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DIGITAL INDIA
Digital India is the umbrella term used to describe India’s emergence as one the recent country to join the elite group digital societies of the world.
DIGITAL INDIA VISION
The Digital India programme is centred on three key vision areas:
- Digital Infrastructure as a Core Utility to Every Citizen
- Governance and Services on Demand
- Digital Empowerment of Citizens
NINE PILLARS
Digital India aims to provide the much needed thrust to the nine pillars of growth areas listed below. Each of these areas is a complex programme in itself and cuts across multiple Ministries and Departments.
- Broadband Highways
- Universal Access To Mobile Connectivity
- Public Internet Access Programme
- E-Governance – Reforming Government Through Technology
- E-Kranti - Electronic Delivery Of Service
- Information For All
- Electronics Manufacturing-
- IT For Jobs
- Early Harvest Programmes
The India Stack Layers
IndiaStack essentially consists of 4 technology stacks or layers presence-less layer, paperless layer, cashless layer and consent layer. Each layer has specific objectives and goals which they fulfill through strong technology solutions, as follows:
Presence-less Layer
The presence-less layer is built to ensure that individuals are able to provide verified identities at any time and place to anyone upon consent. This led to the creation of UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) and the development of Aadhaar, the national identity project, where every citizen of the country can obtain a unique, permanent, digital ID (which is essentially a twelve digit number). Aadhaar also captures individual biometric details, for the purpose of authentication. This unique ID provides people the opportunity to easily provide identity proof, without the need to carry additional documentation. In fact, in theory, people need not even carry the Aadhaar card, all they need to do is to remember the 12 digit number and the authenticity of the person can be verified with a simple fingerprint scan. However implementation of such hardware has just begun and people carry a physical copy of the Aadhaar ID for instances where they are required to show ID proof. This presence-less layer through Aadhaar forms the foundation layer on which the other 3 layers rest.
Paperless Layer
The fundamental nature of IndiaStack is to power solutions that can easily store and retrieve information and documentation digitally. This could be best achieved through a paperless layer. The paperless layer constitutes of 3 solutions - Aadhaar eKYC, E-Sign and Digital Locker.
Aadhaar eKYC
provides easy access to information (name, DOB, address and gender) through the Aadhaar identification system for verification processes at any time and place and on any device.
E-Sign
is a process that allows individuals, enterprises and government bodies to easily and securely sign documents digitally.
Digital Locker.
Digital Locker is a solution that enables secure digital storage of documents for people to store, retrieve and share digital documents. These three solutions together powers a paperless ecosystem that verifies, authenticates and stores information and documentation digitally.
Cashless Layer
To really move things into the digital age, payments and financial transactions need to go cashless. Going cashless, increases transparency and ease of use. The cashless layer as part of IndiaStack primarily includes UPI in addition to AEPS & APS. UPI stands for Unified Payment Interface and is a powerful solution that allows people to transfer money from any bank account to any other bank account (individuals or merchants) digitally, securely and instantly by simply creating a VPA (Virtual Payment Address) without going through circuitous steps online or offline.
Consent Layer -
The electronic consent architecture enables user controlled data sharing, data flow and data retention. The consent layer is built to enable people to securely provide consent for the data flow between data providers like banks, hospitals and telcos to data requestors like banks, credit card providers etc. For instance, if a person wants to apply for a credit card, he can provide consent to the bank (where he has an account) to share relevant documentation to the credit card company to verify his credit worthiness for the issuance of a credit card.
India Data Protection Framework
Indian Data Protection Framework, which aims to design data privacy standards for all intermediaries or companies that process, store and share data and empower individuals around use of their data.
eKYC
eKYC is a one stop authentication process that authenticates a person based on his/her Aadhaar identification details and is a great way to speed up processes.
BHIM (Bharat Interface for Money) is a mobile payment App developed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), based on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI).
E-sign
E-sign allows for digitally signing documents, anytime, anywhere and on any device. It is governed by e-authentication guidelines and is a major step in reducing the amount of paper in circulation, thus ensuring significant cost savings as well as convenience.
DIGILOCKER
Digital Locker is the Government of India repository for documents. With E-sign and Digital Locker people can easily exchange, store and retrieve documents digitally as and when required, upon consent, without the need to physically print out documents. Digital India is built as the core stack on which enterprises, agencies and government bodies can build their own systems and solutions to optimise and secure processes and user experience.
e-Kranti :
National e-Governance Plan 2.0: The national level e-Governance programme called National e-Governance Plan was initiated in 2006. There were 31 Mission Mode Projects under National e-Governance Plan covering a wide range of domains, viz. agriculture, land
DIGITAL INDIA INFRASTRUCTURE
STATE WIDE AREA NETWORK
The Government had approved the Scheme for establishing State Wide Area Networks (SWANs) across the country, in March, 2005 to be expended by the Department under Grant-in-Aid of Rs. 2,005 crore, over a period of five years. Under this Scheme, technical and financial assistance are being provided to the States/UTs for establishing SWANs to connect all State/UT Headquarters up to the Block level via District/ sub-Divisional Headquarters, in a vertical hierarchical structure with a minimum bandwidth capacity of 2 Mbps per link.
SINGLE WINDOW INTERFACE FOR TRADE (SWIFT)
As part of the “Ease of Doing Business” initiatives, the Central Board of Excise and Customs, Government of India has taken up implementation of the Single Window Project to facilitate the Trading Across Borders in India. The 'India Customs Single Window' would allow importers and exporters, the facility to lodge their clearance documents online at a single point only. Required permissions, if any, from other regulatory agencies would be obtained online without the trader having to approach these agencies. The Single Window Interface for Trade (SWIFT), would reduce interface with Governmental agencies, dwell time and the cost of doing business.
RAPID ASSESSMENT SYSTEM
National e-Governance Division, a division of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, has developed a Rapid Assessment System (RAS) for continuous feedback for e-services delivered by Government of India and State Governments. This system has multiple channels for receiving feedback and is backed by analytics. These analytics will help integrated departments for continuous system improvement and better governance.
Website.http://ras.gov.in/
OPEN DATA (COMPLETED)
Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India - data.gov.in - is a platform for supporting Open Data initiative of Government of India. The portal is intended to be used by Government of India Ministries/ Departments their organizations to publish datasets, documents, services, tools and applications collected by them for public use. It intends to increase transparency in the functioning of Government and also open avenues for many more innovative uses of Government Data to give different perspective.
Website.https://data.gov.in/
NATIONAL SUPER COMPUTING MISSION (NSM)
National Super Computing Mission has been envisaged to empower the national academic and R&D institutions, spread across the country, by installing a vast supercomputing grid comprising of more than 70 high-performance computing facilities. These supercomputers will also be networked on the National Supercomputing grid over the National Knowledge Network (NKN).
Website.https://nsmindia.in
MOBILE SEVA APP STORE
A mobile applications store (m-AppStore) has been created to facilitate the process of development and deployment of suitable mobile applications for delivery of public services through mobile devices. The m-AppStore store is integrated with the MSDG and it shall use the MSDG infrastructure for deployment of such applications. The m-AppStore is based on service oriented architecture and cloud based technologies using open standards as far as practicable.
In the mobile space, DeitY has launched Mobile Seva, a revolutionary whole-of-government mobile governance initiative, enabling government departments and agencies across the nation to deliver public services to citizens and businesses through mobile devices across various mobile-based channels such as SMS, USSD, mobile apps, and voice/ IVRS.
MEGHRAJ (done)
In order to utilise and harness the benefits of Cloud Computing, Government of India has embarked upon an ambitious initiative - "GI Cloud" which has been named as 'MeghRaj'. The focus of this initiative is to accelerate delivery of e-services in the country while optimizing ICT spending of the Government. This will ensure optimum utilization of the infrastructure and speed up the development and deployment of eGov applications.
Website.https://cloud.gov.in/index.php
JEEVAN PRAMAAN
Jeevan Pramaan is a biometric enabled digital service for pensioners of Central Government, State Government or any other Government organization. The new service aims to streamline the process of issuing life certificate and make it a hassle-free experience for the pensioners. With this initiative the pensioner’s requirement to physically present him/her in front of the disbursing agency or the certification authority will become a thing of the past benefiting the pensioners in a huge way and cutting down on unnecessary logistical hurdles.
Website.https://jeevanpramaan.gov.in/
Jeevan Pramaan – Relief to the old aged whose physical presence was required for “proof of life”. The recently launched Jeevan Pramaan portal has bought a wave of relief to pensioners. Before the launch of this service, a pensioner could obtain a life certificate only by being physically present in front of the authorized pension disbursement agency or through physical presence at the office he/ she served prior to retirement. This posed to be a great challenge as it was time consuming and not always possible due to health constraints and pensioners getting relocated post retirement. This caused hindrance in having their rightful pensions credited to their accounts, causing them to suffer financially as most of them are dependent upon pensions to lead their life post retirement. Jeevan Pramaan addresses this issue by streamlining and digitalizing the entire process and eradicating the need for physical presence to obtain life certificates thus helping the senior citizens of the nation in their old age. Over 1.75 lakh pensioners have already enrolled under this scheme within six months and the numbers are ever increasing.
IRCTC CONNECT
In order to cater to the growing demand of passengers to make the ticketing application more user-friendly and faster, IRCTC Connect was developed. The new app with several add-on features is based on the next generation e-ticketing system. Synchronised with the ticketing website, the app facilitates search and book train tickets, check existing reservations or cancel them, and get upcoming journey alerts
IRCTC Rail Connect
Developed by IRCTC Official. It is a revamped version of the old Indian Railways. It now offers a minimalistic interface with simple steps via a swipe gesture, shuffle, select and book. Key features include special ladies ticket ladies ticket booking, Tatkal & Premium-Tatkal quota booking. It syncs with IRCTC's NGeT Web Site and NGeT Mobile App ticket so that users can view, cancel or file TDR of e-tickets booked through the official website. It also shows a live reservation table and also alerts the user of a change in boarding point with timely notification on the phone.
INTEGRATED HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM (IHIP)
An Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP) is being setup by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW). The primary objective of IHIP is to enable the creation of standards compliant Electronic Health Records (EHRs) of the citizens on a pan-India basis along with the integration and interoperability of the EHRs through a comprehensive Health Information Exchange (HIE) as part of this centralized accessible platform.
Website.https://www.nhp.gov.in/
HERITAGE CITY DEVELOPMENT AND AUGMENTATION YOJANA (HRIDAY)
The Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India, launched the National Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana (HRIDAY) scheme on 21st January, 2015, with a focus on holistic development of heritage cities. The scheme aims to preserve and revitalise soul of the heritage city to reflect the city’s unique character by encouraging aesthetically appealing, accessible, informative & secured environment.
Website.http://hridayindia.in/
GOVERNMENT eMARKETPLACE
Government e-Marketplace (GeM) is single window solution for online procurement of common use Goods & Services required by various Government Departments / Organizations / PSUs. GeM aims to enhance transparency, efficiency and speed in public procurement. It also provides the tools for direct purchase, e-bidding and reverse e-auction to facilitate the government users to achieve the best value for the money. The portal offers online registration facilities for all stakeholders namely Government Users, Product Sellers and Service Providers.
Website.https://gem.gov.in/
GARV GRAMEEN VIDYUTIKARAN MOBILE APP
The mobile application provides real-time updated data of ongoing electrification process to all users/stakeholders and provides information about Government schemes and electrification data. The app can also be used for sharing inspirational stories of differently-abled, who achieved success despite all odds.
Website.http://garv.ddugjy.in/
eTRADE
The Department of Commerce is pursuing the project eTRADE, the purpose of which is to facilitate foreign trade in India by way of promoting effective and efficient delivery of services by various regulatory / facilitating agencies involved in foreign trade so as to enable the trade to avail services from these agencies in online environment.
ESSO-INDIAN NATIONAL CENTER FOR OCEAN INFORMATION SERVICES
ESSO-INCOIS was established as an autonomous body in 1999 under the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) and is a unit of the Earth System Science Organization (ESSO). ESSO- INCOIS is mandated to provide the best possible ocean information and advisory services to society, industry, government agencies and the scientific community through sustained ocean observations and constant improvements through systematic and focussed research.
eSIGN
eSign is an online electronic signature service which can be integrated with service delivery applications via an open API to facilitate an Aadhaar holder to digitally sign a document. Using authentication of the Aadhaar holder through Aadhaar e-KYC service, online electronic signature service is facilitated
Website.http://cca.gov.in/
ELECTRONIC DEVELOPMENT FUND (EDF)
As part of the ‘Digital India’ agenda of the Government, and to develop the Electronics System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) sector in order to achieve ‘Net Zero Imports’ by 2020 and to look at India as their next destination to cater to the domestic Indian demand as well as act as an exports hub in the ESDM sector. It is with this objective that an Electronic Development Fund (EDF) is set up as a "Fund of Funds" to participate in professionally managed "Daughter Funds" which in turn will provide risk capital to companies developing new technologies in the area of electronics, nano-electronics and Information Technology (IT).
eBASTA
In line with the Government's Digital India initiative, this project has created a framework to make school books accessible in digital form as e-books to be read and used on tablets and laptops. The main idea is to bring various publishers (free as well as commercial) and schools together on one platform. In addition to the portal, a back-end framework to facilitate the organization and easy management of such resources has been developed, along with the web-based applications that can be installed on tablets for navigating the framework.
Website.https://www.ebasta.in
DIRECT BENEFIT TRANSFER (DBT)
DBT was initiated with the aim to reform Government delivery system by re-engineering the existing process in welfare schemes for simpler and faster flow of information/funds and to ensure accurate targeting of the beneficiaries, de-duplication and reduction of fraud. DBT will bring efficiency, effectiveness, transparency and accountability in the Government system and infuse confidence of citizen in the governance. Use of modern technology and IT tools will realize the dream of MAXIMUM GOVERNANCE MINIMUM GOVERNMENT.
Website.https://dbtbharat.gov.in
DIGITIZE INDIA
Digitize India Platform (DIP) is an initiative of the Government of India under the Digital India Programme to provide digitization services for scanned document images or physical documents for any organization. The aim is to digitize and make usable all the existing content in different formats and media, languages, digitize and create data extracts for document management, IT applications and records management.
