madras,

b. National Research and Technology Consortium (NRTC), Parwanoo,
c. Institute for Design of Electrical Measuring Instruments (IDEMI),
Mumbai,
d. Madhya Pradesh State Electronics Development Corporation Limited
(MPSEDC), Bhopal and
e. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Central Institute of Mining
and Fuel Research (CSIR-CIMFR), Dhanbad.

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 Out of these approved projects, the project of 04 labs has been completed as
they have taken NABL accreditation /BIS recognition nd the project of Madhya
Pradesh State Electronics Development Corporation Limited (MPSEDC),
Bhopal is in progress.
The infrastructure developed is expected to benefit all stakeholders including
domestic industry, exporters, importers, entrepreneurs, small and medium
enterprises, existing academic & research institutions, electronic products
standards setting bodies for testing of the goods for compliance to standards.
The labs are providing testing services to the industry.
10 What is the salary out go of the above project IPHW
w.r..tstaffs payments? The Scheme was notified to upgrade the testing and conformity assessment
infrastructure in the country. As per provisions of the Scheme, the Central/State
Governments and its Organizations/Universities (including Deemed
Universities) were eligible for Grants-in-Aid amounting to Rs. 1.50 Crore per
lab subject to the following ceiling

a. Rs. 120 Lakhs (max) for cost of laboratory equipment,

b. Rs. 20 Lakhs (max) for cost of basic supporting testing infrastructure and
c. Rs. 10 Lakhs for professional fees/ expert fee for setting up of laboratories
and cost for obtaining recognition/ accreditation calibrated and consultancy
charges thereof, cost for follow up action as well as intern assessment by
MeitY.

There is no salary outgo of the project from MeitY.

11 The AMTZ- Vishakhapatnam is build in IPHW

association with the state government under the
TIES scheme. What convergence synergy has The detail is given in para 3 of the Annexure-IPHW-Point-79.
been achieved may be outlined also the amount
of funding received under the TIES scheme and
the commercial success potential of project
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 may be provided.
12 The details cost break-up of GaN Ecosystem IPHW Division
Enabling Centre and incubator may be Regarding cost break-up, details have been provided in Scheme IV: Part B -
provided. Point 3 (page No. 138-139) on Gallium Nitride (GaN) Ecosystem Enabling
Centre and Incubator.

13 As mentioned that the Icas is a PPP project; the IPHW Division

market capitalisation through commercial MeitY, through a novel PPP model, has funded a unique project for the
exploitation of the ‘technical knowhow’ may development and implementation of Indian Conditional Access System
be provided. (iCAS) for Set Top Boxes (STBs). M/s. ByDesign India Pvt. Ltd.,
Bangalore, in association with C-DAC has successfully developed the iCAS.
The development of iCAS has enabled India to enter a niche market hitherto
dominated by few big global companies. The iCAS is beneficial to domestic
STB manufacturers and Operators because it is available to them at a price of
USD 0.5/ license for a period of three years, as against market price of USD
3-5/ license for other competing products. The iCAS enabled STBs have been
deployed even in remote regions of the country.

14 The promotion and awareness cost is an IPHW

establishment cost hence should be removed It is noted.
and charged under general establishment or
specific to the respective schemes.
15 The professional charges for verifications of IPHW
claims of respective are already included in the The response is same as given at Page 11.
PMU cost hence the same is discarded under
this.
16 From the constituents of the overall scheme IPHW
components, it is recommended that the same Though the suggestion is marked to promotion of electronics and IT hardware
may be charged under ‘Other Central Scheme’ manufacturing, the suggestion is not related to IPHW Division.

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Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship
17 Promotion of Electronics & IT Hardware IPHW
mfg. (MSIPS, EDF and Manufacturing
Clusters): Considering the rapid pace of It is noted.
development in areas of Artificial Intelligence
(AI), Internet of Things (IoT), 5G, etc demand
driven focus on entrepreneurship developments
is suggested.

Under the scheme for financial aid for setting

up of Electronics and ICT Academy, Faculty
Development Programme may include
entrepreneurship component to Electronic
System Development and Manufacturing
(ESDM).

e-Waste management programme can be

envisaged under the local micro
entrepreneurship framework and the ecosystem
under various schemes require to include
support system for the same.

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Annexure-IPHW (Promotion of Electronics and IT Hardware Manufacturing)-Point-8

Total outlay and the year-wise funds released to the 4 Centres of Excellences (CoEs)

S.N. Name of the Project Total Budget Outlay (in Cr) Fund Released Till date as Outcome expected from the project
GIA
(in Cr)
1. Centre of Excellence for Rs.132.99 cr (Out of the total Rs.101.02 crores Development of required infrastructure and
flexible Electronics at IIT- budget outlay, MeitY’s carrying out relevant R&D in the field of
Kanpur Initiated in contribution is Rs.111.12 cr) ● 1st release of Rs 27.44 Flexible Electronics in association with
November 2014 for 5 years crore 18-11-2014 industries and incubation of start-ups.
and extended till Nov 2021 ● 2nd release of Rs 9 crore
on 12-06-2018 ● NDA has been signed with 125
● Part of 2nd release of Rs industries.
19.01 crore on 14-09-
2018 Around 20 different projects are being
● 3rd release of Rs 10 crore developed in collaboration with industries.
on 06-03-2019
● Part of 3rd release of Rs
10.12 crore on 15-01-
2020

Fourth release of Rs 10
crore on 24-03-2021

Part of 5th release of Rs.

14.02 crore on 20.01.2022
2. AMOLED Project at IIT- Rs.35.63 Rs 28.68 cr • Prototype model for AMOLED display will
Madras initiated in July ( Out of the total Budget be developed in a new and cost-effective
2018 for 2years and outlay, MeitY’s contribution ● Ist release: Rs 23.32 crore method.
is Rs 28.68 cr.) on 26-09-2018
extended till September
2 release: Rs 5.36 crore as •
nd
OLED and OPV lighting prototypes will
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 2022. on 22-10-2020 also be developed.

In his regard, 10 IPs are expected to be filed.

3. Centre of Excellence for Total outlay: Rs.32.02 cr UC has been submitted for To strengthen the medical electronics devices
Medical Electronics and (MeitY contribution: Rs Rs 12 crores out of the first manufacturing ecosystem in the country with
BioPhysics at AMTZ, 18.67 cr) release of Rs 13.069crore. suitable innovations, import substitution and
Vishakhapatnam initiated in Second installment ofvalue addition
April 2020 for three years Grant-in-aid amount of Rs.
3.73 has been released as on
29.11.2021
4 Centre of Excellence for Total outlay: Rs.83.89 cr Rs 42.545 Cr • Addressing the internal security needs of
Internal Security at IIT (MeitY contribution: the nation on continuous basis by delivering
Bombay initiated in May Rs.83.89 cr) ● Ist release: technology prototypes required for internal
Rs 24.07 Cr as on 28-09- security and to promote domestic industry
2015 up-to March 2022.
2015 in internal security.
• Nine IPs have been created under the
● 2nd release: project so far.
Rs 18.475 crore as on 06- • Two companies have been incubated and
03-2018 various technologies have commercialized
under the project.

