The Government of India received a loan from World
Bank towards programme management and financial support for National
e-Governance Plan (NeGP), for an amount of US$ 150 million (about Rs
700 crore) during 2011-12. The loan is referred to as “India:
e-Delivery of Public Services Development Policy Loan” and is
envisaged to support NeGP’s countrywide plans of increasing online
services for citizens in their locality, to improve the quality of
basic governance in areas of concern to the common man.
With a view to facilitate preparation of project
proposals, DeitY has, vide its Office Memorandum no.
2(1)/05-EGD(Vol-IV)(Pt IV)(14147) dated 31st Oct 2012 circulated
detailed Implementation Guidelines. These Guidelines, inter-alia,
provide for a “Project Development Fund (PDF)” under which
proposals seeking funding assistance for formulation and development
of new projects have been sought.
The present Guidelines have been formulated to
facilitate Ministries/Departments and States/UTs in formulation and
submission of proposals for accessing funding assistance under the
above referred PDF facility.
To provide assistance for project formulation and
project development to Ministries/Departments of Government of India
and the States/UTs and to ensure expediting electronic delivery of
services, a corpus fund titled ‘Project Development Fund (PDF)”
for World Bank assisted “India: e-Delivery of Public Services DPL
Project”, with an initial contribution of Rs. 20 crore is being set
up. This amount would be available from Department of Electronics &
Information Technology (DeitY’s) budgetary allocation available for
2012-2013 under externally-aided project and would be administered by
the National e-Governance Division (NeGD) under DeitY.
Project Development Fund aims to provide financial
assistance to the Centre/State/UTs for formulation and
conceptualization of New & Innovative Initiatives.
