Misuse Of Government's Servers To Attack Network Of Other Countries

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF  COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO-2710

ANSWERED ON-16.12.2011

(a) whether it is a fact that foreign entities are using Government''s servers to attack networks of other countries;

(b) if so, the details thereof;

(c) the details of agencies responsible for safeguarding the country''s IT infrastructure; and

(d) the action taken/being taken by Government against such agencies?

ANSWER

THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI MILIND DEORA)

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Shifted from Fixed Fee to Revenue Sharing Model

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF  COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

QUESTION NO  2059

ANSWERED ON  19.08.2011

Will the Minister of COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY be pleased to satate :-


(a) the details of guidelines which have enabled telecom operators to migrate from commitments on licence fees to a revenue sharing model;

(b) whether the decision for adoption of the revenue sharing model for telecom operators was justifiable; and

(c) the details of revenue loss caused to Government exchequer by shifting from fixed fee to revenue sharing fee?
   

ANSWER

     
THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ( SHRI MILIND DEORA)

(a) & (b) Sir, the Migration Package to licensees of Cellular (Metros and Telecom Circles) and Basic Telecom Services for migration to New Telecom Policy-1999 regime was offered based on the decision of the Union Cabinet. The Licensees were required to accept all the conditions of migration package in its entirety and simultaneously to withdraw all legal proceedings against Department of Telecom (DoT) or Union of India (Uol). The migration package also provided that the licensee will forego the right of operating in the regime of limited number of operators and would operate in a multipoly licensing regime. A copy of letter of letter of migration package as offered to Cellular Mobile Telephone Service (CMTS) operators is given in as Annexure-I.

(c ) Any loss of revenue would have to be seen in a complete context. However, the impact on Licence Fee collection due to migration offered. vide NTP-99 in respect of CMTS as well as Basic Service Providers existing at that time is given in Annexure-II.  

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Loss Due To Software Piracy

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF  COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

QUESTION NO  1441

ANSWERED ON  12.08.2011

Will the Minister of COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY be pleased to satate :-
(a) whether it is a fact that software piracy rate is on rise in the country;
(b) if so, the details thereof;
(c) whether it is a fact that Government has lost about $ 866 million in taxes due to software piracy in the year 2009 alone; and
(d) if so, the steps taken/being taken by Government in this regard?
   

ANSWER

     
MINISTER OF STATE FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
(SHRI SACHIN PILOT)
(a): There is no official estimate available to ascertain the extent of software piracy in the country.
(b): Does not arise.
(c): Many of the software packages used in India are being imported. Software is exempted from basic custom duty. There is no explicit data available on financial losses arising out of software piracy.
(d): The steps taken by the government to curb software piracy include the following :
(i) Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) for software in the country is covered under Copyright Act, 1957 as amended and violations attract penal action under Section 63 of the Copyright Act.
(ii) Government has set up a Copyright Enforcement Advisory Council under Ministry of Human Resource Development (the nodal Administrative Ministry), which reviews the progress of enforcement of Copyright Act and also advises on measures – both on the policy & implementation front for its better enforcement. Special Cells for monitoring the enforcement of copyright have been set at Police Headquarters in the States / UTs.
(iii) Instructions have been issued to various Government departments to use legal copies of software.
(iv) Zero custom duty on application software has contributed in reducing costs.
(v) Government is promoting Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) in e-governance applications in the country. A National Resource Centre for Free and Open Source Software (NRCFOSS) has been set up to carry out Research & Development, Human Resource Development, FOSS deployment, Support and Awareness in the country. NRCFOSS has brought out an indigenous GNU / Linux based operating system named as Bharat Operating System Solutions (BOSS) with Indian languages support.

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