Website.https://digitizeindia.gov.in/
DIGITAL SAKSHARTA ABHIYAAN (DISHA)
The Digital Saksharta Abhiyan or National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM) Scheme has been formulated to impart IT training to 52.5 lakh persons, including Anganwadi, ASHA workers and authorised ration dealers in all the States/UTs across the country. The initiative aims at training non-IT literate citizens to become IT literate to enable their active and effective participation in the democratic, developmental process, and enhance their livelihood too.
Website.http://www.ndlm.in/
DIGISEVAK- VOLUNTEER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (VMS)
DigiSevak is an online volunteering platform for interested citizens who want to contribute to the success of Digital India program. Various government department and agencies can create volunteering tasks and volunteers can choose tasks based on their skills and interest areas. The platform provides means for end-to-end execution of a volunteering task, right from registration of volunteers to creation of tasks, evaluation of tasks and rewards & recognition of contribution by volunteers.
Website.http://digisevak.gov.in/
DIGILOCKER
DigiLocker is the Indian Government’s flagship program aimed at transforming India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. DigiLocker ties into Digital India’s visions areas of providing citizens a shareable private space on a public cloud and making all documents/certificates available on this cloud. Targeted at the idea of paperless governance, DigiLocker is a platform for issuance and verification of documents & certificates in a digital way, thus eliminating the use of physical documents.
Website.https://digilocker.gov.in
DEEN DAYAL UPADHYAYA GRAM JYOTI YOJANA
One of the flagship programmes of the Power Ministry (MoP), Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) is designed to provide continuous power supply to the entire rural India. With this scheme, the government had decided to electrify 18,452 unelectrified villages within 1000 days, by May 1, 2018. The DDUGJY can benefit rural households significantly as electricity is extremely vital for growth and development of the country.
Website.http://www.ddugjy.in
CYBER SWACHHTA KENDRA
Cyber Swachhta Kendra (Botnet Cleaning and Malware Analysis Centre) is a part of the Government of India's Digital India initiative to create a secure cyber space by detecting botnet infections in India and to notify, enable cleaning and securing systems of end users so as to prevent further infections. It is set up in accordance with the objectives of the ‘National Cyber Security Policy’, which envisages creating a secure cyber ecosystem in the country. This centre operates in close coordination and collaboration with Internet Service Providers and Product/Antivirus companies.
CSC 2.0
CSC 2.0 aims to establish a self sustaining network of 2.5 lakh CSC centres at Gram Panchayat (GP) level under Digital India and deliver various citizen centric services. It is envisaged as transaction-based and service delivery-based model, delivering a large bouquet of e-services through a single delivery platform, which would increase the sustainability of the CSCs across the Country. The project proposes to strengthen the CSC network by ensuring standardization of service availability and ensuring capacity building of all stakeholders involved.
Website.https://csc.gov.in
CERT-IN
CERT-In was formed with an aim to secure Indian cyber space. CERT-In provides Incident Prevention and Response services as well as Security Quality Management Services. CERT-In has been designated under Section 70B of Information Technology (Amendment) Act 2008 to serve as the national agency to perform the following functions in the area of cyber security:
• Collection, analysis and dissemination of information on cyber incidents
• Forecast and alerts of cyber security incidents
• Emergency measures for handling cyber security incidents
• Coordination of cyber incident response activities
• Issue guidelines, advisories, vulnerability notes and whitepapers relating to information security practices, procedures, prevention, response and reporting of cyber incidents
Website.http://www.cert-in.org.in
CENTRE FOR EXCELLENCE FOR INTERNET OF THINGS (COE-IT)
The Centre of Excellence for IoT was announced as a part of the Digital India Initiative to jump start the IOT ecosystem taking advantage of India's IT strengths and help the country attain a leadership role in the convergent area of hardware and software. The main objective of the center is to create innovative applications and domain capability. Additionally, the center will help build industry capable talent, start-up community and an entrepreneurial ecosystem for IOT.
Website.http://www.coe-iot.in
BHARAT BROADBAND NETWORK (BBNL)
Bharat Broadband Network Limited is a special purpose vehicle set up under Companies Act by Government of India with an authorized capital of Rs. 1000 Cr. It has been mandated to create the National Optical Fiber Network (NOFN) in India. A total of around 2,50,000 Gram Panchayats spread over 6,600 Blocks and 641 Districts are to be covered by laying incremental fiber.
AADHAAR
Aadhaar identity platform is one of the key pillars of ‘Digital India’, wherein every resident of the country is provided with a unique identity or Aadhaar number. The largest biometrics based identification system in the world, Aadhaar is a strategic policy tool for social and financial inclusion, public sector delivery reforms, managing fiscal budgets, increase convenience and promote hassle-free people-centric governance. It is unique and robust enough to eliminate duplicate or fake identities and may be used as a basis/primary identifier to roll out several Government welfare schemes and programmes for effective service delivery thereby promoting transparency and good governance.
DIGITAL INDIA SERVICES
ACCESSIBLE INDIA CAMPAIGN MOBILE APP
Sugamya Bharat Abhiyaan or Accessible India Campaign is a nation-wide flagship campaign for achieving universal accessibility that enables people with disabilities to gain access for equal opportunity, live independently and participate fully in all aspects of life in an inclusive society
The campaign targets at enhancing the accessibility of built environment, transport system and Information and communication ecosystem. The mobile application is a crowdsourcing platform to comprehensively obtain information on inaccessible places across the country. The mobile application is available on IOS, Android and Windows platform and can be downloaded from the respective App Stores.
Twitter: @MSJE_AIC
Incredible India
Incredible India Developed by the Ministry of Tourism, Government of India, it is a tailor-made app for both local and foreign tourists. It shows popular holistic destination, revolving around major experiences such as spirituality, heritage, adventure, culture, yoga, wellness and more. The mobile app has been designed keeping in mind the preferences of the modern traveler. It offers in-depth information of the tourist place including government-authorized tour operators, hotels, and facility details, when's the good time to visit a particular place, also important dates of the festival, so that the tourists can participate with locals, native culinary delights to eat and more.
2. Aadhaar: Resident biometric ID
Aadhaar is the national resident identity platform developed by Government of India. It has four important functions (1) enrolling Indian residents, (2) providing them a unique 12 digit Aadhaar number (3) helping institutions- both government and others to authenticate residents when they approach for service with Aadhaar number and (4) share KYC information with service providers with resident consent.
The Aadhaar system is expected to transform the way government delivers its citizen services and business deals with challenge of "verifying " customer identification.
As of December, 2018, more than 1.3 billion people in India ( more than 95 % population) have Aadhaar - the resident biometric ID. Aadhaar number is a 12-digit random number issued by the UIDAI (“Authority”) to the residents of India after satisfying the verification process laid down by the Authority. Any individual, irrespective of age and gender, who is a resident of India, may voluntarily enrol to obtain Aadhaar number. Person willing to enrol has to provide minimal demographic and biometric information during the enrolment process which is totally free of cost. An individual needs to enrol for Aadhaar only once and after deduplication only one Aadhaar shall be generated, as the uniqueness is achieved through the process of demographic and biometric de-duplication.
Aadhaar number is verifiable online, in a cost-effective way. It is unique and robust enough to eliminate duplicates and fake identities and may be used as a basis/primary identifier to roll out several Government welfare schemes and programmes for effective service delivery thereby promoting transparency and good governance. This is the only program of its kind globally, wherein a state-of-the-art digital and online Id is being provided free of cost at such a large scale to people, and has the potential to change the way service delivery functions in the country.
Aadhaar number is devoid of any intelligence and does not profile people based on caste, religion, income, health and geography. The Aadhaar number is a proof of identity, however, it does not confer any right of citizenship or domicile in respect of an Aadhaar number holder.
Aadhaar is a strategic policy tool for social and financial inclusion, public sector delivery reforms, managing fiscal budgets, increase convenience and promote hassle-free people-centric governance. Aadhaar can be used as a permanent Financial Address and facilitates financial inclusion of the underprivileged and weaker sections of the society and is therefore a tool of distributive justice and equality. The Aadhaar identity platform is one of the key pillars of the ‘Digital India’, wherein every resident of the country is provided with a unique identity. The Aadhaar programme has already achieved several milestones and is by far the largest biometrics based identification system in the world.
Aadhaar identity platform with its inherent features of Uniqueness, Authentication, Financial Address and e-KYC, enables the Government of India to directly reach residents of the country in delivery of various subsidies, benefits and services by using the resident’s Aadhaar number only.
3. AGRIMARKET APP
The mobile application has been developed with an aim to keep farmers abreast with the crop prices and discourage them to carry-out distress sale. Farmers can get information related to prices of crops in markets within 50km of their own device location using the AgriMarket Mobile App
This app automatically captures the location of the farmers using mobile GPS and fetches the market prices of crops which fall within the range of 50km. The prices of agri commodities are sourced from the Agmarknet portal. Currently, the apps is available in English and Hindi languages.
Twitter: @AgriGoI
4.BETI BACHAO BETI PADHAO
The campaign aims at ensuring girls are born, nurtured and educated without discrimination to become empowered citizens of this country.
The Campaign interlinks National, State and District level interventions with community level action in 100 districts, bringing together different stakeholders for accelerated impact. The initiatives youtube channel show various videos related to the campaign.
5. BHIM (Bharat Interface for Money)
Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM) is an app that makes payment transactions simple, easy and quick using Unified Payments Iinterface (UPI).
It enables direct bank to bank payments instantly and collect money using a Mobile number or Payment address. Bharat Interface for Money app is currently available on Android and it is downloadable from Google Playstore, for smartphones.
5. CRIME AND CRIMINAL TRACKING NETWORK & SYSTEMS (CCTNS)
Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & Systems (CCTNS) is a plan scheme conceived in the light of experience of a non-plan scheme namely - Common Integrated Police Application (CIPA).
CCTNS aims at creating a comprehensive and integrated system for enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of policing through adopting of principle of e-Governance and creation of a nationwide networking infrastructure for evolution of IT-enabled-state-of-the-art tracking system around 'Investigation of crime and detection of criminals'.
6. CROP INSURANCE MOBILE APP
Crop Insurance mobile app can be used to calculate the Insurance Premium for notified crops based on area, coverage amount and loan amount in case of loanee farmer.
It can also be used to get details of normal sum insured, extended sum insured, premium details and subsidy information of any notified crop in any notified area.
7. DIGITAL AIIMS
The first step in the Digital AIIMS project was taken in January 2015 with the creation of an effective linkage between AIIMS, Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeiTY).
A unique health identification number for every patient visiting AIIMS was generated on an Aadhar platform. The Unique Health Identification Number gave every Patient visiting AIIMS a Digital Identity.
8. e-GRANTHALAYA
e-Granthalaya is an Integrated Library Management Software developed by National Informatics Centre,(NIC), Department of Electronics & Information Technology. The application is useful for automation of in-house activities of libraries and to provide various online member services. The software provides built-in Web OPAC interface to publish the library catalogue over Internet. The software is UNICODE Compliant, thus, supports data entry in local languages.
9. E-PANCHAYAT
e-Panchayat is an e-Governance initiative for the rural sector providing comprehensive software solution attempting automation of Gram Panchayat functions. It is a platform for panchayat representatives to connect with rest of the world, which aims to bring out the local voices by empowering the local communities to showcase and share local social, cultural and economic practices, stories and challenges.
9. Ebiz
eBiz is being implemented by Infosys Technologies Limited (Infosys) under the guidance and aegis of Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India. The focus of eBiz is to improve the business environment in the country by enabling fast and efficient access to Government-to-Business (G2B) services through an online portal.
This will help in reducing unnecessary delays in various regulatory processes required to start and run businesses.
10. ECI EVM TRACKING
It is a GPRS based mobile application for ECI Officials to scan barcode on EVM machines (BU or CU or VVPAT), which is used in Polls.
11, eDISTRICT
The e-District Mission Mode Project (MMP) is envisaged to strengthen the district administration of the state by providing ICT support to the participating departments and district administration in terms of providing centralized software application for selected category of citizen services and training for staff of the departments with a view to improve delivery of the citizen services being rendered by these departments. Services developed under e-District project would be delivered through various delivery channels like:
Direct access by Citizens through e-District portal as a registered user.
Existing Atal Jana Snehi Kendra's / B1 / K1 service centres.
Common Service Centres (To be established upto Grama Panchayat Level).
12. eGREETINGS
The eGreetings portal aims to promote a contemporary and eco-friendly method of sharing greetings by Government officials and agencies as well as citizens to colleagues and friends for National Holidays and other national occasions. The portal allows users to select and send greetings from multiple occasion-specific templates. Government Departments can also customize the greetings by adding tag-lines and messages related to their programmes and schemes. The observance of National and International days and disseminating informational messages and greetings related to such occasions will facilitate sharing and dissemination of educational and informational content to citizens.
12. eHOSPITAL
e-Hospital@NIC(link sends e-mail) is an open source health information management system ( HMIS) which is configurable and easily customizable with multi-tenancy support. It is designed to deploy in cloud infrastructure to manage multiple hospitals seamlessly. The generic application addresses all major functional areas of a hospital. A workflow based HL7 compliant and ISO/IEC 9126 certified end-to-end solution Software for hospital management which covers complete treatment cycle of OPD/IPD as well integrates clinical, administrative, and billing/ insurance activities.
13. eMSIPS
The electronic MSIPS (e-MSIPS) Application System enables online submission and scrutiny of applications submitted to the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) under the Modified Special Incentive Package Scheme (MSIPS) and Electronics Manufacturing Cluster (EMC) schemes. All registered users can submit their applications in the system, using the forms designed for the same. The system will enable online scrutiny of applications and online generation of responses to the applicant. The applicants can view the response in the system.
14. eNAM
National Agriculture Market (NAM) is a pan-India electronic trading portal which networks the existing APMC (Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee) mandis to create a unified national market for agricultural commodities. The NAM Portal provides a single window service for all APMC related information and services. This includes commodity arrivals and prices, buy and sell trade offers and provision to respond to trade offers, among other services. While material flow (agriculture produce) continues to happen through mandis, an online market reduces transaction costs and information asymmetry.
