DPI Brief — June 30, 2026

mAadhaar Retires, UIDAI Launches New Aadhaar App (L1 — Identity)

The mAadhaar app was officially retired on June 30, 2026, marking the end of an era for the original Aadhaar mobile application. UIDAI has replaced it with a new Aadhaar App available at pehchaan.uidai.gov.in, featuring QR-based Aadhaar sharing, faster access to services, and improved privacy controls. The transition aligns with UIDAI’s broader push to modernise identity infrastructure ahead of the Digital India programme’s 11th anniversary. Starting July 1, UIDAI will also offer free email ID updates via the new app through December 2026.

Aarogya Setu 2.0: From Pandemic Tracker to Digital Health Platform (L5 — Sectoral)

Union Health Minister JP Nadda launched Aarogya Setu 2.0 on June 29, transforming the COVID-19 contact-tracing app into a comprehensive Personal Health Record (PHR) application under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM). With nearly 20 crore existing downloads, the revamped app now provides ABDM-enabled services including ABHA creation, health record management, and scan-and-share digital registration. Key features include AI-powered digitisation of medical records (lab reports, PDFs, images), personalised health dashboards, wearable-device synchronisation, PM-JAY wallet integration, and a GPS-based facility search. Alongside Aarogya Setu 2.0, Nadda also launched the Ayushman Sarathi PM-JAY WhatsApp chatbot, the Unified Health Interface (UHI) for connecting patients and providers, and eSushrut@Clinic — a hospital management system for small clinics developed by C-DAC.

UPI Expands to Seychelles as 10th International Destination (L2 — Payments)

India and Seychelles signed an MoU on June 28, 2026 between NPCI International Payments Ltd and the Central Bank of Seychelles, making the island nation the 10th country to adopt UPI. The agreement was part of a landmark visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi that yielded 19 MoUs across defence, digital payments, healthcare, and education, along with a ₹1,250 crore Line of Credit. UPI now accounts for nearly 49% of the world’s real-time digital payment transactions, having processed 24,162 crore transactions worth ₹314 lakh crore in FY 2025-26 — an average of 66 crore transactions daily. May 2026 alone saw 23.20 billion transactions worth ₹29.90 lakh crore.

Digital India Completes 11 Years; UN Lauds India’s DPI Ecosystem (L6/L7 — Governance & Trust)

As the Digital India programme prepares to mark its 11th anniversary on July 1, MeitY highlighted the programme’s evolution from a digital-access mission to a frontier-technology initiative anchored in AI and semiconductors. The Press Information Bureau noted that India has built one of the world’s largest DPI ecosystems — spanning Aadhaar, UPI, DigiLocker, and GeM — now exported to multiple countries. MeitY plans a “Bharat DPI Centre” to showcase India Stack and train Global South governments, targeting DPI adoption in 60+ countries within five years. Separately, on Statistics Day 2026 (June 29), UN Resident Coordinator praised India’s DPI ecosystem as offering “huge opportunities” for data-driven governance, while PM’s Principal Secretary Saurabh Garg highlighted how India’s administrative data is becoming a strategic national asset powered by AI and digital infrastructure.

ONDC Crosses 20 Crore Buyers, 5 Lakh Sellers (L4 — Commerce)

The Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) has expanded to over 20 crore buyers and 5 lakh sellers by June 2026, according to a PIB press release. The government-backed network, designed to break e-commerce monopolies by enabling interoperable buyer-seller discovery across platforms, continues to scale rapidly in sectors including food delivery, grocery, fashion, and financial services. The network’s growth underscores the viability of open, protocol-based commerce as an alternative to walled-garden marketplace models.

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