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Scheme - Promotion of IT and ITeS Industries

Sl.
Comment Response from SIP division
No.
Department of Telecommunications
Smart city IoT/ICT elements, standardization work is being done by The programme has emerged as part of implementation of strategies
Telecom Engineering Centre (TEC), DOT. DoT has released M2M enlisted under cabinet approved NPSP for which MeitY is the nodal
Roadmap in 2015 and also released 14 Technical reports in M2M/IoT Ministry.
domain. Important emerging points have been used in the policy and
standards for the development of eco system in the country. TEC also The Living Lab project aims to address the main challenges through
1 carried out the work on M2M specifications and adopted release 1 as prototype testing, field trials, providing market access and identification
national standard. All these specifications will be quite useful for of relevant partners through industry connect for the Indian software
standards based solutions for smart cities. Further, TEC is also having product eco-system in the field of smart cities. It does not specifically
and IoT experience centre. In view of all these, the work related to work on the standards which may be small component during the Proof of
Living Labs for Smart Cities under sub-scheme 5 related to promotion Concept process. However, suggestion is noted and DoT may be engaged
of IT services and IT enabled services should be with DoT. during the execution process.
The Digital India Programme of MeitY may be integrated with all the
25 Technology Innovation Hubs (TIHs) of NM-ICPS in terms of
collated product development, application development, HRD and
2 meeting the requirement of the Stakeholders particularly Government Noted
and PSU’s. For the purpose, it is suggested that the representatives of
the Mission (NM-ICPS) may be included in various Committee’s of the
Digital India Programme.
NITI Aayog
Other comments
• The department should get all its schemes reviewed by the reputed The suggestion is noted.
3 international organization/experts along-with Indian counterparts to
understand the impact of the program and India’s position in the
world.
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Sl.
Comment Response from SIP division
No.
• In the objective to support Electronics, Manufacturing with a target
Net Zero Imports, it is recommended that focused efforts be made
to establish and support semiconductor fabrication facilities in India
with special attention to GaAs, GaN, Si based technologies.
• It is suggested that the program also recommend a strategy to
effectively implement and enforce the National Cybersecurity
Strategy at all levels of the government and to ensure compliance in
linked supply chain.
• As part of the next steps towards bringing digital transformation
through ‘Digital India’, the Ministry of Electronics & IT may
leverage ‘Emerging Technologies’ and formulate enabling policies,
wherever required. Digital India has created an attractive
opportunity for global and local businesses, startups, and platform
based innovators who will be investing in emerging technologies
customised to India’s needs across domains such as education,
healthcare, agriculture and financial services.
• Setting up incubation centres while encouraging startups in
emerging technologies such as 5G, IoT/sensors, artificial
intelligence (AI), machine learning, augmented reality (AR) and
virtual reality (VR), gaming and entertainment and support for
generation of intellectual property and patents would also give the
sector the required push.
4 No detailed cost estimates along with their justification has been given Already provided
for any of the components of Digital India Programme.
5 It is noted that there are instances of overlapping of components of sub- All proposals of SIPD are reviewed by a common working group of
schemes under the Umbrella. In consideration of the para x of DoE academia/Industry expert to avoid duplication.
O.M dated 8/12/2020, it is suggested that clear convergence

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Sl.
Comment Response from SIP division
No.
architecture be drawn for similar components.
6 The PRASSR and testing and Certification of Indian Software Products Noted. The proposal is being reconceptualised as hybrid work model
and Apps programme should be clubbed together and run collectively (work from anywhere) under an umbrella scheme for the “Promotion of
as they seek to address the same Indian Software products and Software Industry in Tier II & II locations”.
Application group. The scheme digital adoption in MSME by using
Indian Software products should be dropped as MeitY is at one hand
assisting in developing, testing and marketing the product and in the
other providing incentive them also.
It is noted that the next Generation incubation scheme, market outreach Noted.
7 initiative have already been considered under champion service sector
scheme. So the budget head needs to take into account the same.
The E & ICT sector is a very broad area to focus upon. Rather than ITeS Division under NPSP is mandated to promote a robust software and
going for an open ended R&D projects in all streams of the E & ICT product ecosystem. Targeted schemes & programmes have been
sector, we should focus spending dedicatedly in a few streams and approved by the cabinet as part of implementation strategies. The
8
achieve a strong technological command over the stream which shall implementation for targeted growth of industry is monitored by an apex
make India a market leader. committee and National Software Product Mission having experts from
industry and the academy.
DoE Comments

The Software Development Fund is not supported as there is already a Noted

9 Electronic Development Fund under EDF Policy convergence of the
same is proposed. (point xxxvii at page 5)

The NGIS, Centres of Excellence, SAMRIDH, ICT Grand Challenges, MeitY has an overarching policy called National policy on Software
Living Labs in India with Smart Cities should be clubbed together and products (NPSP) with a vision to create a robust Indian Software Product
10 run collectively as they seek to address the same set of Start-Ups. Also development ecosystem, thereby enabling IP driven holistic growth of the
this shall result in clubbing of recourses to create an impact. (Point IT Industry. The programmes mentioned such as NGIS, Centre of
Excellence, SAMRIDH, ICT Grand Challenge, Living Labs in India have
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Sl.
Comment Response from SIP division
No.
xxviii at page 4) different objectives, scope, and deliverables. Also, the beneficiary of these
programmes are not same set of startups. These programme in total cover
all the growth stage of a Software Product Enterprise starting from Startup
incubation to Company, providing investment and providing market
access to them. Therefore, these schemes are not alternative to each other
instead these schemes are independent and start from where the other
scheme ends.

Scheme: Scheme/Programme executed by Startups, Innovation & IPR division under R&D in IT/Electronics/CCBT scheme

Sl. Department Comments of the Department/Ministry Inputs/replies of the Division

No. Consulted

1. Dept. of Expenditure, TIDE 2.0- There seems a lot of overlap in terms TIDE 2.0 scheme is having a mandate that exclusively
MoF of the objective of TIDE 2.0 and the components focuses on providing sector specific ICT interventions to
under the Sub0Scheme ‘Promotion of Indian IT solve specific societal problems having a pan India effect.
Industry (IT&ITES)’, specially Next Gen. Tech entrepreneurs by use of emerging technologies are
Incubation Scheme as both are inclined towards expected to come out with solutions that would lead to
supporting start-ups. Hence the same may be significant improvements in the areas addressed. TIDE
rationalised through convergence. 2.0 wants to make a deliberate impact and promote tech-
entrepreneurship through use of emerging technologies
like IoT, AI, Block-chain, Robotics etc. for seven select
thematic areas identified based on national priorities
particularly in the realm of:

(i) Healthcare
(ii) Education
(iii) Agriculture
(iv) Financial inclusion including digital payments
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(v) Infrastructure and transportation
(vi) Environment and clean tech
(vii) Clean energy solutions
(viii) Other emerging areas (flexibility to support tech
startups to address societal challenges in ICT areas)

The Scheme is being implemented through 51 incubators

at Institutes of higher learning and Research institutions
through a three tiered approach categorized into distinct
groups (Group-1, 2 & 3) according to their respective
strength and handholding capacity of start-ups. The aim is
to eventually lead the process of handholding of
approximate 2000 tech start-ups over a period of five
years.

In addition to promoting tech-entrepreneurship, the

scheme aims to network the various R&D capabilities and
pool of strong mentors available in the research institutes
and institutions of higher learning where substantive
facilities have already been created through MeitY
support.

However, NGIS (Next Generation Incubation Scheme)

has been approved to support software product ecosystem
and to address a significant portion of National Policy on
Software Product (NPSP 2019). The NGIS aims to create
a vibrant software product ecosystem to complement the
robust IT Industry for continued growth, new
employment and enhance competitiveness.

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2. As mentioned in the SFC-MoM the TIDE 2.0 NASSCOM has conducted a third party review and
was approved with an outlay of Rs. 264.62 crore impact assessment of the present status of TIDE 2.0
for a period of 5 years from F.Y 2018-19 with scheme which is attached separately.
MeitY Start-up Hub replacing PMU. The 3rd
Party Evaluation Report may be provided as it
was mentioned that the continuation of the
scheme during the 15th FCC period shall be after
a review.