15. eOFFICE
The eOffice product aims to support governance by ushering in more effective and transparent inter and intra-government processes. The vision of e-Office is to achieve a simplified, responsive, effective and transparent working of all government offices. The Open Architecture on which eOffice has been built, makes it a reusable framework and a standard reusable product amenable to replication across the governments, at the central, state and dis trict levels. The product brings together the independent functions and systems under a single framework.
16. ePATHSHALA
About: Developed by NCERT, ePathshala for showcasing and disseminating all educational e-resources including textbooks, audio, video, periodicals and a variety of other print and non-print materials through website and mobile app. The platform addresses the dual challenge of reaching out to a diverse clientele and bridging the digital divide (geographical, socio-cultural and linguistic), offering comparable quality of e-contents. All the concerned stakeholders such as students, teachers, educators and parents can access e-books through multiple technology platforms i.e. mobile phones (android, iOS and Windows platforms), and tablets (as e-pub) and on web through laptops and desktops (as flipbooks).
Website.http://epathshala.nic.in/
17. EPFO WEB PORTAL & MOBILE APP
About: The web portal for Employees' Provident Funds Ordinance allows employees to check their EPF balance through an ePassbook which is an online version of their physical passbook. The mobile app allows the members to activate their UAN accounts from the comfort of their mobile phones and can also access their accounts for viewing their monthly credits through the passbook as well view their details available with EPFO. Similarly the EPF pensioners have been given the facility to access their pension disbursement details through this mobile app. Likewise, the employer can also view their remittance details.
Website.http://epfindia.gov.in/site_en/
18. ePRISON
About: The Scope of this project is to computerize and integrate all the activities related to prison and prisoner management in the jail. This application suite will provide the vital information About: the inmates, lodged in the prisons, in real time environment to the prison officials and other entities, involved in Criminal Justice System. It will also facilitate online visit request and grievance redressal. ePrisons application suite, developed by NIC, is cloud based product designed with easy to use GUI and embedded with a comprehensive security features. It can be easily adopted by any state prisons department with minimum customization efforts since all the possible customization features are parameterized and can be configured by the users.
19. ePROCUREMENT PORTAL (CPP)
About:The Central Public Procurement Portal of Government of India facilitates all the Central Government Organizations to publish their Tender Enquiries, Corrigendum and Award of Contract details. The primary objective of this portal is to provide a single point access to the information on procurements made across various central government organization.
20. eSAMPARK
e-Sampark is a mechanism to connect the government directly with citizens across India by running mailer, outbound dialing and SMS campaigns. The platform is used for sharing informational and public service messages. The concept of e-Sampark has been introduced to establish proactive communication by digitization of campaigns. The multi-faceted platform facilitates not only seamless communication between the government and citizens, but also maintains a database of contacts of the nodal officers, representatives and citizens. In addition, users can also view the previous campaigns conducted.
21. eTAAL
About: eTaal is a web portal for dissemination of e-Transactions statistics of National and State level e-Governance Projects including Mission Mode Projects. It receives transaction statistics from web based applications periodically on near real time basis. eTaal presents quick analysis of transaction counts in tabular and graphical form to give quick view of transactions done by various e-Governance projects.
22. eVISA
About: The Ministry of Tourism supported the initiative regarding the implementation of Tourist Visa on Arrival enabled with Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) (renamed as e-Tourist Visa) strongly and committed all support to Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of External Affairs and Ministry of Civil Aviation for implementing this programme. The e-Tourist Visa enables the prospective visitor to apply for an Indian Visa from his/her home country online without visiting the Indian Mission and also pay the visa fee online.
23. FARMER PORTAL
It is envisaged to make available relevant information and services to the farming community and private sector through the use of information and communication technologies, to supplement the existing delivery channels provided for by the department. Farmers’ Portal is an endeavour in this direction to create one stop shop for meeting all informational needs relating to Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries sectors production, sale/storage of an Indian farmer. With this Indian Farmer will not be required to sift through maze of websites created for specific purposes.
Website.http://farmer.gov.in/
24. FERTILISER MONITORING SYSTEM (FMS)
The FMS software monitors movement of various fertilizers at various stages in their value chain. The website provides information on fertilizer companies dealing with these fertilizers, the rate of concession on each fertilizer, its MRPs and product wise / state wise details of dispatch and receipts of fertilizers at different destinations across the country.
Website.http://www.urvarak.co.in/
25. GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS)
About:Geographic Information System (GIS Software) is designed to store, retrieve, manage, display and analyze different types of geographic and spatial data, which allows users to produce maps and other graphic displays of geographic information for analysis and presentation and thus serves as a valuable tool to visualize spatial data and/or to build decision support systems for further use in any organization or research bodies. GIS stores data in geographical features and their characteristics; these features are typically classified as points, lines or areas, or as raster images. GIS stores information using spatial indices that make it possible to identify the features located in any arbitrary region of a map.
Website.https://ncog.gov.in/
26. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA (GSI)
The Portal has been developed through the Online Core Business Integrated System Project (OCBIS). The objective behind the Portal is to provide a single window access to the information and services being provided by the GSI for the broad geoscientific community, citizens and other stakeholders. An attempt has been made through this Portal to provide comprehensive, accurate, reliable and single point source of information About: GSI, its activities, achievements, geoscientific information and its various facets.
Website.https://www.gsi.gov.in/
27. GOODS AND SERVICE TAX NETWORK (GSTN)
The GST System Project is a unique and complex IT initiative. It is unique as it seeks, for the first time to establish a uniform interface for the tax payer and a common and shared IT infrastructure between the Centre and States. The portal envisions becoming a trusted National Information Utility (NIU) which provides reliable, efficient and robust IT Backbone for the smooth functioning of the Goods & Services Tax regimen enabling economic agents to leverage the entire nation as One Market with minimal Indirect Tax compliance cost.
Website.http://www.gstn.org/index.php
28. HIMMAT APP
About: Himmat is an initiative by Delhi police especially for women. Himmat is an emergency service, comprised of an android emergency application, which can send a distress call or emergency message to Delhi Police officials and specified contact or group in an emergency situation faced by a woman. The Police personnel will get these SOS alerts and locations on a portal and as a sms on their mobile phones as well.
29. ICDS SYSTEMS STRENGTHENING AND NUTRITION IMPROVEMENT PROJECT (ISSNIP)
About:SSNIP is World Bank's International Development Association (IDA) assisted project, implemented by Ministry of Women Child Development in 162 high malnutrition burden districts in 8 States viz. Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. The objectives of the project is to support the Government of India and participating States to (i) strengthen the ICDS policy framework, systems and capacities, and facilitate community engagement, to ensure greater focus on children below three years of age; and (ii) strengthen convergent actions for improved nutrition outcomes.
30. KHOYA PAYA
About:The Khoya Paya portal is a citizen-based website to exchange information on missing and found children. It has been developed by the Ministry of Women and Child Development and the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY). The website is an enabling platform, where citizens can report missing children, as well as sightings of their whereAbout:s without wasting much time. The ‘Found’ children can also be reported on this web portal. The reporting can be done through text, photographs, videos and other means of transmitting and uploading information to the site.
Website.http://khoyapaya.gov.in/mpp/home
31. KISAN SUVIDHA
About:Kisan Suvidha is an omnibus mobile app developed to help farmers get relevant information instantly. The app provide information on various details such as weather, market prices, seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, agriculture machinery, dealers, agro advisories, plant protection and IPM practices etc. Other unique features like extreme weather alerts, market prices of commodity in nearest area and the maximum price in state as well as in India have been added to empower farmers in the best possible manner.
32. KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (KMS)
About: Digital India Program envisions to ‘Transform India into a Digitally Empowered Society and Knowledge Economy’. To spearhead this vision, Knowledge Management Portal has been created to establish a culture where knowledge is captured, shared, created and reused. It provides a platform to leverage the transformation of data to knowledge by systematically aligning with the organizational goals and strategy.
Website.https://kms.negd.in
33. LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (LMS)
Learning Management System (LMS) is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting and delivery of electronic courses (e-learning) and training programs. As a capacity building tool, LMS facilitates efficient administration of e-learning and training for various government officials both at centre and states/union territories. It has the objective of enhancing knowledge and skills of users as per their roles envisaged in the e-Governance Competency Framework (eGCF).
Website.https://lms.negd.in/
34. MADAD APP
About: Consular Services Management System (MADAD) has been setup for Indian Citizens to log and track Grievances pertaining to the Consular Services offered by the Indian Embassies (Missions/Posts) abroad. Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) with a view to provide mobile enablement of MADAD, has launched MADAD Mobile Application on Android, iOS, and Windows platforms.
35. mASSET
About: mAsset is a mobile based tool that act as a supplement application to capture details such as photo and Geo-coordinates of the Assets into National Asset Directory (NAD). Additionally, this application is also used to capture the details of Asset (Category, sub-category, name of the Asset, Photo & Geo-coordinates) which are not available in the NAD application. NAD is one of the applications developed under Panchayat Enterprise Suite under e-Panchayat Mission Mode Project.
Website.http://assetdirectory.gov.in/
37. MCA21
About: The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA), Government of India, has initiated the MCA21 project, which enables easy and secure access to MCA services in an assisted manner for corporate entities, professionals, and general public. The MCA21project is designed to fully automate all processes related to enforcement and compliance of the legal requirements under the Companies Act, 1956.
The project further seeks to achieve inter-operability with the National e-Governance Services Delivery Gateway (NSDG), which will help extend MCA services to businesses via multiple front-end delivery channels, and which will also help provide other value-added services over and above the base services offered by MCA21.
Website.http://www.mca.gov.in
38. mCESSATION
About: Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, in partnership with World Health Organisation and the International Telecommunications Union, has started an initiative for utilising mobile technology for tobacco cessation. WHO-ITU’s ‘Be Healthy Be Mobile’ initiative, aims to reach out to tobacco users of all categories who want to quit tobacco use and support them towards successful quitting through constant text messaging on mobile phones.
39. mKAVACH
MKavach is a comprehensive mobile device security solution with an emphasis and approach on protecting mobile device resources rather than scanning for malwares signatures. The major threats on mobile devices can be broadly categorized into data compromise, malicious applications, physical thefts and mis-utilization of hardware resources. M-Kavach is designed to provide protection against the above mentioned threats, through its features such as Secure Storage, Application Manager, Anti-Theft, Call/SMS filter and authorized access to device resources like WiFi, Bluetooth & Camera.
40. mKISAN
About: mKisan SMS Portal has been conceptualised to give a quantum leap in coverage of farmers and geographical area in a timely, specific, holistic and need based knowledge dissemination among the farmers by leveraging the power of mobile telephony in such a way that all sectors use this platform to not only reach out to the farmers but also to address their concerns and queries.
Website.http://mkisan.gov.in/
41. MOTHER & CHILD TRACKING SYSTEM (MCTS)
About:Mother and Child Tracking System (MCTS) is an initiative of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare to leverage information technology for ensuring delivery of full spectrum of healthcare and immunization services to pregnant women and children up to 5 years of age. It facilitates and monitors service delivery and also establishes a two way communication between the service providers and beneficiaries.
42. mRAKTKOSH
About: The web-based mechanism interconnects all the Blood Banks of the State into a single network. The Integrated Blood Bank MIS refers the acquisition, validation, storage and circulation of various live data and information electronically regarding blood donation and transfusion service. Such system is able to assemble heterogeneous data into legible reports to support decision making from effective donor screening to optimal blood dissemination in the field.
Website.http://www.eraktkosh.in/
About: A national ICT based portal has been developed, primarily to connect opportunities with the aspirations of the youth. This portal facilitates registration of job seekers, job providers, skill providers, career counsellors, etc. Additionally, it provides job matching services in a highly transparent and user-friendly manner. These facilities along with career counselling will be delivered by the portal through multiple channels like career centers, mobile devices, CSCs, etc.
Website.https://www.ncs.gov.in/
About: National Knowledge Network (NKN) project is aimed at establishing a strong and robust Indian network which will be capable of providing secure and reliable connectivity. Globally, frontier research and innovation are shifting towards multidisciplinary and collaborative paradigm and require substantial communication and computational power. In India, NKN with its multi-gigabit capability aims to connect all universities, research institutions, libraries, laboratories, healthcare and agricultural institutions across the country to address such paradigm shift.
Website.http://nkn.gov.in/home
NSP is a one-stop solution for end-to-end scholarship process right from the submission of student application, verification, sanction and disbursal to end beneficiary for all the scholarships provided by the Government of India. This initiative aims at providing a Simplified, Mission-oriented, Accountable, Responsive & Transparent 'SMART' System for faster & effective disposal of Scholarships applications and delivery of funds directly into beneficiaries account without any leakages.
Website.http://scholarships.gov.in/
About: The initiative is part of the Government of India’s efforts to spread the message of energy efficiency in the country. UJALA scheme aims to promote efficient use of energy at the residential level; enhance the awareness of consumers About: the efficacy of using energy efficient appliances and aggregating demand to reduce the high initial costs thus facilitating higher uptake of LED lights by residential users.
Website.http://www.ujala.gov.in/
47. NATIONAL VOTERS SERVICE PORTAL (NVSP)
About: The portal was developed with an aim to provide single window service electors. Through NVSP, a user can avail and access various services such as access the electoral list, apply for voter id card, apply online for corrections in voter’s card, view details of Polling booth, Assembly Constituency and Parliamentary constituency, and get the contact details of Booth Level officer, Electoral Registration Officer, among other services.
Website.http://www.nvsp.in/
48. NIKSHAY
About:To monitor Revised National Tuberculosis Programme (RNTCP) effectively, a web enabled and case based monitoring application called NIKSHAY has been developed by National Informatics Centre (NIC). This is used by health functionaries at various levels across the country in association with Central TB Division (CTD), Ministry of Health & Family Welfare. NIKSHAY covers various aspects of controlling TB using technological innovations. Apart from web based technology, SMS services have been used effectively for communication with patients and monitoring the programme on day to day basis.
