Facts- Pointers

Infra Development in India in last 8 years

 World’s tallest rail pier bridge constructed in Manipur

 100% railway line electrification of 4 railway zones, Eastern coast, West central,
Eastern railways, Southern eastern railways.
 Investing in Growth of Roads and Highways: 4.5x increase in Capex Expenditure
between 2014-15 and 2021-22. (Rs 46,993 Cr in 2014-15 to Rs 2,18,454 Cr in
2021-22)
 250% increase in annual average capital expenditure on Roads and Highways.
(Rs 37,719 Cr in 2010-14) increased to (Rs 1,31,839 Cr in 21-22)
o Atal Tunnel (Project Initiated in 2002 -> inaugurated in 2020)
o Kosi Rail Bridge (Project Initiated in 2003 -> inaugurated in 2020)
o Eastern & Western Peripheral Expressway. Projected in 2003 ->
inaugurated in 2018.
 North-Eastern
o National Sports University at Manipur.
o Enabling waterway connectivity of NE-Regions with ports at Kolkata.
o NW-2 on river Brahmaputra.
o NW- 16 on river Barak
o AIIMS being set up at Guwahati.
o Sikkim became first state to become fully organic state in the world.
o PM DevINE (PM Development Initiative for NE Region): Rs 1500 Cr
allocated for infra and social development projects.
 J&K (Link)
o Before 2019, Srinagar- Jammu National highway used to take somewhere
between 24 to 72 hrs. Currently it takes less than 12 hours
o Education - Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jammu and Indian Institute
of Management (IIM) Jammu have been made functional.  The number of
Govt. Degree Colleges/Engineering Colleges has increased from 96 to
147.
o Health -2 New AIIMS, 7 New Medical Colleges, 2 State Cancer Institutes
and 15 Nursing Colleges have been taken up/operationalised recently.
Intake Capacity of 854 seats was added which includes 600 MBBS, 50 PG
Courses, 26 BDS, 38 MDS, and 140 DNB. 
 Making India hub of world class infra. Examples??
 Taking the road to success. 12 Km/day in 2013-14 to 37Km/day in 2020-21.
 Bharatmala. 550 districts to be connected by 4+ lane highways. Building India
from current 6 corridors to 50 Corridors. Developing 65,000Km of NH network.
 o Delhi-Mumbai Expressway-India longest expressway -1382 km long.
 UDAN:- 415 routes, 67airports, operationalized.
 6000+ Railway stations equipped with free Wi-Fi services.
 960+solarized railway stations.
 2 Dedicated Freight Corridors (DFC) for faster movement of Goods trains
 Huge leap in Cargo Handling at major port. (871 MTPA (Metric Tone per Annum)
in 2014-15 to 1560 MTPA in 2020-21.
 Cargo Movement on Ganga River increased from 9 million MT to 29 million MT.
 SAGARMALA: Port-led development. 194 projects completed. Building 3500+
MMTPA port capacity by 2025.
o 6 new port locations identified.
o 112 port capacity expansion projects identified.
o Adding 780 MTPA capacity to major ports in 20 years.
 10 Lakh+ Electric vehicles.
 1700+ public charging station.
 BharatNet: 5.7 Lakh Km of optical fibre connection laid.
o 1.7 Lakh GP connected and have access to broadband connected.
o Making India’s 2nd largest nation of Internet users.
 PLI-Telecom
o Provisional data as on 31-12-2022 : 
o Investment: Rs.1064.00 Cr
o Sales: Rs.11771.00 Cr
o Employment Generated: 10896
o Rs.1064.00 Cr
 Ayushman Bharat: PM Jan Arogya Yojana
o 3.28 crore people treated.
o 17.9 crore beneficiary e-cards
o Over 25,000 hospitals empaneled.
 More than 1.18 lakh Ayushman Bharat Health-wellness Centres made
operational.
 National Medical Colleges: 387 Medical colleges in 2013-14 have increased to
596 colleges in 2021-22
 Total Medical Undergraduate seats have increased from 51,000+ in 2013-14 to
almost 90,000 in 2021-22
 6 AIIMS operationalized since 2014.
 PM Garib Kalyan Package
o 5Kg free ration/person/month in addition to NFSA quota during Covid.
o 1000+ LMT of foodgrains worth Rs 3.4 lakh Cr allocated.
o Insurance cover upto Rs 50 Lakh per health worker fighting Covid.
 20% decline in MMR (Maternal Mortality Rate) between 2014 to 2019
 13% decline in Infant Mortality Rate between 2015-16 to 2019-21
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Digital Development –
Digital India
 MEITY has laid out a 1000-day plan to make India a trillion-dollar digital economy
to align with the ambitious vision of Hon’ble PM, of making India a 1 trillion Dollar
digital economy in the coming years, and robust Digital Infrastructure will play a
crucial role in achieving this goal.
 Creation of India Stack has been in the forefront of the Digital India programme –
with government providing digital public stacks and enabling startups to come up
with solutions. Aadhar and UPI have been pioneers in this space and OCEN,
ONDC and Digital Health ID will be the game changers now.
 As per the Network Readiness Index Report of 2022, India is globally ranked
61st overall, ranked 1st in AI talent concentration and is among the world leaders
in International Internet bandwidth, Mobile broadband internet traffic within the
country, ICT services exports, FTTH/building Internet subscriptions and
Investment in emerging technologies.
 Ever since the launch of Digital India programme in 2015, India has also come a
long way in the Global Innovation Index (GII) from the 81st spot in 2015 to the
40th spot in 2022.

