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Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) and India Stack

India has pursued a strategy of building shared, interoperable Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) — open platforms available to all citizens, governments, and private players. India Stack comprises Aadhaar (identity), UPI (payments), DigiLocker (document repository), CoWIN (vaccination), ONDC (commerce), and Parivahan (transport) — among others. Consolidating state apps onto these national DPIs reduces fragmentation and enables data interoperability.

Key details

DigiLocker: National digital locker service where citizens store Aadhaar, DL, RC, marksheets, and other documents; legally valid under IT Act; integrated with Parivahan for DL/RC retrieval
Aadhaar-seeded transport records: Vahan/Sarathi linked to Aadhaar to reduce duplicate licences and enable universal service access
State-level apps often create data silos — different formats, different APIs, poor inter-state data sharing; national platforms solve the interoperability problem
India's DPI approach has been recognised globally (G20 DPI framework, 2023) as a model for other countries; India has been actively promoting its DPI stack to the Global South
Government's digital governance vision: "One Nation, One System" for key services — GST (taxes), FASTag (tolling), Parivahan (transport), PM Poshan (education), Ayushman Bharat (health)

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