49. NIRBHAYA APP
About:.
Nirbhaya: Be Fearless© is an android emergency application, which can send a distress call or emergency message to a specified contact or group in an emergency situation faced by a woman or any other individual in general. Correct Location, Information and Communication, with and from the app is dependent upon the basic hardware/software requirements, like - Active Data plan, SMS plan, minimum talk time and active GPS functionality.
50. ONLINE LABS (OLABS)
About:Online Labs (OLabs) for school lab experiments provides students with the ease and convenience of conducting experiments over the internet. It has been developed to supplement the traditional physical labs and bridge the constraints of time and geographical distances. This not only reduces the costs incurred for conducting experiments in real time but gives a student the flexibility to explore and repeat experiments till they are thorough.
Website.http://www.olabs.edu.in/
51 PARIVAHAN PORTAL
About: The portal was launched to improve the quality of service delivery to the citizen and the quality of work environment of the RTOs. Its mission has been to automate all Vehicle Registration and Driving License related activities in transport authorities of country with introduction of smart card technology to handle issues like inter-state transport vehicle movement and to create state and national level registers of vehicles/DL information. The latest initiative has been to centralize both applications- VAHAN and SARATHI, for ensuring higher tranparency, security and reliability of operations through a countrywide unified database and provision of a highly citizen and trade centric web enabled environment.
52. PASSPORT SEVA PROJECT (PSP)
About: Passport Seva enables simple, efficient and transparent processes for delivery of passport and related services. Apart from creating a countrywide networked environment for Government staff, it integrates with the State Police for physical verification of applicant's credentials and with India Post for delivery of passports. The Passport Seva Project is transforming passport and related services in India to provide a best-in-class experience to Indian citizens. PSP is enabling MEA to deliver passport services in a reliable, convenient and transparent manner, within defined service levels.
Website.http://www.passportindia.gov.in/
53. PROJECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (PMIS)
Project Management and Information System (PMIS) has been developed in National eGovernance Division (NeGD) for Mission Mode Projects under e-Kranti.
- PMIS is an integrated information system
- PMIS offers information on cost, time and performance parameters of a project
- PMIS is decision oriented
- PMIS is capable of providing exception reports
Website.http://pmis.negd.gov.in/
54. PROJECT MONITORING WEBSITE FOR ECOURTS
About: The website was planned to develop, deliver, install and implement automated decision-making and decision support system in 700 courts of Delhi, Bombay, Kolkata & Chennai; 900 courts in the 29 capital city courts of states and UTs and 13000 district and subordinate courts. The objective of the project was to help judicial administrations of the courts in streamlining their day-to-day activities.
Website.http://ecourts.nic.in/
55. PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (PFMS)
PFMS initially started as a Plan scheme named CPSMS of the Planning Commission in 2008-09 as a pilot in four States of Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Punjab and Mizoram for four Flagship schemes e.g. MGNREGS, NRHM, SSA and PMGSY. After the initial phase of establishing a network across Ministries / Departments, it has been decided to undertake National rollout of CPSMS (PFMS) to link the financial networks of Central, State Governments and the agencies of State Governments.
Website.https://cpsms.nic.in/
56. PUSA KRISHI
About: With the vision to take technology to the farm fields, Pusa Krishi application was developed. The app helps the farmers to find easy solutions to problems in their farm fields and get information About: weather and accordingly take measures to save crops. It also offers information related to new varieties of crops developed by Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR), resource conserving cultivation practices as well as farm machinery and its implementation will help in increasing returns to farmers.
mPassport Seva
If you are planning to get a passport or already applied for it and waiting for the official verification process to start; then, you can install mPassport Seva app developed by Consular, Passport, and Visa (CPV) Division, Government of India. It shows passport application status tracking, locating the nearest Passport Seva Kendra (PSK) and general information such documents required for verification and other various steps involved in obtaining a Passport. It will also offer real-time police verification status and how to appeal passport office in case of rejection. It is available on both Google Play and the Apple App Store.
57. SARANSH
About:A CBSE Initiative, Saransh is a tool for comprehensive self-review and analysis for CBSE affiliated schools and parents. It enables them to analyze students' performance in order to take remedial measures. Saransh brings schools, teachers and parents closer, so that they can monitor the progress of students and help them improve their performance.
58. SHAALA DARPAN
KV Shaala Darpan is an e-Governance platform for all Kendriya Vidyalayas in the country. It aims to improve quality of learning, efficiency of school administration, governance of schools & service delivery to key stakeholders namely, students, parents, teachers, community and schools.
59. Shala Siddhi
About:The National Programme on School Standards and Evaluation (NPSSE), known as Shaala Sidhdhi is a comprehensive instrument for school evaluation leading to school improvement. Developed by the National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), it aims to enable schools to evaluate their performance in a more focused and strategic manner and facilitate them to make professional judgments for improvement.
Website.http://shaalasiddhi.nuepa.org/
60. SMS-BASED MID-DAY MEAL MONITORING SCHEME
:Mid-Day Meal mobile app is meant for effective monitoring of daily and monthly mid-day meal data to be sent by the schools. The app provides additional data communicating mechanism for the MDM in-charge/teacher who has to send the daily/monthly data using SMS. The app, once installed on android device, does not need Internet to send MDM figures as user has option to send the figure through SMS from the app. This simplifies the job of MDM in-charge, who even does not have to remember the SMS formats. The higher authorities at Block, District and State level have a very simple and effective mechanism in shape of this app on their mobile devices for effective and efficient monitoring of daily as well as monthly data transmission by all the MDM in-charge falling under their jurisdiction. The authorities can send SMS alerts to all defaulters using single button available in the app.
Website.http://mdm.nic.in/
61. SOIL HEALTH CARD
About:It aims at promoting Integrated Nutrient Management (INM) through judicious use of chemical fertilisers including secondary and micro nutrients in conjunction with organic manures and bio-fertilisers for improving soil health and its productivity; strengthening of soil and fertiliser testing facilities to provide soil test based recommendations to farmers for improving soil fertility; ensuring quality control requirements of fertilisers, bio-fertilisers and organic fertilisers under Fertiliser Control Order, 1985; upgradation of skill and knowledge of soil testing laboratory staff, extension staff and farmers through training and demonstrations; promoting organic farming practices etc.
62. STARTUP INDIA PORTAL AND MOBILE APP
About:Startup India is a flagship initiative of the Government of India, intended to build a strong eco-system for nurturing innovation and Startups in the country that will drive sustainable economic growth and generate large scale employment opportunities. The Government through this initiative aims to empower Startups to grow through innovation and design.
Website.http://www.startupindia.gov.in/
63. SUGAMAYA PUSTAKALYA
About:“Sugamaya Pustakalaya” is an online platform that makes accessible content available to print-disabled people. The library houses publications across diverse subjects and languages and multiple accessible formats. It has been created by Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjan), Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in collaboration with member organizations of Daisy Forum of India and powered by TCS Access.
About:The Swachhta Abhiyan has turned into a National Movement with citizens now becoming active participants in cleanliness activities across the nation. The dream of a ‘Clean India’ once seen by Mahatma Gandhi is being realized with millions of people across the country joining the cleanliness initiatives of the government departments, NGOs and local community centres to make India clean as a part of this ‘Jan Andolan’.
Website.https://swachhbharat.mygov.in/
65. SWAYAM
About:SWAYAM seeks to bridge the digital divide for students who have hitherto remained untouched by the digital revolution and have not been able to join the mainstream of the knowledge economy.This is done through an indigenous developed IT platform that facilitates hosting of all the courses, taught in classrooms from 9th class till post-graduation to be accessed by anyone, anywhere at any time.
Website.https://swayam.gov.in
66. UDAAN
Udaan is a special initiative to address the needs of the educated unemployed in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K). It is focused on youth of the state, who are graduate, post graduate and three year diploma engineers. The programme is designed to encourage corporates to travel to J&K meet with the youth and hire aspiring youth in J&K who wish to explore the opportunity to work with corporates. Udaan provides a framework of support to the youth to travel, undergo training in firms and transit to work.
Website.http://nsdcudaan.com/
67. UMANG
UMANG (Unified Mobile Application for New-Age Governance) is one of the key initiatives under the Digital India program to develop a common, unified platform and mobile app to facilitate a single point of access to all government services. It is envisaged to act as a master application, which will integrate 200 applications which will offer around 1,200 services of various government departments of the Centre, states and local bodies, and even some important utility services from the private sector. Its primary aim is to abridge inconvenience faced by users in managing multiple mobile apps and facilitate a one-stop-solution to avail varied government services.
Website.https://umang.gov.in
For easier access to government services, the UMANG platform was developed. It is as a unified platform to deliver major national services through mobile phones.
The platform enables the citizens to access primarily G2C services from the central government, states and union territories, and local bodies from a single application. UMANG currently offers 336 government services. It aims to have more than 1,200 digital services available on its platform.
Umang Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance (UMANG) is developed by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and National e-Governance Division (NeGD). Umang acts as a unified platform for all citizens toaccess all government departments and theirservices. It provides seamless integration with other Digital India Services like Aadhaar, DigiLocker, and PayGov. The government says that all the new such service will automatically be integrated with platform. It also supports Aadhaar-based and other authentication mechanisms for service access. The sensitive profile data is saved in an encrypted format and no one can view this information.
Umang can also help users get PAN card, check Provident Fund (PF) balance, file IT Returns, pay utility bills (electricity, water, property tax, etc...) and more. Students can also view their CBSE, ICSE results and also check out AICTE-certified colleges on the Umang app. it supports 13 regional dialects including Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Bengali, Marathi and others. It is available on both Google Play and the Apple App Store.
68. UN-RESERVED TICKET THROUGH MOBILE APPLICATION (UTS APP)
About: In order to promote paperless economy, Indian Railways has launched its new UTS on mobile application. This official android mobile ticketing app enables booking unreserved paperless journey ticket, issue/renew season ticket and platform ticket. The app has introduced two modes of booking mobile tickets-Paper Ticket and Paperless Ticket.
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- AADHAAR
About: Aadhaar identity platform is one of the key pillars of ‘Digital India’, wherein every resident of the country is provided with a unique identity or Aadhaar number. The largest biometrics based identification system in the world, Aadhaar is a strategic policy tool for social and financial inclusion, public sector delivery reforms, managing fiscal budgets, increase convenience and promote hassle-free people-centric governance. It is unique and robust enough to eliminate duplicate or fake identities and may be used as a basis/primary identifier to roll out several Government welfare schemes and programmes for effective service delivery thereby promoting transparency and good governance.
Website.https://uidai.gov.in/beta/
2. BHARAT BROADBAND NETWORK (BBNL)
About: Bharat Broadband Network Limited is a special purpose vehicle set up under Companies Act by Government of India with an authorized capital of Rs. 1000 Cr. It has been mandated to create the National Optical Fiber Network (NOFN) in India. A total of around 2,50,000 Gram Panchayats spread over 6,600 Blocks and 641 Districts are to be covered by laying incremental fiber.
3. CENTRE FOR EXCELLENCE FOR INTERNET OF THINGS (COE-IT)
About:The Centre of Excellence for IoT was announced as a part of the Digital India Initiative to jump start the IOT ecosystem taking advantage of India's IT strengths and help the country attain a leadership role in the convergent area of hardware and software. The main objective of the center is to create innovative applications and domain capability. Additionally, the center will help build industry capable talent, start-up community and an entrepreneurial ecosystem for IOT.
Website.http://www.coe-iot.in/
4. CERT-IN
About:CERT-In was formed with an aim to secure Indian cyber space. CERT-In provides Incident Prevention and Response services as well as Security Quality Management Services. CERT-In has been designated under Section 70B of Information Technology (Amendment) Act 2008 to serve as the national agency to perform the following functions in the area of cyber security:
• Collection, analysis and dissemination of information on cyber incidents
• Forecast and alerts of cyber security incidents
• Emergency measures for handling cyber security incidents
• Coordination of cyber incident response activities
• Issue guidelines, advisories, vulnerability notes and whitepapers relating to information security practices, procedures, prevention, response and reporting of cyber incidents
Website.http://www.cert-in.org.in/
5. CSC 2.0
About: CSC 2.0 aims to establish a self sustaining network of 2.5 lakh CSC centres at Gram Panchayat (GP) level under Digital India and deliver various citizen centric services. It is envisaged as transaction-based and service delivery-based model, delivering a large bouquet of e-services through a single delivery platform, which would increase the sustainability of the CSCs across the Country. The project proposes to strengthen the CSC network by ensuring standardization of service availability and ensuring capacity building of all stakeholders involved.
CSCs are the front-end access points for the delivery of government electronic services.
CSCs provide digital services to citizens close to their place of residence, which contributes to a digitally and financially inclusive society. Currently, around 310,000 CSCs, spread all over the country, ensure that digital services are delivered in an accessible and affordable manner.
They create digital empowerment by providing more than 350 services in the fields of education, health, finance, and agriculture.
CSCs have been generating employment opportunities for India’s rural youth. CSCs support financial inclusion (through ebanking, DigiPay, insurance, and pension), healthcare services, skill development, and e-commerce.
6. CYBER SWACHHTA KENDRA
About: Cyber Swachhta Kendra (Botnet Cleaning and Malware Analysis Centre) is a part of the Government of India's Digital India initiative to create a secure cyber space by detecting botnet infections in India and to notify, enable cleaning and securing systems of end users so as to prevent further infections. It is set up in accordance with the objectives of the ‘National Cyber Security Policy’, which envisages creating a secure cyber eco system in the country. This centre operates in close coordination and collaboration with Internet Service Providers and Product/Antivirus companies.
7. DEEN DAYAL UPADHYAYA GRAM JYOTI YOJANA
About: One of the flagship programmes of the Power Ministry (MoP), Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) is designed to provide continuous power supply to the entire rural India. With this scheme, the government had decided to electrify 18,452 unelectrified villages within 1000 days, by May 1, 2018. The DDUGJY can benefit rural households significantly as electricity is extremely vital for growth and development of the country.