Startup India
 India has the 3rd largest startup ecosystem globally with over 90,565 DPIIT-
recognized startups and 108 unicorns.
 India is largest in numbers of startups being added every hour i.e., 4 startups/per
hour. Startups have led to the creation of more than 7 lakh jobs in last 6 years
across the country, with 45% of them having a base in tier 2 and 3 cities.
 India has around 400 incubators and is planning to increase the number to 1000
in the coming years to help more startups coming from Tier 2 & Tier 3 cities.
 A nodal entity called ‘MEITY Start-up Hub' (MSH) has been setup, in order to,
facilitate MEITY’s vision of promoting technology innovation, start-ups and
creation of Intellectual Properties
o MSH acts as a national coordination, facilitation and monitoring centre
integrating all tech startups and innovation related activities of MeitY
o MSH with an aggregation of close to 3000 startups, 400 plus incubators
and 400 mentors has gradually emerged as a fully functional tech-agnostic
pan India entity
o MSH connects all 51 MEITY TIDE 2.0 Centers, close to 30 Centers of
Excellences, SAMRIDH Scheme for Accelerators, Theme based
Incubation Centres, investors, service providers, academia, corporates
with each other and most critically to startups
 Digital India GENESIS (Gen-Next Support for Innovative Startups) a national
Deep-tech Startup Platform with an outlay of 750+ crores
  Ministry of Railways recently launched “Startups for Railways” initiative. As part
of this initiative, Indian Railways Innovation Portal h as also gone live. As of
now, it has already seen a total of 788 registrations with 205 of them being
startups, and the rest being individual innovators, MSMEs, NGOs etc.
 India Post Payments Bank (IPPB), under Department of Posts (DoP) launched
‘Fincluvation’– a joint initiative to collaborate with Fintech Startup community to
co-create and innovate solutions for financial inclusion.

Government Initiatives on Emerging technologies

 The foundation of India 2.0 will be laid on Emerging Technologies like Web3.0,
Metaverse, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud technologies, among others
and Data will be the fuel of the new economy
 Web3.0 is completely redefining the architecture of the current Web, which is
more decentralized.
Initiatives by MeitY in Emerging Technologies
 Artificial Intelligence Committees Reports - MeitY constituted four committees
who have already submitted their reports.
 Centers of Excellence for Internet of Things
 Cyber Surakshit Bharat (CSB) programme has been initiated by MeitY in
public-private partnership with an objective to educate & enable Chief Information
Security Officers (CISOs) & broader senior IT officials in Central/State
Governments, Banks, PSUs and Government organizations across the country
Under the Digital India initiatives, MeitY along with NASSCOM and State Govts has set
up Centres of Excellence on Internet of Things at Bengaluru, Gurugram and Gandhi
Nagar.
 Center of Excellence for Virtual and Augmented Reality (VARCoE) at IIT,
Bhubaneshwar
 National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS) -
Implemented through 25 Technology Innovation Hubs (TIHs) established in top
academic, and National R&D Institutes by Department of Science & Technology.
 RAISE 2020 – National AI summit conducted in 2020.

Blockchain -
  MeitY has supported a multi-institutional project titled “Distributed Centre of
Excellence in Blockchain Technology”.
o Have carried out research on the use of Blockchain technology in property
registration, Cloud Security Assurance, Central Know Your Customers
(CKYC) and trade finance.
 NIC along with NICSI has established a Centre of Excellence (CoE) in
Blockchain technology.
 e-RUPI (Digital Currency) – a blockchain-backed India’s Central Bank Digital
Currency (CBDC) will give a big boost to digital economy.
 NITI Aayog is working on various Blockchain use cases.
o NITI Aayog in collaboration with Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers &
Chemicals Limited (GNFC) has developed a Blockchain based system for
fertilizer subsidy.
 Launch of National Strategy Paper on Blockchain.
Drones -
 Creating a single window platform called Digital sky to regulate, track and govern
drone based operations in India.
 Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) came up with policies to help regulate the use of
drones in the national airspace.
 PLI, PMP, PPO scheme for promoting drone and its component manufacturing in
India.
Artificial Intelligence -
 Launch of National Strategy Paper on AI.
 National Language Translation Mission

Economy
 GeM, an indigenously-built e-commerce portal, is a DigitalGovernment-to-
Business (G2B) platform to streamline the public procurement. 5.6 million
products, valuing at Rs 2.5 lakh crore, procured from 4.3 million sellers helped in
achieving a cumulative savings of $1 billion.
 Direct Benefit Transfer has transferred Rs 22 lakh crore in almost 783 crore
transactions, which aided 313 schemes from 53 ministries
 SRIJAN – a defence procurement portal, with the aim to make India the largest
exporter of defence equipment instead of the largest importer. 556 licenses were
issues to Indian companies for manufacturing defence items.
 Emergency Credit Line Guarantee system, launched in 2020, to safeguard the
MSMEs against pandemic. Almost Rs 4.5 lakh crore emergency loans were
given to the 13.5 lakh MSMEs accounts
 Major labour reforms introduced with 29 labour laws amalgamated into 4 labour
codes
 India becomes an investment-friendly destination, with the FDI inflow increasing
to $83 billion and the creation of Invest India portal as a one stop solution for
foreign investments.
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