3. NITI Aayog In addition to the current indicators, the output The suggested points has already been included and
and outcome indicators mentioned in the note complied in Output Outcome Monitoring Framework for
must also be included to the Output Outcome purpose of regular monitoring
Monitoring Framework for purpose of regular
monitoring.

4. eHealth, No comments on TIDE 2.0 scheme NA

MoH&FW

5. Ministry of Power No comments on TIDE 2.0 scheme NA

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Scheme: Cyber Security (NCCC & others) Projects

S.N. Comments Received (Specific to NCCC/Cyber Security R&D area) Inputs/response w.r.t NCCC scheme (draft)

Dept. of Revenue, MoF

1 Nil Nil

DoE, MoF
2 MHA has an I4C scheme for cyber security and crime prevention. MeitY MHA’s I4C is portal is dealing the issues related
may consider convergence on some aspects specifically the components of to cyber security and crime prevention of
cyber security projects to address the problems holistically. Views of MHA Citizen/End-user.
in this regard may be taken
However, the National Cyber Coordination
In the Cyber security related scheme the output and outcome are in the Centre (NCCC) is conceived to generate an
nature of actions that will be initiated rather a comprehensive framework in aggregated view of the malicious activities taking
terms of identified/emerging threat, proposed project against such threat, place in cyber space in the country and to
What is the mechanism for public to access the benefits of the project and facilitate all stakeholders for coordinated action.
financial implication in terms of recurring and non recurring expenditure in NCCC will scan Internet traffic (flowing within
relation to such projects. These factors should be quantified as per an the country, as well as traffic originating from
illustrative table mentioned below. and terminating in the country) and aggregate
information from various identified sources with
respect to cyber security breaches. NCCC scheme
is not for public access purposes.

Due to the above, it is evident that the objective

of NCCC scheme and MHA’s I4C scheme is not
related.

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 Ministry of Power
3 Setting up of National Cyber Coordination Centre (NCCC) for enhancing National Cyber Coordination Centre (NCCC) is
Cyber Security of Indian conceived to generate an aggregated view of the
Cyber Space by recognizing the importance and need for cyber threat malicious activities taking place in cyber space in
situational awareness is also a commendable initiative which is also the the country and to facilitate all stakeholders for
need of the hour. coordinated action.
Ministry of Power is also working to strengthen the cyber security in
power sector. Hence, extending the facility of NCCC for power sector
would also provide an additional protection for cyber security of power
system infrastructure in the country.

MoHFW

4 MeitY may ensure rigorous training and capacity building in every NIL Inputs
Ministry / Department under this scheme to enable secure operations and
foster a cyber-security conscious culture at the workplace across the
country.

Series of mock drill trainings, Online training modules on cyber security

can be make available free of cost to Ministries / departments

Dept. of Telecom.

5
1) Telecom Security work is being taken care by DoT. Work related to The project for setting up of National Cyber
IoT security is already in advance stage in TEC. Telecom and IoT Coordination Centre (NCCC) was approved in
security is much more complex than IT security. DoT is already April 2015. NCCC Phase-I was implemented and

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 having Telecom CERT. operationalised in July 2017. The NCCC Phase-I
has been operational on 24x7x365 basis.
2) DoT has established Telecom Security Operations Centre (TSOC) Implementation of NCCC Phase-II is also in
for effective security incident management including identification advance stages.
and response system for telecom sector.
NCCC is a multi-stakeholder body including
NSCS, R&AW, IB, Defence, NTRO, NCIIPC,
3) The setting up of TSOC has enabled for collection and analysis of DRDO, DoT and CERT-In. All the stakeholders
meta-data of telecom network traffic, visualization and reports of are already reaping the benefits of NCCC, they
threat activities in telecom infrastructure. The indigenously have also positioned their manpower at NCCC. It
developed traffic collection solution by C-DOT has already been is worthwhile to note that DoT is also one of the
deployed at 8 Internet Services Providers’ (ISPs) Gateway key stakeholder of NCCC.
locations. DoT plans to deploy complete end-to-end solution
developed by C-DOT at more than 100 ISP Gateways to monitor The scope of NCCC is much wider as compared
the complete telecom infrastructure. to TSOC wherein telecom traffic is merely a
subset. The other components under NCCC are
4) TSOC has enabled for detection, classification and visualization of the traffic flows and SIEM logs from more than
threat activities such as Distributed Denial of Services (DDoS), 200 key organizations & State Data Centres
Misconfiguration of DNS/ DNS amplification activities, private (SDCs), DNS traffic from ISPs and BGP routing
network traffic being advertised over public telecom infrastructure metadata from across the country. Nationwide
in real time/ near real-time. The incidents detected are being shared deployment of honeypots is also being scaled up
with security agencies and ISPs for necessary actions. under NCCC to upgrade its cyber threat intel
generation capability.

TSOC, which is a more recent development after

initiation of NCCC, caters to telecom sector only
whereas coverage of NCCC spans across all
sectors be it Gov, Finance, Transport, Power or
other Critical and strategic sectors. NCCC aims

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 to generate cyber security situational awareness
and a comprehensive threat picture at National
level. NCCC provides near real-time proactive
threat detection at country level.

NCCC is envisaged as a SOC (Security

Operations Centre) of SOCs. Therefore, if TSOC
is implemented, the outcome of the same can be
integrated in NCCC to further enhance its
capability.

Dept. of Economic Affairs, MoF

6 Nil Nil

Dept. of Science & Tech.

7 Nil Nil

Niti Aayog

8 NCCC Program (National Cyber Coordination Centre ); implemented by NCCC Detailed Project Report (DPR) envisages
CERTIn by engaging Meity institution like C-DAC, STPI and R&D/ requirement of 123 posts (110 S&T and 13 non
Academic institutions. S&T posts) for the project. In line with the
requirement, CERT-In had proposed to create
It is proposed to create a Total 59 permanent posts with annual financial 124 posts (110 S&T and 14 non S&T) in 2016
implication of Rs 5.7 Cr. This proposal will need to presented before CEE against which only 65 posts (60 S&T and 5 non
committee. S&T) were sanctioned by Dept. of Expenditure,
M/o Finance. Of these 60 nos. posts have been
filled and recruitment for the remaining posts is
under process by MeitY. The proposal for
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 creation of remaining 59 posts (50 S&T and 09
non S&T) is under consideration with M/o
Finance.

Personnel Div., MeitY may take appropriate

action to comply with observation as made by
Niti Aayog.

9 NITI Aayog proposed to include the following indicator : Suggestion may be agreed to.

Output Indicators Statement :

Allocation of adequate and appropriate manpower at NCCC

Indicator:
Total number of new skilled manpower deployed at NCCC

DFS, MoF

10 Nil Nil

Ministry of Skill Development & Entr.

11 Nil Nil

Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs

12 Nil Nil

Dept. of Revenue, MoF

13 Nil Nil

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Scheme: Promotion of Digital Payments

S.N. Ministry & Department And their comments / Response of MeitY

suggestions or clarification sought
1 NITI Aayog Digital Payment Division

Reference to Scheme VIII: Promotion of Digital Payment - Under DIGIDHAN Mission, MeitY implemented multiple incentive
Incentive Schemes (viz. BHIM Cashback, BHIM Aadhaar schemes and awareness programs to promote the adoption of digital
Merchant Incentive, BHIM-UPI Merchant On-boarding, payments. The mentioned schemes (viz. BHIM Cashback, BHIM
Aadhaar Merchant Incentive, BHIM-UPI Merchant Onboarding, MDR
MDR Reimbursement)
Reimbursement) were important schemes implemented by the Mission
in the past, i.e., between 2017 - 2019.
The detailed cost break of all the incentivising schemes is
to be provided in the EFC memo. The basis of number of As per budget announcement for FY 2021-22, MeitY has undertaken
beneficiaries or number of transactions for calculating the ‘Incentive scheme for promotion of RuPay debit cards and low-value
budget for components of incentivizing schemes is not BHIM-UPI transactions (P2M)’ in order to drive adoption of digital
clear and needs to specified. Also, how it will be ensured payments in the country. The scheme was formulated to facilitate
acquiring banks in creating robust and secure digital payments
that in case of increase in transactions or beneficiaries than
ecosystem and to promote RuPay debit cards and low-value BHIM-UPI
estimated, total incentive requirement remains within the transactions (upto Rs. 2,000). The duration of the scheme was one year,
annual budget envelope and Government liabilities do not with effect from 1st April 2021 and a budget outlay of Rs. 1,450 crore.
exceed than planned. The scheme has ended on 31st March 2022.