Website.http://www.ddugjy.in/
8. DIGILOCKER
About: DigiLocker is the Indian Government’s flagship program aimed at transforming India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. DigiLocker ties into Digital India’s visions areas of providing citizens a shareable private space on a public cloud and making all documents/certificates available on this cloud. Targeted at the idea of paperless governance, DigiLocker is a platform for issuance and verification of documents & certificates in a digital way, thus eliminating the use of physical documents.
Website.https://digilocker.gov.in/
9. DIGISEVAK- VOLUNTEER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (VMS)
About: DigiSevak is an online volunteering platform for interested citizens who want to contribute to the success of Digital India program. Various government department and agencies can create volunteering tasks and volunteers can choose tasks based on their skills and interest areas. The platform provides means for end-to-end execution of a volunteering task, right from registration of volunteers to creation of tasks, evaluation of tasks and rewards & recognition of contribution by volunteers.
Website.http://digisevak.gov.in/
About DigiLocker
Targeted at the idea of paperless governance, DigiLocker is a platform for issuance and verification of documents & certificates in a digital way, thus eliminating the use of physical documents. Indian citizens who sign up for a DigiLocker account get a dedicated cloud storage space that is linked to their Aadhaar (UIDAI) number. Organizations that are registered with Digital Locker can push electronic copies of documents and certificates (e.g. driving license, Voter ID, School certificates) directly into citizens lockers. Citizens can also upload scanned copies of their legacy documents in their accounts. These legacy documents can be electronically signed using the eSign facility.
The platform has the following benefits:
- Citizens can access their digital documents anytime, anywhere and share it online. This is convenient and time saving.
- It reduces the administrative overhead of Government departments by minimizing the use of paper.
- Digital Locker makes it easier to validate the authenticity of documents as they are issued directly by the registered issuers.
- Self-uploaded documents can be digitally signed using the eSign facility (which is similar to the process of self-attestation).
The following are the key stakeholders in the DigiLocker system:
- Issuer: Entity issuing e-documents to individuals in a standard format and making them electronically available e.g. CBSE, Registrar Office, Income Tax department, etc.
- Requester: Entity requesting secure access to a particular e-document stored within a repository (e.g. University, Passport Office, Regional Transport Office, etc.)
- Resident: An individual who uses the Digital Locker service based on Aadhaar number.
The main technology components of the DigiLocker system are:
- Repository: Collection of e-documents that is exposed via standard APIs for secure, real-time access.
- Access Gateway: Secure online mechanism for requesters to access e-documents from various repositories in real-time using URI (Uniform Resource Indicator).
- DigiLocker Portal: Dedicated cloud based personal storage space, linked to each resident’s Aadhaar for storing e-documents, or URIs of e-documents.
More details on DigiLocker are available athttps://digilocker.gov.in/resource-center.php
10. DIGITAL SAKSHARTA ABHIYAAN (DISHA)
About: The Digital Saksharta Abhiyan or National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM) Scheme has been formulated to impart IT training to 52.5 lakh persons, including Anganwadi, ASHA workers and authorised ration dealers in all the States/UTs across the country. The initiative aims at training non-IT literate citizens to become IT literate to enable their active and effective participation in the democratic, developmental process, and enhance their livelihood too.
Website.http://www.ndlm.in/
11. DIGITIZE INDIA
About:Digitize India Platform (DIP) is an initiative of the Government of India under the Digital India Programme to provide digitization services for scanned document images or physical documents for any organization. The aim is to digitize and make usable all the existing content in different formats and media, languages, digitize and create data extracts for document management, IT applications and records management.
Website.https://digitizeindia.gov.in/
12. DIRECT BENEFIT TRANSFER (DBT)
About: DBT was initiated with the aim to reform Government delivery system by re-engineering the existing process in welfare schemes for simpler and faster flow of information/funds and to ensure accurate targeting of the beneficiaries, de-duplication and reduction of fraud. DBT will bring efficiency, effectiveness, transparency and accountability in the Government system and infuse confidence of citizen in the governance. Use of modern technology and IT tools will realize the dream of MAXIMUM GOVERNANCE MINIMUM GOVERNMENT.
Website.https://dbtbharat.gov.in/
13. eBASTA
About: In line with the Government's Digital India initiative, this project has created a framework to make school books accessible in digital form as e-books to be read and used on tablets and laptops. The main idea is to bring various publishers (free as well as commercial) and schools together on one platform. In addition to the portal, a back-end framework to facilitate the organization and easy management of such resources has been developed, along with the web-based applications that can be installed on tablets for navigating the framework.
Website.https://www.ebasta.in/
14. ELECTRONIC DEVELOPMENT FUND (EDF)
About: As part of the ‘Digital India’ agenda of the Government, and to develop the Electronics System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) sector in order to achieve ‘Net Zero Imports’ by 2020 and to look at India as their next destination to cater to the domestic Indian demand as well as act as an exports hub in the ESDM sector. It is with this objective that an Electronic Development Fund (EDF) is set up as a "Fund of Funds" to participate in professionally managed "Daughter Funds" which in turn will provide risk capital to companies developing new technologies in the area of electronics, nano-electronics and Information Technology (IT).
15. eSIGN
eSign is an online electronic signature service which can be integrated with service delivery applications via an open API to facilitate an Aadhaar holder to digitally sign a document. Using authentication of the Aadhaar holder through Aadhaar e-KYC service, online electronic signature service is facilitated
Website.http://cca.gov.in/
16. ESSO-INDIAN NATIONAL CENTER FOR OCEAN INFORMATION SERVICES
About: ESSO-INCOIS was established as an autonomous body in 1999 under the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) and is a unit of the Earth System Science Organization (ESSO). ESSO- INCOIS is mandated to provide the best possible ocean information and advisory services to society, industry, government agencies and the scientific community through sustained ocean observations and constant improvements through systematic and focussed research.
17. eTRADE
The Department of Commerce is pursuing the project eTRADE, the purpose of which is to facilitate foreign trade in India by way of promoting effective and efficient delivery of services by various regulatory / facilitating agencies involved in foreign trade so as to enable the trade to avail services from these agencies in online environment.
18. GARV GRAMEEN VIDYUTIKARAN MOBILE APP
About: The mobile application provides real-time updated data of ongoing electrification process to all users/stakeholders and provides information About: Government schemes and electrification data. The app can also be used for sharing inspirational stories of differently-abled, who achieved success despite all odds.
Website.http://garv.ddugjy.in/
19. GOVERNMENT eMARKETPLACE
About: Government e-Marketplace (GeM) is single window solution for online procurement of common use Goods & Services required by various Government Departments / Organizations / PSUs. GeM aims to enhance transparency, efficiency and speed in public procurement. It also provides the tools for direct purchase, e-bidding and reverse e-auction to facilitate the government users to achieve the best value for the money. The portal offers online registration facilities for all stakeholders namely Government Users, Product Sellers and Service Providers.
Website.https://gem.gov.in/
20 HERITAGE CITY DEVELOPMENT AND AUGMENTATION YOJANA (HRIDAY)
About:.
The Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India, launched the National Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana (HRIDAY) scheme on 21st January, 2015, with a focus on holistic development of heritage cities. The scheme aims to preserve and revitalise soul of the heritage city to reflect the city’s unique character by encouraging aesthetically appealing, accessible, informative & secured environment.
Website.http://hridayindia.in/
21. INTEGRATED HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM (IHIP)
About: An Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP) is being setup by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW). The primary objective of IHIP is to enable the creation of standards compliant Electronic Health Records (EHRs) of the citizens on a pan-India basis along with the integration and interoperability of the EHRs through a comprehensive Health Information Exchange (HIE) as part of this centralized accessible platform.
Website.https://www.nhp.gov.in/
22. IRCTC CONNECT
About: In order to cater to the growing demand of passengers to make the ticketing application more user-friendly and faster, IRCTC Connect was developed. The new app with several add-on features is based on the next generation e-ticketing system. Synchronised with the ticketing website, the app facilitates search and book train tickets, check existing reservations or cancel them, and get upcoming journey alerts
23. JEEVAN PRAMAAN
About: Jeevan Pramaan is a biometric enabled digital service for pensioners of Central Government, State Government or any other Government organization. The new service aims to streamline the process of issuing life certificate and make it a hassle-free experience for the pensioners. With this initiative the pensioner’s requirement to physically present him/her in front of the disbursing agency or the certification authority will become a thing of the past benefiting the pensioners in a huge way and cutting down on unnecessary logistical hurdles.
Website.https://jeevanpramaan.gov.in/
24. MEGHRAJ (COMPLTERED)
Indian Government has initiated an important and strategic move to integrate Cloud computing paradigm for running government departments and services. It is called Meghraj GI Cloud
In order to utilise and harness the benefits of Cloud Computing, Government of India has embarked upon an ambitious initiative - "GI Cloud" which has been named as 'MeghRaj'. The focus of this initiative is to accelerate delivery of e-services in the country while optimizing ICT spending of the Government. This will ensure optimum utilization of the infrastructure and speed up the development and deployment of eGov applications.
The government has started to utilise cloud computing. The MeghRaj initiative will accelerate the delivery of e-services in the country while optimising the government’s ICT-related spending.
It will ensure the development and deployment of e-governance applications. The architectural vision of GI cloud encompasses a set of discrete cloud computing environments spread across multiple locations, built on existing or new (augmented) infrastructure and following a set of common protocols, guidelines, and standards issued by the government.
25. MOBILE SEVA APP STORE
About: A mobile applications store (m-AppStore) has been created to facilitate the process of development and deployment of suitable mobile applications for delivery of public services through mobile devices. The m-AppStore store is integrated with the MSDG and it shall use the MSDG infrastructure for deployment of such applications. The m-AppStore is based on service oriented architecture and cloud based technologies using open standards as far as practicable.
Mobile Seva is an e-governance initiative that enables interactions between government departments and Indian citizens.
The programme includes a Mobile App Store to facilitate the process of deploying suitable mobile applications for the delivery of public services through mobile phones. Over 4,12 government departments have been integrated with the platform for mobile governance services.
26. NATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTING MISSION (NSM)
About:.
National SuperComputing Mission has been envisaged to empower the national academic and R&D institutions, spread across the country, by installing a vast supercomputing grid comprising of more than 70 high-performance computing facilities. These supercomputers will also be networked on the National Supercomputing grid over the National Knowledge Network (NKN).
Website.https://nsmindia.in
27. OPEN DATA
About:Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India - data.gov.in - is a platform for supporting Open Data initiative of Government of India. The portal is intended to be used by Government of India Ministries/ Departments their organizations to publish datasets, documents, services, tools and applications collected by them for public use. It intends to increase transparency in the functioning of Government and also open avenues for many more innovative uses of Government Data to give different perspective.
Website.https://data.gov.in/
28. RAPID ASSESSMENT SYSTEM
About:National e-Governance Division, a division of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, has developed a Rapid Assessment System (RAS) for continuous feedback for e-services delivered by Government of India and State Governments. This system has multiple channels for receiving feedback and is backed by analytics. These analytics will help integrated departments for continuous system improvement and better governance.
Website.http://ras.gov.in/
29. SINGLE WINDOW INTERFACE FOR TRADE (SWIFT)
About: As part of the “Ease of Doing Business” initiatives, the Central Board of Excise & Customs, Government of India has taken up implementation of the Single Window Project to facilitate the Trading Aross Borders in India. The 'India Customs Single Window' would allow importers and exporters, the facility to lodge their clearance documents online at a single point only. Required permissions, if any, from other regulatory agencies would be obtained online without the trader having to approach these agencies. The Single Window Interface for Trade (SWIFT), would reduce interface with Governmental agencies, dwell time and the cost of doing business.
30. STATE WIDE AREA NETWORK
About:The Government had approved the Scheme for establishing State Wide Area Networks (SWANs) across the country, in March, 2005 to be expended by the Department under Grant-in-Aid of Rs. 2,005 crore, over a period of five years. Under this Scheme, technical and financial assistance are being provided to the States/UTs for establishing SWANs to connect all State/UT Headquarters up to the Block level via District/ sub-Divisional Headquarters, in a vertical hierarchical structure with a minimum bandwidth capacity of 2 Mbps per link.
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EMPOWERMENT
1.AADHAAR ENABLED PAYMENT SYSTEM
About: AEPS is a bank led model which allows online interoperable financial inclusion transaction at PoS (MicroATM) through the Business correspondent of any bank using the Aadhaar authentication. It is a payment service empowering a bank customer to use Aadhaar as his/her identity to access his/ her respective Aadhaar enabled bank account and perform basic banking transactions like balance enquiry, cash deposit, cash withdrawal, remittances through a Business Correspondent.
Website.http://npci.org.in/home.aspx
2. BPO Scheme
About: The India BPO Promotion Scheme (IBPS) seeks to incentivize establishment of 48,300 seats in respect of BPO/ITES operations across the country. It is distributed among each State in proportion of State's population with an outlay of Rs. 493 Crore. This would help in capacity building in smaller cities in terms of infra & manpower and would become basis for next wave of IT/ITES led growth. This scheme has potential to create employment opportunities of around 1.5 lakh direct jobs considering three shift operations. It may also create good number of indirect jobs.
Website.https://ibps.stpi.in/
3. DigiDhan ABHIYAAN
The initiative plans to enable citizens and merchants to undertake real time digital transactions through the DIGIDHAN Bazaar.Through organising DigiDhan Mela’s across the country, it aims to handhold users in downloading, installing and using various digital payment systems for carrying out digital transactions.
Website.https://digidhan.mygov.in/
4. MyGov
MyGov platform is a unique path breaking initiative which was launched by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi. It is a unique first-of-its-kind participatory governance initiative involving the common citizen at large. The idea of MyGov brings the government closer to the common man by the use of online platform creating an interface for healthy exchange of ideas and views involving the common citizen and experts with the ultimate goal to contribute to the social and economic transformation of India.
Website.http://mygov.in
MyGov It is developed by the government of India. MyGov offers a single platform for citizens to offer suggestions to central ministries and associated organizations to help them improve existing services. Users can actively participate in new policy...
