DIGITAL INDIA

A mission to transform India into a digitally empowered

society and knowledge economy

What is Digital India?

� Digital India is a Mission to prepare India for a knowledge future.

� The focus is on being transformative – to realize IT + IT = IT

� The focus is on making technology central to enabling change.

� It is an Umbrella Mission – covering many departments.

� It weaves together a large number of ideas and thoughts into a single, comprehensive vision so that each of them is seen as part of a larger goal.

� Each individual element stands on its own. But is also part of the larger picture.

� It is coordinated by DeitY, implemented by the entire government.

� The weaving together makes the Mission transformative in totality

� The Mission:

� Pulls together many existing schemes.

� These schemes will be restructured and re-focused.

� They will be implemented in a synchronized manner.

� Many elements are only process improvements with minimal cost.

� The common branding of programmes as Digital India highlights their transformative impact.

Vision of Digital India

Digital Infrastructure as a utility to every citizen

Governance and Services on Demand

Digital Empowerment of citizens

High speed internet as a core utility

Cradle to grave digital identity -unique, lifelong, online, authenticable

Mobile phone & Bank account enabling participation in digital & financial space

Easy access to a Common Service Centre

Shareable private space on a public cloud

Safe and secure Cyber-space

Vision Area 1: Digital Infrastructure as a Utility to Every Citizen

Seamlessly integrated across departments or

jurisdictions

Services available in real time from online

&mobile platform

All citizen entitlements to be available on the

cloud

Services digitally transformed for

improving ease of doing business

Making financial transactions electronic

& cashless

Leveraging GIS for decision support

systems & development

Vision Area 2: Governance & Services On Demand

Universal Digital Literacy

Universally accessible digital resources

All documents/ certificates to be available on cloud (citizen not required to provide the same)

Availability of digital resources / services in Indian languages

Collaborative digital platforms for participative governance

Portability of all entitlements through cloud

Vision Area 3: Digital Empowerment of Citizens

Nine Pillars of Digital India

JAM Trinity

• A massive program of Financial Inclusion

• 170 million accounts openedJan-Dhan

• Digital-online ID Infrastructure

• More than 900 million IDs issuedAadhaar

• Tool to access internet and service delivery

• More than a billion mobile phones in IndiaMobile

Digital Identity Infrastructure: Context

Provision of a robust, reusable ID to those who do not have any

formal ID document

To clean up existing

databases from ghosts

and duplicates

Improve Targeting

and Delivery of Services

Reduce cost of Delivery of Services

Aadhaar – 910M Issued in 5 Years

910M

600M

300M

100M

50M

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Features of Aadhaar

Only Numbers – No Smart Cards

Random Numbers – No Intelligence, No Profiling

Voluntary in nature

All Residents – Including Children

Uniqueness – Ensured through biometric attributes

No Guarantees to Citizenship, Rights, Entitlements

Ensuring Security and Privacy of Information

Ubiquitous Authentication – From No ID to Online ID

• Sustainable, Inclusive, Speedy, Cost-effective

• Distributed Enrolments but Centralized processing and allocation

Jan-Dhan

• Open Standard-based, Open Source, Scalable

• Inter-operability and vendor-neutrality

• Unique, Online, Authenticable, portable

• Works as a basis for large number of applications

• Digital Authentication being done at scale

• Largest biometric ID System in the World (920 million and counting@ 1 million per day)

Aadhaar: Implementation Highlights

• Uniqueness and Existence ensures no fakes or duplicates

• KYC for multiple services : Bank accounts, Financial inclusions, Mobile Connections, Social Assistance Programs

• Entitlements should reach the intended beneficiary –non-transferability can be ensured by authentication at the point of service delivery

• Many domains will be able to use as a proof of presence for the beneficiary

• Identity platform for various domains

• Aadhaar online authentication provides a common platform which can be used across all applications.

Service Delivery Potential of Aadhaar

Uniqueness and Invariance Property

• Govt. : Personnel, Treasury, Govt.

Salaries and Pensions

• Regulatory: Registration, Driving

Licenses, Prisons

• Beneficiary Management: NSAP,

MNREGA, Scholarships, Relief,

Agriculture, AH, IAY, Health,

Insurance, Employment, Training,

Mid-day meals, Immunization

• False Inclusion challenges can be

addressed

Being used in Bank Account opening and operating

Ensuring service delivery to the right person: PDS

Inter-operable, portable anytime anywhere

Very light deployment of devices as ID auth technology is taken care of by UIDAI

Authentication Service

Aadhaar : Platform for Financial Inclusion

• Open Bank Accounts using Aadhaar

• Linking of Aadhaar to existing bank accounts

Access (e-KYC)

• Aadhaar Payment Bridge (APB)

• Simplifies disbursal of funds – uses only one account for all disbursals

Address (APB)

• Aadhaar Enabled Payments System (AEPS)

• Inter-operable, portable anytime anywhere

Transactions (AEPS)

A direct pipe to the resident!

Aadhaar Enabled DBT

The India Stack: End to end Digital

IDENTITY LAYER

PAYMENTS LAYER

TRANSACTIONS LAYER GSTn

NPCI: IMPS and UPI

Aadhaar

All B2B business of India entities to

flow through this fabric every month

Game changing electronic payment

systems and transition to cashless

economy

A unique digital biometric identity

with open access of nearly a Billion

users

LAYER WHAT IT IS WHO DELIVERS

CONSENT LAYER RBI project built on MIT

Open Personal Data Store

concept

Provides a modern privacy data

sharing framework

PAPERLESS LAYERDEITY: E-sign, Digi-Locker

and eKYC

Rapidly growing base of paperless

systems with billions of artifacts