In current scenario, digital transaction has increased The schemes were targeted to promote adoption and usage of digital
tremendously hence this component is not recommended. payment instruments by citizens and merchants. They have proven to be
extremely successful in introducing people to various digital payment
This allocation should be re-examined and allocation, if
modes. Over the last few years, tremendous uptake of digital payments
any, should be utilised to spread digital payments in rural has been observed and these schemes have played a major role in
areas and tier-3 cities with low digital penetration. achieving this growth.

Though there has been an unprecendented growth in digital payments,

the potential is still huge. Cash continues to dominate Indian markets. It
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 is therefore important to continue to push for adoption of digital
payments, targeting untapped markets/ segments/ sectors. Further,the
following areas, with a special focus on Tier-III and below regions, have
been identified for promotion of digital payments to further increase the
penetration of digital payments in the country in the forthcoming years:

• Targeted incentive schemes for Customers, Merchant, Banks,

Payment Aggregators, etc., to promote digital payments in rural
• Integration of digital payments in value chains of major sectors
like Agriculture, Education, Dairy Cooperatives, etc.
• Scheme for promotion of digital payments in unorganized sectors
like Street Vendors, etc.
• Promotion of digital payments in untapped areas, including
offline payment solutions for areas with limited network
connectivity, like J&K, Ladakh, NE, Rural areas, aspirational
districts, etc.
• Digital payment solutions for feature phones
• Promotion of startups in Fintech domain for innovative solutions
• Awareness and financial literacy campaigns, through traditional/
digital including social media in semi-urban and rural areas

2 NITI Aayog Digital Payment Division

Reference to Scheme VIII: Promotion of Digital Payment Awareness programme is an important factor for wider adoption of
– Campaigns Digital Payments, by all sectors of society. DigiDhan Mission, Ministry
Promotional activities to be carried out in vernacular of Electronics & IT in coordination with NPCI has been conducting
various training programmes for promotion of Digital Payments in the
languages. There are several promotional activities under
country. In FY 21-22, NPCI has conducted more than 30 Digital
various sub-scheme are to be brought out under on head Payment Literacy sessions. These training sessions are also conducted in
for better efficiencies local languages, depending upon the regions and the target audience.

As part of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav, Ministry of Electronics & IT has

launched an awareness campaign named ‘Digital Payments Utsav’ from
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5.12.2021, for promotion of Digital Payments across the country, in
coordination with ecosystem partners including Banks, Payment Service
Providers, Ministries/Departments and States/UTs. The approach of the
campaign includes focussed efforts for promotion of digital payments in
untapped domains including rural and remote areas, small merchants,
women, senior citizens etc.

People are the weakest link when it comes to cybersecurity. There is a

need for continuous awareness sessions to sensitize citizens. MeitY aims
to create customer awareness drives in regional languages to their target
audience on a continuous basis. Cyber aware citizens would be the
biggest help in curbing cyber-attacks and promoting secure online
transactions. Efforts in the above direction would go a long way in
prevention of cyber financial frauds.

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Annexure-D-Final observations of IFD

Manpower & PMGDISHA Scheme IFD’s Observations:

Objective: The overall objective of the Schemes/Projects implemented With regard to evaluation report & scheme:
under the Capacity Building & Skill Development Scheme is to ensure
availability of trained human resources for the manufacturing & service i. Linkage with the Industry may need to be built in the
sectors of Electronics and IT industry and also providing digital literacy to scheme document while formulating the next phase.
citizens in rural India for enhancing digital inclusion. Training Partners of Industry in the Private Sector may
also be roped in. Industry contribution may be explored.
Fund requirement Proposed: Under the Manpower & PMGDISHA ii. Further, mapping of employment of beneficiaries should
Scheme a fund requirement of Rs. 2884.00 Crore for the period FY 2022-23 be part of the project deliverable.
to FY 2025-26 has been proposed as per following breakup.
iii. Joint PhD programme with industry need to be
(Rupees in Crores)
FY 2023-24 FY 2024 -25 FY 2024-25 Total projected.
iv. Mechanism for optimum utilization of the infrastructure
827.00 951.00 1106.00 2884.00 created under the project by the start-up community
may be explored. Contribution from the industry/ToT of
prototypes developed may need to be firmed up.
Third party evaluation: The Manpower Development scheme was v. The funding support for Fellowship Programms should
evaluated by a Evaluation Committee constituted by MeitY under the be explored from the Industry, and individuals pursuing
chairmanship of Prof. Mangala Sundar Krishnan from IIT-Madras and the the fellowships
PMGDISHA has been evaluated by Indian Institute of Public
Administration (IIPA). 2. One of the initiatives undertaken under Manpower
Development Programme, for development of NE region and
Manpower and PMGDISHA Schemes comprises of following activities other backward areas, is setting up of new centres/upgradation
& Achievements: of existing centres of NIELIT. Capacity building programme
Under this scheme 35.42 Lakh skilling targets have been proposed/training of NE region must meet the demand of local industry.
during the XVth FC Cycle. Programme should be in sync with DoNER’s objective and
1. Under “Human Resource Development Progrmme” various scheme funding without overlapping.
such as Vishvesvaraya PhD Scheme Ph-1 with a objective to

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 generate 1500 PhD each for ESDM/IT&ITeS sector, Chip to Startup
(C2S) with a aim to train 85000 specialized manpower over a
period of 5 years, ISEA programme to build capacity building in
Information Security, training of govt personnel and so far 0.80 lakh
candidates have been trained, further scheme for skill development
in ESDM sector in two schemes a total of 90,00 and 3.28 Lakh
candidates are to be trained.
2. Under e-Learning Olabs NextG the objective is to design and
develop 500 online Labs and upgradation of existing 173 labs.
3. Under IT for Masses programme from 2007 onwards 5.55 lakh
women, 0.88 Lakh SCs and 0.44 Lakh STs candidates have been
benefited.
4. PMGDISHA: Its objective is to create digital literacy in rural India Observation: Present financial status of the project and
by covering 6 Crore rural household. So far 6.04 Crore candidates committed liabilities under the project needs to be indicated.
have been enrolled and 5.13 Crore have been trained under the
programme.
2. With regard to ISEA Project Phase–II: The project was approved Observation: Since the said project has not been approved as
with the total outlay of Rs. 97.54 crore for the duration of 5 years and the yet, it does not seem to fall under the continuation of the
project has been extended upto June, 2022.The implementation of the scheme and it can be taken up separately as a new initiative as
academic activities is carried out by 52 institutions across the country. per the prevalent GoI guidelines.
3. With regard to ISEA Project Phase III: has been conceptualized by a
Committee under the Chairmanship of Prof. V. Kamakoti, IIT, Madras
considering the impact of emerging technologies, vulnerabilities/threat
landscape, requirements for the country in the next 5-10 years.The Draft
SFC Memo of ISEA Project Phase-III for a duration of 5 years with a total
outlay of Rs. 332.74 crores have been prepared and circulated to various Observation: Since setting up of new 13 NIELIT
Ministries/Departments for seeking their comments, suggestions, views on Centres/Extension Centres is still under examination, it does
the proposal. It is envisaged to cover around 3.45 lakh beneficiaries under not seem to fall under the continuation of the scheme and it can
capacity & capability building etc. be taken up separately as a new initiative as per the prevalent
GoI guidelines.
4. With regard to Setting up of new NIELIT Centres /Extension Centers:
Further, NIELIT has proposed to set up new NIELIT Centres / Extension
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Centres at 13 locations that are being examined by inspection Committees
by visiting probable locations to ascertain suitability. In addition, requests
are received from several states/UTs, etc to set-up new centres of NIELIT
from time to time.