5. NATIONAL MISSION ON EDUCATION USING ICT
About: The National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT) has been envisaged as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme to leverage the potential of ICT, in teaching and learning process for the benefit of all the learners in Higher Education Institutions in any time any where mode. It is a landmark initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Development to address all the education and learning related needs of students, teachers and lifelong learners.
Website.http://www.nmeict.ac.in/#
6. NORTH EAST BPO PROMOTION SCHEME (NEBPS)
About: The North East BPO Promotion Scheme (NEBPS) has been approved under Digital India Programme, to incentivize BPO/ITES Operations in North East Region (NER) for creation of employment opportunities for the youths and growth of IT-ITES Industry. The objectives of NEBPS are as under:
(i) Creation of employment opportunities for the local youth in NER, by promoting the IT/ITES Industry particularly by setting up the BPO/ITES operations.
(ii) Promotion of investment in IT/ITES Sector in NER in order to expand the base of IT Industry and secure balanced regional growth.
7. NREGA-SOFT
About: NREGAsoft envisions implementing e-Governance across State, District and three tiers of Panchayati Raj Institutions. It empowers the common man using the information technology as a facilitator. NREGAsoft provides information to citizen in compliance with the right to information Act (RTI Act). It makes available all the documents like Muster Rolls, registration application register, job card/employment register/muster roll issue register, muster roll receipt register which are hidden from public otherwise.
Website.http://www.nrega.net/ict/
8. OPEN FORGE
About: OpenForge is Government of India's platform for open collaborative development of e-governance applications. Through this platform, the government wants to promote the use of open source software and promote sharing and reuse of e-governance related source code. OpenForge has the following objectives:
-To provide a platform for maintaining code repositories and version control for government source code
-To promote a culture of open collaborative application development between public agencies and private organizations, citizens and institutions
-To reduce development cycles and fasten the rollout of e-governance applications in the country
-To deliver e-governance services and solutions of higher quality and security through increased transparency and mass peer review
-To reduce e-governance project cost and bring down total cost of ownership through a system of reuse, remixing and sharing
Website.https://openforge.gov.in/
9. PAHAL (DBTL)
About: The PAHAL (DBTL) aims to reduce diversion and eliminate duplicate or bogus LPG connections. The scheme was earlier launched in 2013 and was modified in 2015. Under the PaHaL scheme, LPG cylinders are sold at market rates and entitled consumers get the subsidy directly into their bank accounts. This is done either through an Aadhaar linkage or a bank account linkage.
10. PAYGOV INDIA
About: A National Payment Service platform has been envisaged for a common e-Governance infrastructure that will offer end-to-end transactional experience for a citizen which includes accessing various services through internet with payment gateway interface for online payments. Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology along with NSDL Database Management Ltd (NDML) created a common infrastructure that can be used by Center/States/Departments to offer various services through their National / State portals with a facility to make online payment using net banking, credit cards and debit cards.
Website.http://paygovindia.gov.in/
11. PRADHAN MANTRI GRAMIN DIGITAL SAKSHARTA ABHIYAAN
About: Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyaan is the scheme to make six crore persons in rural areas, across States/UTs, digitally literate, reaching to around 40% of rural households by covering one member from every eligible household by 31st March, 2019. The Scheme aims to bridge the digital divide, specifically targeting the rural population including the marginalised sections of society like Scheduled Castes (SC) / Scheduled Tribes (ST), Minorities, Below Poverty Line (BPL), women and differently-abled persons and minorities.
Website.https://www.pmgdisha.in/
12. PRADHAN MANTRI JAN-DHAN YOJANA (PMJDY)
PMJDY is a National Mission on Financial Inclusion encompassing an integrated approach to bring About: comprehensive financial inclusion of all the households in the country. The plan envisages universal access to banking facilities at least one basic banking account in every household, financial literacy, access to credit, insurance and pension facility. The initiative envisages channeling all Government benefits (from Centre / State / Local Body) to the beneficiaries’ accounts and pushing the Direct Benefits Transfer (DBT) scheme of the Union Government.
Website.http://pmjdy.gov.in/
13. PRADHAN MANTRI KAUSHAL VIKAS YOJANA (PMKVY)
Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) is the flagship scheme of the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE). The objective of this Skill Certification Scheme is to enable a large number of Indian youth to take up industry-relevant skill training that will help them in securing a better livelihood. Individuals with prior learning experience or skills will also be assessed and certified under Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL).
14. SMART CITIES
The Government of India launched the Smart Cities Mission in June 2015.Its objective is to promote sustainable and inclusive cities that provide core infrastructure and give a decent quality of life to its citizens, a clean and sustainable environment and application of ‘Smart’ Solutions.The focus is on sustainable and inclusive development and the idea is to look at compact areas, create a replicable model which will act like a lighthouse to other aspiring cities. The Smart Cities Mission is meant to set examples that can be replicated both within and outside the Smart City, catalysing the creation of similar Smart Cities in various regions and parts of the country.
15. TARGETED PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM (TPDS)
About: The Government of India launched the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) with focus on the poor. Under the TPDS, states were required to formulate and implement foolproof arrangements for the identification of the poor for delivery of foodgrains and for its distribution in a transparent and accountable manner at the FPS level. The scheme, when introduced, was intended to benefit About: 6 crore poor families for whom a quantity of About: 72 lakh tonnes of food grains was earmarked annually.
Website.http://dfpd.nic.in/
16. VISVESVARAYA PHD SCHEME FOR ELECTRONICS AND IT
About:.One of the key goals of the Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme is to encourage working professionals and non-PhD faculty members to pursue PhD in the ESDM & IT/ITES sectors as part-time candidates. It is envisioned that having part-time PhD students is likely to encourage the Industry-Academia interaction, help in the alignment of the R&D efforts between them and bring value to the country.
DIGITAL INDIA INFRASTRUCTURE FOR BUSINESS
Digital India Stacks
Digital India aims to transform India into a digital economy and knowledge society. At the core of this transformation is moving resident's traditional physical transactions to digital platform. A set of technologies used to enable digital transactions is called digital India stack or IndiaStack
Examples:
Before Digital India Resident
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Now in Digital India a Resident
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used to stand in a queue to book a railway tickets and show that ticket to TTE during journey.
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Books a railway ticket online and show his mobile ticket to TTE during travel
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used to get a paper-based driving license or degree certificate or marks cards
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Get her driving license in digital format directly delivered to
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Needed to present a xerox copy of relevant documents while opening a bank account
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Shows Aadhaar card and proves his identity through online authentication
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Traditional Vs Digital Transactions
Traditional Transaction
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Digital Transaction
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Digital India Technology Supporting
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Presence is required
(stand in a queue )
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Presence-less ( booking online)
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Aadhaar Number
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Paper-based (document/xerox)
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Paper-less
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Digilocker
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Cash based ( payment are done using physical currency)
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Cashless ( transfer funds digitally)
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UPI
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Physical signature
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Digital signature
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E-sign
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These set of Digital India Technologies enabling presence-less, paperless and cashless transactions is called IndiaStack.
IndiaStack is Public Goods
India Stack is a set of digital public goods which collectively make it easier for innovators to introduce digital services in India across a range of sectors.
India Stack has four essential layers:
Presence-less layer, which enables removal of barriers to people’s participation in formal services through digital identities and remote authentication mechanisms;
Paper-less layer, which enables digital records to be moved with an individual’s digital identity;
Cashless layer, which includes a set of payments services to ease monetary transactions; and
Consent layer, which empowers individuals to share their data in a safe and secure manner, thus enabling access to better financial, healthcare, and other services.
India Stack Layers
Consent Layer
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Provides a modern data sharing framework
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Data empowerment and data protection architecture (DEPA)
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Cashless Layer
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Game changing electronic payment systems, Transactions to cashless
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AEPS, APB and UPI
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Paperless layer
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Rapidly growing base of paperless system
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Aadhaar e-KYC, E-sign, Digilocker
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Presence layer
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Unique digital biometric identity with open access of nearly entire indian population
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Aadhaar Authentication
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JAM
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Jan Dhan, Aadhaar, Mobile
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The widespread rapid adoption of basic bank accounts under the Prime Minister’s financial inclusion scheme, the Jan Dhan Yojna (JDY); the digital identity called Aadhaar; and mobile phones, especially smartphones, has created a foundation (JAM) in India on which the India Stack operates.
IndiaStack
IndiaStack is a complete set of API, made available under the Open API Policy, which enables development of payment-enabled Apps. It includes Aadhaar for Authentication (Aadhaar already covers over 940 million people and will quickly cover the population of the entire nation providing the world’s largest authentication system), e-KYC documents (safe deposit locker for issue, storage and use of documents), e-Sign (digital signature acceptable under the laws), unified payment interface (for financial transactions) and privacy-protected data sharing within the stack of API.
Together, the India Stack enables Apps that could open up many opportunities in financial services, healthcare and education sectors of the Indian economy. What this essentially means is that developers and tech startups can now build software and create businesses around the readily available infrastructure offered through India Stack, thus opening a huge potential to tap into the booming smartphone market in the country. Since the consumer market in India is very large, such startups could also hope for institutional funding and gain from the early mover advantage
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IndiaStack has the potential to revolutionize the way government services of the future are delivered in a large country like India. The nation is looking for “a transition from technology-poor to innovation-rich society” and entrepreneurs have a good role to play. The problems (read opportunities) in financial services, healthcare and education are all so large that only the right technology and entrepreneurial brainpower can cost-effectively solve them. Solving these scale problems should mean great business sense too. India is the only country in the world offering such an open and secure API, India is determined to take the Digital India campaign to a whole new level.
IndiaStack as a business Enabler:
The rapid adoption of Aadhar, Jan Dhan Yojna, and smartphones (JAM) have created a fundamental layer of customer identification and access, on which multiple other digital transactions can be built. The combined initiative of UIDAI, CCA, DeitY, and NPCI has created a unified, integrated layer of digital tools and services (or information system highway) that is called as India Stack. Similar to the creation of the Internet (based on TCP/IP stack), where browsers and applications form the front end for access, here too the private sector players can focus on building customer facing solutions that ride on India Stack.
IndiaStack is like GPS
A good analogy of the kind of innovation possible is Uber which uses the building blocks of GPS, Google Maps, electronic payment and smartphone - none of which Uber built nor owns - to create a customer friendly transportation solution.. World over systems that provide information like India Stack are controlled by private companies where fear of monopolistic practices looms large e.g. Apply Pay is based on one click two factor authentication, Facebook Connect provides ID for a billion people, M-pesa provides digital payments on mobile to most of Kenya. In India, the entire stack is an open API stack built as a ‘public good’ which can be leveraged by the smallest startup. The focus has been to create this open plumbing and let innovation happen on the customer end of any solution. The explosion of innovation possible on this freely accessible digital foundation is extraordinary. This sets the stage for the hundreds of experiments or what Nobel Prize winning economist Edmund S. Phelps calls as ‘mass flourishing’ on the basis of widespread, indigenous innovation.
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Millions of people could not access current financial systems due to various friction points around paper based identity proof, access and interaction with physical bank, availability of hard cash. India Stack - starting from the basic foundation of JAM and building on the other layers - has completely eliminated these friction points and made these services universally accessible; thereby solving the demand side. More importantly, by becoming a free infrastructure service available to the smallest entrepreneur it has opened up the number of suppliers ready to innovate and fulfill demand from this demographic. It gives marginalized consumers more power to choose his/her provider.
IndiaStack lowers barriers
India Stack is the key enabler for lowering barriers to entry for experimentation by the small entrepreneur. For the first time in the country (and in the world) there is an opportunity to combine the sweeping tide of multiple technological forces into a unifying digital platform of change. For the first time, more than 1B Indian customer have access to the trinity of tools viz. mobile phone, Aadhaar number, and bank account. For the first time, innovators and entrepreneurs have access to a free, at scale, backend information system like India Stack, for launching digital products and services. For the first time, there will be a systemic injection of financing and regulatory support for the small guy to experiment. India is at an inflection point in India’s history; we stand at the edge of unprecedented digital innovation across customers needs and demographics. These innovations will leapfrog any existing solution worldwide, as they are backed by freely available cutting edge digital infrastructure, India Stack, and large scale demand - a fortuitous convergence that is unique to India.
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IMPACT ON CITIZENS (END USERS)
End user services are many and have to be tailored for consumption by demographic and regional needs of the population. Good services becoming available at their doorstep, most of the times on their mobile phones would should translate into convenience and increase in national productivity.
IMPACT ON THE SOFTWARE ECOSYSTEM
While government has the credibility and trust of its population in a democracy, involving the technology innovations from entrepreneurs and startups (private sector participation) would complete the circle. IndiaStack should start the ecosystem of software products offering financial inclusion, healthcare and education areas.
IMPACT ON E-GOVERNANCE
The model of API-driven integration should be a paradigm shift in e-governance applications, given the focus on transparency, security and availability of the integration points. Larger services can now be composed by different government organizations, while the consumed services and data are best managed by organizations responsible for them.
IndiaStack is an OPEN API
IndiaStack is a complete set of API, made available under the Open API Policy, which enables development of payment-enabled Apps. An API is a set of rules or code built into applications to enable software to communicate with each other . For example Google Maps API or Facebook APIs
It includes
Aadhaar for Authentication (Aadhaar already covers over 1000 million people and will quickly cover the population of the entire nation providing the world’s largest authentication system
e-KYC documents (safe deposit locker for issue, storage and use of documents),
e-Sign (digital signature acceptable under the laws),
Unified payment interface (for financial transactions) and privacy-protected data sharing within the stack of API.
National Health Stack
The National Health Stack (NHS) is a visionary digital framework usable by centre and state across public and private sectors. It represents a holistic platform that supports a multitude of health verticals and their disparate branches, and is capable of integrating future IT solutions for a sector that is poised for rapid, disruptive changes and unforeseen twists. It is now conceivable to aim for digital health records for all citizens by the year 2022.
