Blitz Bureau
New Delhi: India’s unique Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), which has transformed millions of lives, is now being replicated in several countries, the Centre has informed. Aadhaar, which is the world’s largest digital identity programme that provides biometric and demographic-based unique digital identity, has generated 138.04 crore IDs to date.
More than 30 crore users have been facilitated and 675 crore issued documents made available by DigiLocker, according to Jitin Prasada, Minister of State for Electronic and IT. He said in the Rajya Sabha that more than 1,388 crore financial transactions were processed through unified payments interface (UPI) in June alone.
Moreover, India has signed MoUs on cooperation in the field of sharing successful digital solutions implemented at population scale with 10 countries. These are Armenia, Sierra Leone, Suriname, Antigua and Barbuda, Papua New Guinea, Trinidad and Tobago, Tanzania, Kenya, Cuba and Colombia.