As per the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Digital Public Infrastructures (DPI) has been developed across various domains, aimed at enhancing accessibility, efficiency, and inclusivity. The progress made in few of such DPIs include:
- Aadhaar- Aadhaar is the world’s largest digital identity programme that provides biometric and demographic-based unique digital identity, which can be authenticated anytime, from anywhere and eliminates duplicate and fake identities. Around 1.38 billion Aadhaar numbers have been generated till date.
- Unified payment interface (UPI)- It is India’s leading digital payment platform. More than 13.88 billion financial transactions were done through UPI in June 2024. By making digital payment platform technology and device agnostic, UPI has contributed to financial inclusion up to the grass root level.
- DigiLocker- It is a platform for issuance and verification of documents and certificates digitally. It has facilitated more than 0.3 billion users and made available 6.75 billion issued documents. Several fintech companies, working in the banking and financial sector, are using DigiLocker for easy on boarding of users.
The government has also taken several measures to enhance the reach of Indian DPI at the national and international levels. Some of the key initiatives include, India stack global, which has been developed and rolled out with the aim to share the success of Indian DPIs with the global community and to facilitate replication in friendly countries. In addition, global DPI repository (GDPIR) portal was designed, developed and rolled out by India under Indian Presidency of G20 in 2023.
In addition, India has signed memoranda of understanding (MoUs) on cooperation in the field of sharing successful digital solutions implemented at population scale with ten countries namely Armenia, Sierra Leone, Suriname, Antigua and Barbuda, Papua New Guinea, Trinidad and Tobago, Tanzania, Kenya, Cuba, and Colombia.