New Project/Initiatives Approved/undertaken in 2021 onwards (to Observation: Though the currency of the project is during the
continue during the XV Finance Commission Cycle under the scheme: XV Finance Commission Cycle, It is not clear as to how much
funds have been released/utilised against the approved outlay
till now.
a) MedSIM 2.0: Online Skills Lab and Virtual Patient Cases: The brief
of the MedSIM is attached herewith for ready reference. The
MedSIM (Medical Simulation platform for Medical Students) 2.0
has been approved by MeitY in the month of March,2021 with the Observation: No status of approval/outlay brought out in
regard to the project/programme.
budget outlay of Rs. 7.50 Cr. for 3 years to be implemented jointly
by CDAC, Thiruvananthapuram, Amrita University and AIIMS
Bhubaneswar. Observation: No status of the project as of now whether it is
b) Design and Development of an Intelligent On-line Teaching- completed or going to be over or extended?
Learning Portal for Enhanced Problem-Solving & Programming
Skills.

c) Setting up ICT Infrastructure in Govt. School familiarized

Observation: No status/outlays/committed liabilities etc.
usage of personalized adaptive" by ERNET India (NER): The
mentioned in the EFC Note
total outlay of the project is Rs 646.09 Lakh for the duration of the
30 months (w.e.f. March 2020).
Observations: No approved projects mentioned under Internet
Governance and e-Infra and not clear as to whether funds are
2.) Under IT for Masses Programme, 04 projects are undergoing to required for remaining period of XV Finance Commission
benefit PAN India level SC/ST Beneficiaries including Aspirational Cycle, though an outlay of Rs. 50 crore is envisaged for the
districts. existing as well as new projects for the next 5 years under
Internet Governance and an outlay of Rs. 64 crores is
envisaged for the existing as well as new scheme for the next 5
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 years under e-Infra.

Most of the operative observations of IFD have been addressed by the programme division and the same have been incorporated in the
revised EFC Memo. Therefore, IFD, MeitY recommends the continuation of the ongoing scheme viz. Manpower & PMGDISHA Scheme
beyond March, 2023.

Electronics Governance (including EAP component) Scheme IFD’s Observations:

Objective: Digital India Programme has changed the digital profile of 1. Year-wise details of funds requirement for next three years
India and by adoption citizen centric approach in delivering services with have been indicated under para 5 of EFC note. Further,
latest technology, the way of governance has changed remarkably in rural present financial status of the 33 key ongoing projects such
areas. as project outlay, duration, and committed liabilities may
also be indicated therein.
Fund requirement Proposed: Electronics Governance division has 2. Overlapping of projects within the scheme which are still
proposed total funds amounting to Rs. 5341.29 Crore for the period FY
ongoing may be avoided.
2022-23 to FY 2025-26 as per following break-up
3. Further, it has been proposed to continue the projects
implemented during 14th FC into the 15th FC also as they
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 for ongoing projects Rs. 1082.00 Crore considered essential for development of digital
for new projects Rs. 4259.29 Crore* infrastructure and e-Governance initiatives of national
importance. However, details of such projects for
continuation during the XVth FC have not been indicated
Third party evaluation: e-Governance Scheme has been conducted by as per para 13(vi) of EFC note.
Centre for Innovation in Public System (CIPS), Hyderabad. The evaluator 4. With regard to new initiatives under the scheme: Proposed
found the scheme very effective for the speedy and holistic development of
new initiatives/projects/proposals under e-Governance
digital infrastructure & services in the country.
(including EAP) Scheme may not be a part of the
Achievements: 34 State Wide area Network and 29 SDCs operational, continuation of scheme and this additional requirement may
4.94 Lakh CSC are functional PAN India out of them 3.89 CSC are be considered separately as and when approved as per the
functional at Gram Panchayat Level, 751 hospitals onboarded one- prevalent GoI guidelines.
hospitals 25.06 Crore ze-Sign issued under various programmes
implemented under the sub-schemes.

*Additional funds of Rs. 4671 Crore (for FY 2022-23 to 2025-26) has also
been sought to be required under Electronics Governance Scheme due to
initiation of new projects such as Hyper Scale Data Centre (HSDC)
Scheme, DigiLocker Phase-II, UMANG Phase-II, InDEA Phase-II, India
Portal Phase-III, e-Taal 3.0, Capacity Building scheme phase-III, Nodal
Monitoring & Promotion agency for Web accessibility compliance, Setting
up of Digital India Corporation Managed Cloud Service Provider,
GovDrive as a Service for Government officials, CollabFiles Platform and
for other new initiatives in e-Governance (Sandesh, NSSO, Transformation
of Aarogya Setu and other projects), etc. Details may be seen at para-5
under total proposed outlay.

Most of the operative observations of IFD have been addressed by the programme division and the same have been incorporated in the revised
EFC Memo. Therefore, IFD, MeitY recommends the continuation of the ongoing scheme viz. Electronics Governance (including EAP
Component) Scheme beyond March, 2023.

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National Knowledge Network (NKN) Scheme IFD’s Observations:

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Objective: NKN is to inter-connect all knowledge institutions across the Rationale for continuation of NKN it has stated that Digital
country through high speed data communication network to encourage India Infoway (DII) the next phase of National Knowledge
sharing of resources and collaborative research Network (NKN) with significantly enhanced scope and scale is
still under process of approval.
Fund requirement Proposed: NKN has proposed total funds requirement 2. It is seen that NKN started in March 2010 with an outlay
of Rs. 1010.52 Crore for the period FY 2022-23 to FY 2023-24. of Rs. 5990 Crore for a period of 10 years. The duration of
NKN has been stated to have extended till 31st March, 2023. In
Third party evaluation: An independent Impact Assessment of the NKN the part-B of the proforma NKN duration has also been
scheme has been conducted by Indian Institute of Public Administration to proposed for continuation for FY 2023-24. Total release has
evaluate the existing NKN project. In its report the evaluator has stated that
been made to the extent of Rs. 5134.70 Crore as on
the recommendations on crucial aspects of NKN are based on the four 30.06.2022. The remaining provision for NKN, hence, stands
pillars of the proposed impact assessment framework of the study viz., at Rs. 855.30 Crore. Further, a provision of Rs. 650 Crore has
Outreach, Quality of Service, Knowledge Ecosystem and Value already been made for the current year at BE out of which no
Proposition. After this comprehensive and methodological evaluation, IIPA release has so far been made in the current financial year.
concludes that NKN has become an indispensable part to the government Effectively, there is an amount of Rs 205.30 Crore (i.e.
and R&D and educational community. approved budget of Rs. 5990.00- expenditure upto June 2022
of Rs 5134.70- BE for CFY Rs. 650.00 Crore) is available
Achievements: under the scheme 1765 institutions have been against which NKN has proposed a provision of Rs. 495.52
commissioned and made operational, 536 districts links covering 488 NIC Crore for the financial year 2023-24.
districts centres across India commissioned, has 31 PoPs including 7 super
Core PoPs in various state capitals, NKN also expending its global reach by 3. It may be clarified as how the projections of Rs. 495.52
establishing 3 international PoP etc. Crore have been proposed for the FY 2023-24.