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The proposed National Health Stack (NHS) will deploy a powerful technology arsenal, from Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning all the way to Artificial Intelligence and a state of the art Policy MarkUp Language. A complete redesign of the flow of people, money, and information, as well as a layered approach to providing comprehensive foundational health functions for all states and programs—grounded in an inclusive and interoperable technology. Once implemented, the National Health Stack will significantly bring down the costs of health protection, converge disparate systems to ensure a cashless and seamlessly integrated experience for the poorest beneficiaries, and promote wellness across the population.
The key components of the National Health Stack are—
A. National Health Electronic Registries: to create a single source of truth for and manage master health data of the nation;
A Coverage and Claims platform: building blocks to support large health protection schemes, enable horizontal and vertical expansion of RSSM by states and robust fraud detection;
A Federated Personal Health Records (PHR) Framework: to solve twin challenges of access to their own health data by patients and availability of health data for medical research, critical for advancing our understanding of human health;
A National Health Analytics Platform: to bring a holistic view combining information on multiple health initiatives and feed into smart policy making, for instance, through improved predictive analytics;
Other horizontal Components: including, and not restricted to, unique Digital Health ID, Health Data Dictionaries and Supply Chain Management for Drugs, payment gateways etc shared across all health programs.
- Continuum of Care as the Stack supports information flow across primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare
- Shift focus from Illness to Wellness to drive down future cost of health protection
- Cashless Care to ensure financial protection to the poor
- Timely Payments on Scientific Package Rates to service providers, a strong lever to participate in government-funded healthcare programs
- Robust Fraud Detection to prevent funds leakage
- Improved Policy Making through access to timely reporting on utilization and measurement of impact across health initiatives and
- Enhanced Trust and Accountability through non-repudiable transaction audit trails.
DIGITAL INDIA IN PRACTICE
Aadhaar - Cradle to Grave Resident Identity system
With huge infrastructure put in place and various projects built on it, it is time to put those resources in to use. Now we will consider how these technologies are being used by government to build and deliver citizen services electronically, integrate services seamlessly and bring about efficiency to administrative operations and transparency to its conduct. These technologies can be best understood in terms of (1) how government is using them (2) how residents are able to access services easily and (3) how private institutions and entrepreneurs are harnessing them for building innovative solutions to benefits their country people.
AADHAAR: CONCEPT:
Aadhaar identity platform is one of the key pillars of ‘Digital India’, wherein every resident of the country is provided with a unique identity or Aadhaar number. The largest biometrics based identification system in the world, Aadhaar is a strategic policy tool for social and financial inclusion, public sector delivery reforms, managing fiscal budgets, increase convenience and promote hassle-free people-centric governance. It is unique and robust enough to eliminate duplicate or fake identities and may be used as a basis/primary identifier to roll out several Government welfare schemes and programmes for effective service delivery thereby promoting transparency and good governance. https://uidai.gov.in/beta/
Aadhaar Authentication Uses
Government:
In fact, one of the first authentication applications was for the delivery of LPG canisters. A pilot project started in conjunction with the NREGA is working to allow people to open bank accounts and transfer funds to beneficiaries under the employment guarantee scheme. Many states so far have recognized the UID as proof of identity for various government services
Jan Dhan Yojana
The scheme Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) accepts Aadhaar card/number as the only document sufficient to open the bank account. Although you open PMJDY account after producing other documents as well. The benefits offered are RuPay card, free zero balance savings account, life and accident insurance and many others.
Passport in 10 days
This benefit of Aadhaar card will relieve you the most! If you have an Aadhaar card, you can get passport in just 10 days. Under this format, police verification will be done at a later date as opposed to the previous rule requiring police verification which used to be time-consuming. Also under the new government’s rule, if you need a passport, Aadhaar number is compulsory.
Digital Locker:
Government of India has launched digital locker (DigiLocker) system for everyone for storing all personal document on the government’s server. And Sign-up process for DigiLocker requires a person to link his/her 12 digit Aadhaar card number.
Monthly Pension
All the pensioners from select states will now have to register their Aadhaar card number to their respective department in order to receive monthly pension. This move was initiated as there have been fraudulent incidents as beneficiaries requesting pension were found to be fake.
Provident Fund
Similar to pension, provident fund money will be given to the account holder who’ve registered their Aadhaar number with employee provident fund organization (EPFO). Opening new bank account: Aadhaar letter provided by UIDAI is now acceptable by banks as a valid proof to open bank account. In fact, it can serve as an address proof as well provided address on Aadhaar card and address proof perfectly matches. i.e. no need to produce bunch of documents to the banks for opening the account.
Digital Life Certificate for Pensioners
Aadhaar linked digital life certificate is another initiative which was launched by Department of Electronics and IT. Named as “Jeevan Praman for Pensioners”, this system will end the process where pensioner had to be physically present at Pension Disbursing Agency to avail pension. Instead all the details of pensioner will be accessed digitally by the agency.
The Digital Life Certificate (DLC) for Pensioners Scheme or Jeevan Pramaan is a biometric-enabled digital service for pensioners.
Pensioners of the central government, state governments or any other government organisation can avail the benefit of this facility. One of the major requisites for the pensioners, post their retirement from service, is to provide life certificates to the authorised pension disbursing agencies (such as banks and post offices). Following which, their pension is credited to their respective bank accounts.
The DLC seeks to make this easier, by digitising the process.
SEBI
It is now accepted as a proof of address by Securities and Exchange board of India for investing in stock market. Till now, it was used by SEBI as identity proof. Government to use Aadhaar to deliver benefits to unorganised workers: The government is working on a plan to offer benefits like insurance and pension to over 40 crore unorganised workers in India using Aadhaar, Jan Dhan accounts and the existing platform without going for smart cards.
Voter Card Linking
Starting 9th March 2015, Aadhaar card UIDAI number would be linked to the voter ID’s. This action is taken to eliminate bogus voters. Once an Aadhaar number is linked, it would become impossible for a multiple voter ID card holder to make it’s illegal use, as registration requires voter card holder to be physically present and produce Aadhaar card to the polling booth officer for verification.
Entrepreneurial Uses
Novopay enables a resident to open an account in a store, and deposit and withdraw money. Every transaction is authenticated by Aadhaar. The system involves three pillars: a mobile phone, a store and an Aadhar card, and the transactions are all paperless. A customer gets a message on the mobile, and a receipt for money transactions. With a mobile, anyone can open an account in a kirana store to become part of Novopay.
The time of using Aadhaar has come. Government has created the infrastructure and leading the way in showing how Aadhaar can be used in service delivery. Even some enterprises have begun developing products and services that use Aadhaar authentication. It is time for others to follow the suit.
The grand project of providing a unique identity to residents by Government of India is coming to its fruitful completion. By April 2018, more than 120 crore Aadhaar numbers have been issued. UIDAI will complete enrollment of entire Indian population soon., With more than a billion people already enrolled in Central Identities Data Repository (CIDR)- aadhaar is increasingly becoming a standard resident authentication and e-KYC. Government is already making Aadhaar a de facto resident identification means and has already made it essential for availing many of its services. The list is expected to grow in coming days and many state government and public institutions have started integrating Aadhaar into their services or have plans to do so in coming days. Hence it is time to look at the Aadhaar authentication offerings and possible use case scenarios. The lead taken by Government in using Aadhaar is inspiring many enterprises to develop new products and services around Aadhaar profile.
e-Sign Service
Currently, many applications or forms submitted by a citizen require physical signature of the citizen. A digital signature takes the concept of traditional paper-based signing and turns it into an electronic "fingerprint." This "fingerprint," or coded message, is unique to both the document and the signer and binds them together. In short, a digital signature has the same function as that of a handwritten signature. Some of the salient features of digital signature are non-repudiation, integrity and authenticity. The Information Technology Act 2000 provides the required legal sanctity to digital signatures based on asymmetric crypto systems.
Government of India vide its Gazette Notification (REGD. NO. D. L.-33004/99 dated 28th January 2015) has announced a method that facilitates Certifying Authority to offer e-Sign service to citizens who have Aadhaar ID.
The objective of eSign service is to offer on-line service to citizens for instant signing of their documents securely in a legally acceptable form. Two major challenges involved are (a) authentication of the user and (b) Trusted method of signing. Aadhaar based authentication is carried out to address the first challenge and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is used to securely sign the user document and establish the trust.
Citizens with Aadhaar ID will be able to upload their documents to eSign service to obtain them digitally signed. At the backend, validation of user is carried out using Aadhaar service and generates a key pair (a public key and a private key) for the user and signs the document. The user is provided with the digitally signed document and the Digital Signature Certificate.
C-DAC through its e-Hastakshar initiative enables citizens with valid Aadhaar ID and registered mobile number to carryout digital signing of their documents online.
Salient Features
- Save cost and time
- Aadhaare-KYC based authentication
- improve user convenience
- Mandatory Aadhaar ID
- Easy to apply Digital Signature
- Biometric or OTP (optionally with PIN)based authentication
- Verifiable Signatures and Signatory
- Flexible and fast integration with application
- Legally recognized
- Suitable for individual, business and Government
- Managed by Licensed CAs
- API subscription Model
- Privacy concerns addressed
- Integrity with a complete audit trail
- Simple Signature verification
- Immediate destruction of keys after usage
- Short validity certificates
- No key storage and key protection concerns.
Benefits
Easy and secure way to digitally sign information anywhere, anytime - eSign is an online service without using physical dongles that offers application service providers the functionality to authenticate signers and perform the digital signing of documents using Aadhaar e-KYC service.
Facilitates legally valid signatures - eSign process involves consumer consent, Digital Signature Certificate generation, Digital Signature creation and affixing and Digital Signature Certificate acceptance in accordance with provisions of Information Technology Act. It enforce compliance, through API specification and licensing model of APIs and comprehensive digital audit trail is established to confirm the validity of transactions, are also preserved.
Flexible and easy to implement - eSign provides configurable authentication options in line with Aadhaar e-KYC service and also record Aadhaar id to verify the identities of signers. The signature option includes biometric or OTP authentication (optionally with PIN) through a registered mobile in the Aadhaar database. eSign enables millions of Aadhaar holders an easy way to access legally valid Digital Signature service.
Respecting privacy - eSign ensure the privacy of the consumer by submitting only the thumbprint (hash) of the document for signature function instead of whole document.
Secure online service - The eSign Service is governed by e-authentication guidelines. While authentication of the signer is carried out using Aadhaar e-KYC, the signature on the document is carried out on a backend server, which is the e-Sign provider. eSign services are offered by trusted third party service provider, currently Certifying Authority. To enhance the security and prevent misuse, certificate holder private keys are created on Hardware Security Module (HSM) and destroyed immediately after one time usage.
e-Sign Working
eSign API and Gateway - eSign Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) define the major architectural components and also describe the format and elements of communication among the stake holders like Application Service Provider, Certifying Authorities, Trusted Third parties, Aadhaar e-KYC service and Application Gateway. This Standard eSign enable Application Service Providers to integrate eSign API in their Application with less effort. CDAC is functioning as eSign Gateway provider.
e-Sign Uses
eSign have flexible subscription Model for individual users, business entities and Governments. eSign based on OTP (optionally with PIN) level authentication is suitable where risks and consequences of data compromise are low but they are not considered to be of major significance. eSign based on Biometric (Fingerprint/Iris) level authentication ideal for and risks and consequences of data compromise are moderate. This may include transactions having substantial monetary value or risk of fraud, or involving access to private information where the likelihood of malicious access is substantial.
DigiLocker
DigiLocker offers a dedicated personal storage space, linked to each resident’s Aadhaar number. DigiLocker can be used to securely store e-documents as well as store Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) link of e-documents issued by various issuer departments. The e-Sign facility provided as part of DigiLocker system can be used to digitally sign e-documents.
The DigiLocker can be accessible via web portal or mobile application.
Key components of DigiLocker
Each resident’s DigiLocker account has the following sections:
Dashboard – This section is the first page you see when you login and shows a summary of all your documents.
Issued Documents – This section shows the URIs (links) of the documents or certificates issued to you by the Govt. department or other agencies participating in DigiLocker.
Uploaded Documents – This section shows all the documents which are uploaded by you. You can update the document type, eSign and share these uploaded documents.
Shared Documents – This sections shows the list of documents which you share with others (via email).
Activity – This section is a log of the activities you performed in you DigiLocker account. The log included the details about the activities such as file upload, download, eSign etc.
Issuers – This section lists the departments and agencies that are registered on DigiLocker as Issuers. If these departments have issued any document/certificate to you, it will appear in the form of a URI (link) in your Issued Documents section.
How to Use For Residents
To login, one need to enter your mobile number on the login field.
A One Time Password (OTP) will be sent to the mobile number.
Enter the OTP in the required field followed by selecting a username & password. This will create your DigiLocker account.
After your DigiLocker account is successfully created, you can voluntarily provide your Aadhaar number (issued by UIDAI) to avail additional services.
On completion of the above, residents can view the URIs of e-Documents which have been uploaded into the Digital Locker by various issuers.
Resident can also upload e-documents in their Digital Locker and eSign them.
Residents can share private documents with requesters by sharing a link to the e-Document to the email address of the requester.
Once the above process is completed successfully, you can sign in to your Digital Locker account with Aadhaar OTP or entering Username & Passward or Sign in with Social Media accounts.
For Issuers
An Issuer needs to register on Digital Locker System to get a unique Issuer ID.
Once an ID is assigned, Issuer can upload the documents in a standard XML format in the designated repository using repository service provider API.
Each document uploaded in their pository will have unique URI comprising of Issuer ID, Document Type and Document ID. The document URI will be pushed to the concerned resident’s Digital Locker based on his/her Aadhaar number.
For Requesters
A Requester needs to first register with an access gateway to on board Digital Locker system.
A Requester can use document URIs (Uniform Resource Identifier) to securely retrieve the documents from the repository through an access gateway
What are the different components of a resident’s digital locker?
Each resident’s digital locker has the following sections:
i. My Certificates: this section comprises of two sub sections
a. Digital Documents- which contains URI (links) of the documents issued to the resident by the Govt. department or other agencies. Each document will have the following information
URI
Document Name
Issued Date
Share option
b. Uploaded Documents- List of all the documents which are uploaded by the resident can be viewed in this subsection. Each document will have the following information
Document Name
Uploaded Date
Status: to indicate whether the document is eSigned or not.
Action: to remove or delete a document from the digital locker.
Details
Share: to share the uploaded document via email
DigiSign option: once a document is eSigned it is shown as ‘√’
ii. My Profile
This section displays the complete profile of the resident (Name, Date of Birth, Gender, Residential Address, email, mobile number) as available in the UIDAI database.
iii. My Issuer
This section displays the Issuer name and the number of documents issued to the resident by the issuer.
iv. My Requester
This section displays the Requester name and the number of documents requested from the resident by the requester.
v. Directories
This section displays the complete list of registered Issuers and Requesters along with their URL.
How can I upload a document in my digital locker?
Upload documents facility is available under ‘My Certificates’ section.
You need to first select a document type (SSC Certificate, HSC Certificate, PAN card, Voter ID card, etc.) from a drop down list.
Provide a name for the document
Based on the document type selected, you need to fill in the other details relevant to the document.
Choose the file from your local machine to be uploaded to digital locker. Each file to be uploaded should not be more than 1MB [1 MB is the maximum size of the file] in size and only pdf, jpg, jpeg, png, bmp and gif file types are allowed
Provide Description of the document (max 50 characters)
Click ‘Upload’ button.
On successful upload, the document will be listed under ‘Uploaded Documents’ subsection.
How can I share the e-documents in my digital locker?
For sharing your e-document (mentioned as URI under ‘Digital Documents’ subsection or under ‘Uploaded Documents’ subsection) you need to click on ‘Share’ link provided against the document you would like to share.
A dialog box will pop up. Please enter the email address of the recipient in the dialog box and click ‘Share’ button.
The document will be shared with the recipient via email. The recipient will receive an email from ‘no-reply@digitallocker.gov.in’. The subject line of the email will mention the document name and document type. The email body will have the URI link of the document and the sender name and Aadhaar number.
The recipient can access the document using the URI link provided in the email.
How it is going to help?
It will minimize the use of physical documents and will provide authenticity of the e-documents. It will provide secure access to Govt. issued documents. It will also reduce administrative overhead of Govt. departments and agencies and make it easy for the residents to receive services.
E-hospital
Online Registration System (ORS) is an online portal were citizens having Aadhaar can enrol for appointments in hospitals across various States and Union Territories of India. Through this service, getting an OPD appointment, lab reports and blood availability in any government hospital has become online and easy. As on September 2016, 46 hospitals covering 478 departments provide this service.
How does it work
Online Registration System (ORS) is being implemented in hospitals where counter based Out Patient Department (OPD) registration and appointment system through Hospital Management Information System (HMIS) has been digitized.
Portal facilitates online appointments with various departments of different Hospitals as follows
- Using e-Know Your Customer (eKYC) data of Aadhaar number, if patient's mobile number is registered with Unique Idendification Authority of India (UIDAI).
- In case mobile number is not registered with UIDAI it uses patient's name.
- New Patient will get appointment as well as Unique Health Identification (UHID) number. If Aadhaar number is already linked with UHID number, then appointment number will be given and UHID will remain same.
Features
- Simple appointment process - For your first visit to hospital, registration and appointment with doctor is made simpler. All you have to do is verify yourself using Aadhaar Number, Select Hospital and Department, Select date of Appointment and receive SMS for Appointment.
- Dashboard Reports - Total number of Hospitals for which appointment can be taken through web along with their departments for which online appointment can be taken can be seen in reports. Detail reports showing information about New and Old patients taking appointment through this portal can be seen.
- Hospital On Boarding - Hospitals can come on board this platform and provide their appointment slots for online booking by patients. The system facilitates Hospitals to easily manage their registration and appointment process and monitor them
Requirements for getting online appointment
New patient requires aadhaar number with registered mobile number. System will get personal details of the patient using eKYC data from UIDAI.
In case patient has aadhaar number but mobile number is not registered with it, then name of the patient appearing in aadhaar card must be known. After verification, patient needs to enter other personal details.
In case, patient does not have aadhaar number then personal mobile number, name, father name, mother name etc need to be entered.
Process to take appointment for a new patient
- Visit the portal http://ors.gov.in/copp/appointment.jsp
- If you have Aadhaar number of the patient and patient's mobile number is registered with UIDAI, then One Time PIN (OTP) will be sent by UIDAI through SMS and Aadhaar holder would need to give consent to share his/her KYC data as stored in UIDAI with the hospital for the purpose of taking OPD appointment.
- In case patient's mobile number is not registered with UIDAI then patient's name as in Aadhaar needs to be given and after doing demographic authentication with UIDAI, patient will be requested to give a mobile number and other details like address, age etc.
- In case, user is not having aadhaar number, he can do online appointment but would have to collect OPD card from the hospital after providing identity of the patient.
- User can select the Department in a Government hospital where patient needs to visit for check-up
- Thereafter, user will be sent a confirmation through SMS giving details of OPD appointment.
Simple steps to get your appointment fixed online!
- Verify yourself using Aadhaar Number
- Choose Hospital / Department
- Select date of appointment
- Get confirmation SMS
For queries, please write to helpdesk-orf@gov.in
The Indian IT Industry has predominantly been a service Industry. However, a need has been felt to move up the value chain through technology oriented products and services.
To create a robust software product ecosystem the Government has approved the National Policy on Software Products - 2019, which aims to develop India as the global software product hub, driven by innovation, improved commercialisation, sustainable Intellectual Property (IP), promoting technology startups and specialized skill sets. Further, the Policy aims to align with other Government initiatives such as Start-up India, Make in India and Digital India, Skill India etc so as to create Indian Software products Industry of USD ~70-80 billion with direct & indirect employment of ~3.5 million by 2025.
Vision
To develop India as a Software Product Nation and a global leader in conception, design, development and production of intellectual capital driven Software Products, thus, accelerating growth of entire spectrum of IT Industry of the country.
Missions
- To promote the creation of a sustainable Indian software product industry, driven by intellectual property (IP), leading to a ten-fold increase in share of the Global Software product market by 2025.
- To nurture 10,000 technology startups in software product industry, including 1000 such technology startups in Tier-II and Tier-III towns & cities and generating direct and in-direct employment for 3.5 million people by 2025.
- To create a talent pool for software product industry through
- up-skilling of 1,000,000 IT professionals,
- motivating 100,000 school and college students and
- specialise 10,000 professionals that can provide leadership.
- To build a cluster-based innovation driven ecosystem by developing 20 sectoral and strategically located software product development clusters having integrated ICT infrastructure, marketing, incubation, R&D/test beds and mentoring support.
- In order to evolve and monitor schemes & programmes for the implementation of this policy, National Software Products Mission will be set up with participation from Government, Academia and Industry. V
Strategies
- Promoting Software Products Business Ecosystem
- An Indian Software product registry will be created through industry ownership. This will act as a common pool of Indian Software Products thereby providing a trusted trade environment.
- A conducive environment will be created in order to facilitate active participation of software companies in Capital Market.
- A Single Window platform will be established for facilitation of Indian software product industry in fast-tracking legal and regulatory issues regarding (i) import and export and (ii) opening and closure of software product enterprises.
- A classification system for Indian software products will be evolved through a model HS code. The model HS code will be further sub categorized based on the type of software products, its inter-linkages with other economic sectors, including services and hardware manufacturing. Such model classification will facilitate tracking and easing of export of such products. This will also help in evolving statistical data for further promotion of specific sectoral software products.
- The Indian Software Product Companies will be allowed to set off tax payable, if any, on the investments made (on an accrued basis) in R&D of indigenous software products.
- Promoting Entrepreneurship & Innovation for Employment
- In order to create a conducive ecosystem, a programme of incubation will be initiated to nurture at least 10,000 software product startups, thereby generating direct and indirect employment for 1 million persons. 1000 of these startups shall be targeted to be set up in Tier-II and Tier-III town & cities. The programme will provide (i) Technical & Infrastructure assistance, (ii) Mentoring Support, (iii) Seed Fund, (iv) R&D & Testing facilities (v) Marketing and Branding support.
- A dedicated Software Product Development Fund (SPDF) with a corpus of Rs. 1000 Crore will be created in the form of Fund of Funds. SPDF will participate in venture fund to provide risk capital so as to promote scaling up of market ready Software Products. The fund will fill the gap between the capital requirements of technology and knowledge based software product startup enterprises and funding available from traditional institutional lenders such as banks. This scheme will create a corpus of Rs. 5000 Crore with an end target to have at latest 100 Indian software product companies having valuation of Rs. 500 Crore or employing 200 persons. The SPDF will be financially managed by a professional Financial Institution/ Asset Management Company as per SEBI guidelines. Spin off effect of such activity would create other support services and further employment.
- A Programme to support Research and Innovation on Software Products in Institutes of Higher Learning and Research will be initiated with a budgetary outlay of Rs. 500 Crore with participation from Government, Academia and Industry. The objective of the programme is to bridge the existing gaps in the Industry-Academia research and facilitate development of novel, high quality affordable software products through research and innovation. Financial support in form of a Grant-in-aid will be provided to Indian MSMEs and start-ups for undertaking such collaborative research with academic/ research institutes leading to IP development. To ensure that such research outcomes are absorbed in participating MSMEs businesses a matching fund from such applicants will be a pre-requisite for government grant. An expert organisation having established capabilities to professionally manage innovation and research leading to commercial translation will be identified to operationalise the fund.
- A programme for organising 20 dedicated challenge grants will also be initiated with an aim to solve societal challenges, such as in Education, Healthcare, Sanitation, Agriculture, persons with special needs (Divyangjan) etc in collaboration with line Ministries, state governments and Industry Bodies/ Think Tanks. The Research fund will also support such challenge grants/ hackathons for identifying software product solutions for societal challenges.
- A Programme to create 20 domain specific Indian software product clusters around existing industry concentrations, such as in automobile, textile, financial services, electronic manufacturing, energy etc will be initiated. These clusters will have integrated ICT infrastructure, marketing, incubation, R&D/test beds and mentoring facilities. Technical and financial support will be extended up to 500 technology companies so as to achieve global foot print.
- A Centre of Excellence will be set up to promote design and development of software products with industry participation.
- A common upgradable infrastructure will be created to support startups and software product designers to identify and plug cyber vulnerability.
- Skilling and Human Resource Development
- For catering to large scale requirement of trained manpower in futuristic technologies, a FutureSkills programme has been initiated for up-skilling/re-skilling of 3 million IT Professionals in emerging technologies. For creating a talent pool of 1 million IT professionals with competencies required for IP driven software products, a special emphasis on modules related to software products will be added into the programme. This will be implemented through (i) modification in existing course curriculum, (ii) short term training programme, (iii) national competency tests in consultation with the industry. The programme will be implemented in partnership with educational institutes, both public and private, identified industry bodies and the National Skill Development Mission.
- A national "Talent Accelerator" programme targeting, 100,000 school and college students, will be initiated for motivating young talent for software product development.
- A talent pool of 10,000 committed software product leaders will be created that can meet the distinct skill set requirement for the sector to move up the value chain for developing technology and intellectual capital for product industry and will be suitably interlinked with the mentor pool for software products incubators and clusters.
- Improving Access to Domestic Market and Cross Border Trade Promotion
- The registry of Indian software products will be integrated with Government e-market (GeM) and will also provide necessary handholding for marketing support.
- Indian Product Startups / MSMEs will be encouraged to develop solutions for Smart Cities, healthcare, agriculture, e-learning, transport, fin-tech and addressing social challenges, such as, bridging digital divide, gender inequality, empowering the less privileged citizens and divyangjans. A series of hackathons will be organised to identify such startups / MSMEs, who will be suitably rewarded on successful development.
- Implementation of open APIs will be proactively promoted both for public and private sector to foster incremental innovation and to encourage inter-operability in Indian software products ecosystem.
- An enabling framework will be developed for preferential inclusion of Indian software product in Government procurement in line with the Public Procurement (Preference to Make in India), Order 2017.
- Special focus to Indian Software Products will be provided in international trade development programmes by:
- Integrating Indian software products in India’s foreign aid programmes.
- Providing opportunities and access under the various market development assistance programmes to showcase innovative products and solutions in important events, exhibitions, trade fairs etc.
- Setting-up of specialized infrastructure in India and abroad for Software Product development so as to enhance presence of Indian Innovation in global markets.
- Industry will be encouraged and incentivised to develop products to overcome language barriers across major Indian Languages and to create technological bridges between them and major international languages including English.
Implementation Mechanism
The Government shall establish a "National Software Product Mission (NSPM)" to be housed in Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) under a Joint Secretary, with participation from Government, Academia and Industry.
The broad objectives of the mission will be as follows:-
- Design appropriate strategy for development of the software product industry to ensure optimum utilization of its potential and to establish India as a global Software Product Hub.
- Recommend specific policy measures to ensure an enabling ecosystem for design, development, innovation, value addition, (take other words from Vision), based on use of ICT.
- Recommend specific initiatives to be undertaken to tap the full potential of the domestic and the international markets for the Software product industry.
- Monitor and collate various initiatives taken under this policy with an aim to create 3.5 million employment opportunities and boost software products revenue tenfold by 2025.
- Facilitate various Government agencies and other bodies in promotion of Software Products, specific to the various programmes envisaged under this policy.
- Encourage States to participate in programmes and promote Indian Software Products in line with this policy.
- Monitor SPDF, Research & Innovation Fund.
- Take any other measures as may be required in the context.
The Policy will be implemented by MeitY through initiation of appropriate programmes & schemes, as per recommendation of NSPM, in which MeitY’s organizations, such as, Software Technology Parks of India(STPI) shall play a lead role besides Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), National Informatics Centre(NIC), Industry/ Industry bodies and Institutes of Higher Education & Research.
Expenditure involved
Initially, an outlay of Rs.1500 Crore is involved to implement the programmes/ schemes envisaged under this policy over the period of 7 years. Rs 1500 Crore is divided into Software Product Development Fund (SPDF) and Research & Innovation fund.
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