Most of the operative observations of IFD have been addressed by the programme division and the same have been incorporated in the
revised EFC Memo. Therefore, IFD, MeitY recommends the continuation of the ongoing scheme viz. National Knowledge Network (NKN)
Scheme beyond March, 2023.

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Promotion of Electronics/HW Manufacturing Scheme IFD’s Observations:

Objective: Electronics System Design and Manufacturing Division runs

ongoing and new projects under the scheme and also other schemes such as Projection for IPHW Scheme has been indicated as
PLI Scheme, M-SIPS, EMC Scheme, EDF, SPECS etc. Rs.245.50 Crores for the remaining period of XVth Finance
Commission Cycle, break-up of which, sub-scheme/on-going
Fund requirement Proposed: Under the scheme an amount of Rs 245.50 project wise, is given below
Crore for the period FY 2022-23 to FY 2025-26 has been sought.
Sr. Project Projection for
Third party evaluation: Following sub-scheme under “Promotion of No. remaining
Electronics/HW Manufacturing Schemes” have been evaluated: period of XVth
FC Cycle (FY
i) Modified Special Incentive Package Scheme (M-SIPS) has been 2023-24 to FY
evaluated National Productivity Council (NPC) 2025-26)
ii) Electronics Development Funds (EDF) Scheme has been Rupees in
evaluated by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP Crore
iii) Electronics Manufacturing Clusters (EMC) Scheme has been 1. Gallium Nitride (GaN) Ecosystem 70.94
evaluated by Indian Institute of Public Administration. Enabling Centre and Incubator
2. Promotion & Awareness of ESDM 00.16
Policies of MeitY
Achievements/Outcome: NDA with 125 industries have been signed and 3. Joint Training Program in the field 01.00
around 20 different projects are being developed under CoE for flexible of Electronics and IT
Electronics at IIT-Kanpur, similarly 9 IPs have been created under CoE for 4. ESDM PMU by NISG 09.80
Internal Security at IIT-Bombay. 5. Making of Promotional Videos 02.10
6. Other Promotional Activity 07.50
7. Professional charges for 154.00
verification of M-SIPS, PLI,
SPECS etc
Grand Total 245.50

2. While according in-principle approval D/o Expenditure has

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 separately considered PLIs, MSIPS, EMCs, EDF and SPECS
and has allocated an amount of Rs.54430 crores as committed
expenditure and has been kept out of the purview of
continuation of schemes. PLIs, EMC 2.0 and SPECS are new
schemes hence third party evaluation would only be done in
future. However, since all these major sub-schemes have been
kept out of the purview of continuation of schemes, third party
evaluation/findings are not required for the instant proposal of
continuation.

2.1 With regard to para 2 above, for reference scheme-wise

expenditure details may also be provided.

3. Rationale for continuation of these sub-scheme/projects has

been briefly indicated as proposal has been approved or
recommended by Working Group etc.

Most of the operative observations of IFD have been addressed by the programme division and the same have been incorporated in the
revised EFC Memo. Therefore, IFD, MeitY recommends the continuation of the ongoing scheme viz. Promotion of Electronics/HW
Manufacturing Scheme beyond March, 2023.

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 Promotion of IT/ITeS Scheme IFD’s Observations:

Objective: The overall objective of the scheme is to promote creation of a IT&ITeS has proposed to continue its ongoing schemes
sustainable IT/software industry leveraging India’s strength in IT sector and with budgetary requirement of Rs.658.21 Crores as per the
an Entrepreneurship eco-system having capabilities to create disruptive details of sub-schemes/projects have been proposed and
innovations and cutting edge technologies. elaborated for continuation during the period in the EFC note.

Fund requirement Proposed: Total fund requirement of Rs.658.21 Crore It has mentioned that budgetary requirement in the existing
for the period FY 2022-23 to FY 2025-26 has been indicated as following schemes with additional budgetary requirement for the
break-up. proposed initiatives in the 2nd & 3rd category; however,
(Rupees in Crores) details/bifurcation may also be indicated (refer para 5 of the
FY 2023-24 FY 2024 -25 FY 2024-25 Total EFC note).

285.08 176.83 196.30 658.21 2. It has mentioned that a program on “Creating India as
global brand in Information Technology” (refer para 2 (xiii)
of EFC note) is being conceptualized in consultation with
various stakeholders and similarly it has stated that to create a
conducive ecosystem around future emerging technology
Third party evaluation: BPO Scheme under IT&ITeS Scheme has been software product companies, sectoral 5 super Innovation
Clusters are proposed to be established (refer para 2 (xiv of
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evaluated by Spectrum Planning (India) Limited in November, 2021. EFC note) around the country. Since, the said programs have
not been approved as yet and no details such as proposed
Achievements: under BPO promotion scheme direct employment to over outlay/duration of the programme has been indicated,
50000 persons by the unit set under the scheme. Therefore, it does not seem to fall under the continuation of the
scheme and it can be taken up separately as a new initiative as
per the prevalent GoI guidelines.

3. The rationale for continuation of sub-schemes/project by

elaborating on journey of IT sector in India and signs of
moving up the value chain in software products and mobile
based delivery models. It has been stated that there is a need of
Software products specific to Indian needs to reduce time
frame for implementation of IT projects, which of today are
largely dependent on bespoke developments. It has been stated
that the National Policy on Software Products-2019 has been
approved by the Union Cabinet on February 28, 2019 with a
vision to create a robust Indian Software Product development
ecosystem, thereby enabling IP driven holistic growth of the IT
Industry.

4. Findings of the evaluation report on certain issues such as

Scheme fundamentals and Operational Issues Structural,
Scheme Modification, Delay, Operational, Lagging states,
NER/NEBPS needs to be looked into.

5. Further, the targets projections set under various

programmes under the scheme for the remainder of XVth FC
Cycle may be achieved as per the timeline.

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Most of the operative observations of IFD have been addressed by the programme division and the same have been incorporated in the
revised EFC Memo. Therefore, IFD, MeitY recommends the continuation of the ongoing scheme viz. Promotion of IT/ITeS Scheme beyond
March, 2023.

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 R&D in Electronics/IT/CC&BT Group IFD’s Observations:

Objective: To transform India into a global hub of R&D and Innovation in With regard to evaluation report:
E&IT for inclusive and sustainable growth of the national economy, to
nurture collaboration with Academia, Research Labs and Industry in India ➢ The areas based on the country need as observed by the
and abroad, to create an ecosystem to provide a supply chain for electronics Evaluation Committee may be taken up.
manufacturing in country in some identified thrust areas etc. ➢ Blue Sky Research in the emerging areas with a view to
coping up with ever changing technology may be
Fund requirement Proposed: R&D in Electronics/IT/CC&BT including undertaken.
TDIL, ET and TIDE 2.0) has proposed total funds amounting to Rs. ➢ Techno-commercial roadmaps for both commercial and
5260.45 Crore for the period FY 2022-23 to FY 2025-26 as per following
strategic sectors may be prepared/undertaken.
break-up:
➢ As suggested by the Evaluation Committee, Smart City and
(Rupees in Crores)
FY 2023-24 FY 2024 -25 FY 2024-25 Total Metro systems use cases have been identified for thrust
area.
For on- 572.79 583.09 585.68 1741.56 ➢ To ensure the privacy policy when dealing with medical
going data processing as recommended by the Evaluation
project Committee.
For new 1036.99 1215.65 1266.25 3518.89 Other observations:
projects
A) R&D in Electronics: As per para 5 of EFC note
Third party evaluation: The scheme was evaluated by a Independent Rs. 912.41 Crore has been sought Under R&D in electronics,
Evaluation Committee constituted by MeitY under the chairmanship of Dr. accordingly a list of on-going projects with year-wise break-up
Charru Malhotra, Associate Professor, IIPA for continuation of scheme may also be provided.
beyond 2020.
i) With regard to National Supercomputing
Quantifiable output of R&D in Electronics/IT/CC&BT Group from Mission (NSM): it has stated that NSM envisions to make
2017 onwards: India one of the world leaders in Supercomputing and to
enhance India’s capability in solving grand challenge problems
1 Number of Specialized Manpower Trained 23412 of national and global relevance.
2 Number of Proof of concept leading to field deployment 158
B) R&D in IT: Some of the research projects in
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 3 Number of Transfer of Technology (ToT) to industry 51 various emerging areas of IT were initiated at various academic
4 Number of technologies commercialized by ToT 223 institutions and R&D organization. National Programme in
partners leading to production Perception Engineering (NPPE), Bioinformatics Iniative of
5 Industry collaboration for research to handhold 17 MeitY, Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), Information
technology/ know-how Technology Research Academy (ITRA) and Data Analytics,
6 Collaborative research realized through networking of 15 some major on-going initiative have been elaborated in the
R&D organizations draft memo. Present financial status of on-going project such
7 Number of Patents/ Copyright obtained /IPRs filed 184 as outlay, duration and committed liabilities for next three year
8 Number of publications 1727 may be indicated.
C) CC&BT Division: It has mentioned that number of
2. R&D in IT/Elect/CCBT has also sought Additional budget requirement R&D initiative and technology development projects supported
of Rs 4174.14 Crore for new initiatives in new areas such as Autonomous at various R&D institutions across the country in the thrust
Vehicles, Electric Vehicles, Next Generation Communication Technologies areas were undertaken and completed successfully. Some of
like5G applications and use cases, 5G and beyond, 6G (including THz important R&D infrastructure of strategic importance has been
communication), Quantum Technologies and Communications, Unmanned established at Vishakhapatnam, IIT Guwahati and Guwahati
Aerial Vehicles (UAV)/drone communication, Indigenous Database University. Present financial status of on-going project such as
System, Indian Mobile Operating System and emerging technologies, outlay, duration and committed liabilities for next three year
Expansion of Additive Manufacturing and Circular Economy etc. may be indicated.
2. It has seen that there is no consistency in the additional
figures indicated in the EFC note as it is written somewhere as
Rs 4174.14 Crore under para 5 of EFC note for new initiates,
and Rs 2379.64 Cr under Annexure-B and Rs 3518.00 Crore.
3. With regard to budget ceiling it may be advised to adhere to
the directions given by Department of Expenditure for
restricting the requirement of funds as per the ceilings
indicated under para 2(iii) of DOE’s OM dated 30.03.2022.

4. Proposed new initiatives/projects/proposals under R&D in

IT/Elect/CCBT may not be a part of the continuation of
scheme and this additional requirement may be considered
separately as and when approved as per the prevalent GoI
guidelines.

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Most of the operative observations of IFD have been addressed by the programme division and the same have been incorporated in the
revised EFC Memo. Therefore, IFD, MeitY recommends the continuation of the ongoing scheme viz. R&D in IT/Electronics/CCBT Scheme
beyond March, 2023.

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 Startups, Innovation & IPR Division under R&D in IFD’s Observations:
IT/Electronics/CCBT Scheme

Objective: To build a holistic framework to support all pillars of the technology It is noted that Technology Incubation and Development
led startup-innovation ecosystem in the country and to create a networked of Entrepreneurs (TIDE 2.0) Scheme was approved to
ecosystem to support technology startups/ incubates through identifying and promote tech entrepreneurship through financial and
technical support to incubators engaged in supporting ICT
creating linkages for leveraging complementary strengths.
start-ups using emerging technologies such as IoT, AI,
Block-chain, Robotics etc.
Fund requirement Proposed: Under the scheme (funds are allocated from
R&D in IT/Electronics/CC&BT Scheme) an amount of Rs 850.34 Crore are 2. It is also noted that Support for International Patent
proposed for the period FY 2023-24 to FY 2025-26. Protection in E&IT (SIPEIT) Scheme was approved to
support Indian MSMEs and startups for filling of
for ongoing projects Rs. 170.34 Crore international patent in the ICT domain to secure intellectual
for new projects Rs. 680.00 Crore property rights on a global level and establish competitive
advantage.
Third party evaluation: i). NASSCOM has conducted a third-party review 2.1 Startups, Innovation & IPR Division: Some of major
of the present status of TIDE 2.0 scheme. NASSCOM in its review exercise initiatives have been elaborated under the EFC note and has
has come out with a brief report of the present status of TIDE 2.0 scheme provided component wise proposed outlay for the period FY
including assessment framework and ranking mechanism of the 51 Incubators 2023-24 to FY 2025-26 amounting to Rs. 170.34 Crore.
based on the cluster meetings conducted by NASSCOM with all 51 TIDE 2.0
centres. 3. The directions given by Department of Expenditure for
ii). Technology Information Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC) restricting the requirement of funds as per the ceilings
has conducted a 3rd party evaluation of the present status of Support for indicated under para 2(iii) of DOE’s OM dated 30.03.2022
International Patent Protection in E&IT (SIP-EIT) Scheme for SMEs Scheme
and strongly recommended the scheme. 4. With regard to proposed new initiatives/projects/proposals
by Startups, Innovation & IPR Division (funds allocated
Achievements: As of now 51 TIDE 2.0 Incubation Centres have been under R&D in IT/Elect/CCBT Scheme) may not be a part of
approved and made operational. Within a short span of time TIDE 2.0 the continuation of scheme and this additional requirement
scheme has gained a lot of traction. Under the scheme, more than 3000 may be considered separately as and when approved as per
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applications were received by the start-ups out of which 350+ startups have the prevalent GoI guidelines.
been onboarded across 51 Incubation Centres.

3. Startups, Innovation & IPR Division has also sought additional budget
requirement of Rs.680.00 Crore for new initiatives such as GENESIS, TIDE
3.0 Scheme, New Domain Specific Centre of Excellence in Emerging Tech
area during the remainder period of XVth FC Cycle.

Most of the operative observations of IFD have been addressed by the programme division and the same have been incorporated in the
revised EFC Memo. Therefore, IFD, MeitY recommends the continuation of the ongoing scheme viz. Startups, Innovation & IPR Division
(funds allocated under R&D in IT/Elect/CCBT Scheme) beyond March, 2023.

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Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) Programme IFD’s Observations:
under R&D in IT/Electronics/CCBT Scheme

Objective: Developing Information Processing Tools and Techniques to It is seen from the Background of the scheme that National
facilitate human-machine interaction without language barrier; creating and Language Translation Mission (NLTM) announced inthe
accessing multilingual knowledge resources and integrating them to develop 2020-21 budget of the Hon’ble FM in the backdrop of
innovative user products and services. Carrying out R&D in emerging areas growing demand for accessing online services in the Indian
and developing standards. languages. MeitY has formulated Mission BHASHINI
(Bhasha interface for India) in compliance with the budget
Fund requirement Proposed: Under the scheme (funds are allocated from announcement with an outlay of Rs 495.51 Crore for 3 years.
R&D in IT/Electronics/CC&BT Scheme) an amount of Rs 510.00 Crore are
proposed for the period FY 2022-23 to FY 2025-26. 2. Further, it has noticed that since the duration of the
NLTM is only for three years beyond FY 2020-21, however,
Third party evaluation: The programme has been evaluated by Indian it has been proposed financial requirement upto FY 2025-26
Institute of Public Administration (IIPA). After comprehensive and amounting to Rs 830 Crore, against the original approved
methodological evaluation, Evaluation Agency (EA) concluded that TDIL outlay of Rs 495.51 Crore, upto FY 2025-26. This needs to be
has become an indispensable part to the various fields of ICT, as well as for corrected.
the government. Observing the vital contribution of TDIL, EA lauds its
potential and recommends the continuation of TDIL.

Achievements: Under para 7 of the EFC note it has indicates that TTS as a
service is available and integrated with more than 6 web portals, Free OCR
launched for 7 ILs and released mobile data as per IS 16333 part-3 for self
evaluation, ASR application developed and deployed, machine translation
system developed and deployed, all developed corpus with models are
available at Bhashini portal.

Most of the operative observations of IFD have been addressed by the programme division and the same have been incorporated in the
revised EFC Memo. Therefore, IFD, MeitY recommends the continuation of Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL)
Programme as the ongoing scheme as a part of R&D in IT/Electronics/CCBT Scheme beyond March, 2023.

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 Cyber Security Projects (R&D and others) Scheme IFD’s Observations:

This scheme has two components namely NCCC Programme and Cyber
Security R&D. In view of the Evaluation Committee’s observation no. 2,
PD needs to ensure evolving a mode to fund projects to the
Objective of National Cyber Coordination Centre (NCCC): start-up units in the private sector with a view to employment
generation and also encouraging technology development
The setting up of National Cyber Coordination Center (NCCC) is a part of
culture.
the framework for enhancing cyber security of Indian cyber space by
2.1 With regard to availability of funds directions given by
recognizing the importance and need for cyber threat situational awareness.
Department of Expenditure for restricting the requirement of
The setting up of NCCC will help in securing cyber space and strengthening funds as per the ceilings indicated under para 2(iii) of its OM
dated 30.03.2022 may be adhered to.
the cyber security posture in the country.
Objective of Cyber Security in R&D: It is one of the major pillars 3. Proposed new initiatives/proposals under Cyber Security
Projects (R&D and others) Scheme may not be a part of the
identified for securing cyber space with focus on promotion of R&D,
continuation of scheme and this additional requirement may
demonstration, proof of concept and establishment of test beds for enhancing be considered separately as and when approved as per the
prevalent GoI guidelines.
skills and capabilities in the country in this critical domain.

Fund requirement Proposed: Under the scheme total funds requirement has
been indicated as Rs. 3562.88 Crore for on-going as well as for new
initiatives for the period FY 2022-23 to FY 2025-26 as per following break-
up:
(Rupees in Crores)
FY 2023-24 FY 2024 -25 FY 2024-25 Total
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 For on- NA NA NA 442.88
going
project
For new 1345.00 1190.00 585.00 3120.00
projects

Third party evaluation: With regard to 3rd party evaluation it has stated that
Report1name “Evaluation of Scheme Cyber Security Projects (NCCC &
Others)” published by 3rd party evaluation committee. It has further stated
that the committee report is a secret document, hence, sharing/forwarding of
the report is restricted). However, major observations made by evaluation
committee has been indicated under para 9 of EFC note.

2. Cyber Security Projects (R&D and others) has also sought additional
requirement of funds owing to speedy rise in Internet traffic in the country
and corresponding storage requirement for 1 year, the traffic data need to be
integrated at NCCC for proactive threat detection and situational awareness,
cost has increased accordingly. Department of Telecom (DoT) is setting up
Telecom Security Operations Centre (TSOC) which is collecting traffic flows
from ISP gateways in the country and will share with NCCC. Further, NCCC
will make arrangements for storage of traffic data for a period of 1 year and
carryout security analytics to detect cyber threat in near real-time. Also,
increased internet traffic collected by TSOC from the ISP gateways will be
integrated with NCCC on a continuous basis. Around 20 such gateways are
targeted to be covered at the earliest and 100 more will be covered within 01
year. In this regard proposal to collect, store and analyze traffic flows from
120 ISP gateways planned to be implemented in phases, initially covering 20
ISP gateways and subsequently 100 more is being prepared. To meet these
requirement funds of about Rs. 195 Cr. for the collection of 20 ISP gateways
with the annual recurring expenditure of about Rs. 55 CR. are required.
Further after 01 year, funds of approx. Rs. 975 Cr. to collect traffic flows
from 100 more ISP gateways with annual expenses of Rs. 275 Cr. will be

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required. All this expenditure will be required for capital item procurement,
MPLS connectivity and Data center expenses. 75 nos. S&T and non-S&T
manpower and separate office space for CERT-In and NCCC Data centre for
about 500 racks at the primary Data centre and 250 racks at Disaster
Recovery (DR) Data centre will be required. Budget of around Rs. 1550 Cr.
will be required for creation of Data centers and CERT-In office space.

Most of the operative observations of IFD have been addressed by the programme division and the same have been incorporated in the
revised EFC Memo. Therefore, IFD, MeitY recommends the continuation of the ongoing scheme viz. Cyber Security Projects (R&D and
others) Scheme beyond March, 2023.

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 Promotion of Digital Payment Scheme: IFD’s Observations:

Objective: Promotion of the digital payments ecosystem is an essential The three-pronged approached identified by the PD appears
aspect of the Digital India Programme and has the potential to transform the to be appropriate to promote Digital Payment.
Indian economy by extending inclusive financial services.
It may be noted that Incentive scheme for promotion of
Rupay debit cards and low value BHIM-UPI transactions
Fund requirement Proposed: Promotion of Digital Payment Scheme has (p2m) scheme was formulated by MeitY as follow up to the
proposed total funds requirement of Rs. 1287.92 Crore for the period FY announcement made in Budget Speech for FY 2021-22 to
2022-23 to FY 2025-26 as per following break-up facilitate acquiring banks in creating robust and secure digital
payments ecosystem and to promote Rupay debit cards and
(Rupees in Crores) low value BHIM-UPI transactions.
FY 2023-24 FY 2024 -25 FY 2024-25 Total
Further, it may be noted that as per budget announcement of
Promotion 437.92 425.00 425.00 1287.92 FY 2022-23 vide Para No. 62 stating that the financial
of Digital support for digital payment ecosystem announced in the
Payment previous budget will continue in 2022-23, which will
Scheme encourage further adoption of digital payments. Further, there
will be a focus to promote use of payment platform that are
economical and user friendly.
Third party evaluation: The scheme was evaluated by Evaluation
Committee constituted by MeitY under the chairmanship of Mr Krishnan It may be clarified that whether the following
Dharmarajan, Executive Director, Centre for Digital Financial Inclusion for schemes/programme have been identified keeping in view of
continuation of scheme. The committee made its recommendations and the budget announcement and will continue beyond March,
suggestions in its report. 2023:

Achievements: Coordinated efforts of the Government with ecosystem ➢ BHIM Cashback schemes for Individuals & Merchants
partners have led to a significant increase in the digital payments acceptance ➢ BHIM Aadhaar Merchant Incentive Scheme
infrastructure in the country. Details in this regard are as under ➢ BHIM-UPI Merchant On-boarding Scheme
➢ MDR Reimbursement Scheme
March 2021 February 2022 Increase
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 BHIM-UPI QR 925.22 1,600.19 72.95%
codes
Bharat QR codes 35.70 48.27 35.21%
PoS 47.20 58.34 23.60%
Micro ATMs 4.04 7.16 77.23%

Most of the operative observations of IFD have been addressed by the programme division and the same have been incorporated in the
revised EFC Memo. Therefore, IFD, MeitY recommends the continuation of the ongoing scheme viz. Promotion of Digital Payment Scheme
beyond March, 2023.

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