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DPI Deep Dive — Thursday | June 11, 2026 India’s Commerce and Logistics layer (L4) of Digital Public Infrastructure had an action-packed week. From a ₹430 crore funding round for ONDC 2.0, a high-level ministerial review, the formation of a new Digital Commerce Coalition by private players, to GeM crossing ₹8.69 lakh crore in cumulative MSE procurement — the open commerce stack is accelerating. Here’s a deep dive into the five most significant developments. ...

DPI Brief — June 11, 2026 TRAI V2X Consultation: Telcos Push for Spectrum Auction Over Direct Allocation The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has kicked off a consultation on a framework for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication — and India’s leading telcos are already staking their claim. The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), representing Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, and Vodafone Idea, submitted its response this week arguing that V2X spectrum should be auctioned commercially under the “same service, same rules” principle, rather than specially allocated to automotive or technology firms. ...

DPI Deep Dive — Wednesday | June 10, 2026 Layer L3 — Documents & Data Exchange | DigiLocker · API Setu · eSign · NAD · National Government Cloud This week on the L3 Documents & Data Exchange layer, India continued to push deeper integration of its digital document infrastructure across education, postal services, governance, and legal-tech. The underlying theme: moving from standalone document digitisation to a connected, cloud-native, API-first data exchange ecosystem. Here are the five most significant developments from June 3–9, 2026. ...

DPI Brief — June 10, 2026 MeitY Pushes States to Adopt App-Based Aadhaar Verification for Citizen Services The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has written to Chief Secretaries of all states and Union Territories, urging them to adopt UIDAI’s recently launched app-based Aadhaar verification system for citizen-facing services. The recommended use cases span hotel and guest house registration, visitor management at government offices, hospital patient verification, and examination candidate checks. The system works via a QR code flow: the verifying entity generates a code, the citizen scans it using the Aadhaar app, and basic identity details (name, age, mobile number, photograph) are displayed on screen — eliminating the need for physical photocopies. This directly addresses documented fraud cases where Aadhaar photocopies collected on false pretences were used to obtain loans or purchase goods. Institutions adopting this system must register with UIDAI under the Aadhaar (Authentication and Offline Verification) Amendment Regulations, 2025, notified via Gazette on 9 December 2025. Delhi has already directed its police, Home Guards, forensic labs, courts, and fire services to adopt the mechanism, signalling early traction. ...

DPI Deep Dive — Tuesday | June 09, 2026 This week’s Tuesday deep dive focuses on Layer 2 — Payments & Financial Rails, covering NPCI, UPI, RuPay, the Digital Rupee (CBDC), and the evolving regulatory landscape. The past seven days (June 2–9, 2026) have been packed with milestones that signal India’s payments infrastructure is maturing rapidly — not just in scale, but in security, cross-border reach, and regulatory sophistication. 1. UPI Crosses 23.2 Billion Monthly Transactions, Touches ₹29.9 Trillion in May NPCI released the May 2026 data on June 2, and the numbers are staggering. UPI processed 23.2 billion transactions worth ₹29.9 trillion during the month — averaging 737.8 million transactions per day at a daily value of approximately ₹84,423 crore. This is a fresh all-time high, continuing the relentless month-on-month growth trajectory. ...

DPI Brief — June 09, 2026 1. UPI Goes Live in Cambodia — Ninth International Destination India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has formally gone live in Cambodia, making it the ninth country where Indian travellers can scan-and-pay using their existing UPI apps. The cross-border QR payment corridor was launched on June 2, 2026, in Phnom Penh through a partnership between NPCI International Payments Limited (NIPL) and ACLEDA Bank Plc., under the aegis of the Reserve Bank of India and the National Bank of Cambodia. ...

DPI Deep Dive — Monday | June 08, 2026 Layer L1: Identity & Authentication — This week we examine the evolving landscape of India’s foundational identity infrastructure: Aadhaar enrolment reforms, Google Wallet integration, AI-driven threats to biometric authentication, and the expanding cybercrime-fighting apparatus protecting 1.4 billion digital identities. 1. UIDAI’s Landmark Enrolment Rules Overhaul — Aadhaar (Enrolment and Update) First Amendment Regulations, 2026 The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has issued the Aadhaar (Enrolment and Update) First Amendment Regulations, 2026, marking the most significant update to Aadhaar’s documentation and enrolment framework in years. The amendment modernises rules that have remained largely static since the early days of the Aadhaar programme, expanding access while tightening procedural safeguards. ...

DPI Weekly Deep Dive — UPI Goes Global: From 23 Billion Monthly Transactions to 9 Countries | Week of June 1-7, 2026 Executive Summary The week of June 1-7, 2026 marks a watershed moment for India’s flagship Digital Public Infrastructure — the Unified Payments Interface (UPI). On June 2, NPCI released data showing UPI processed 23.2 billion transactions worth ₹29.90 lakh crore in May 2026, crossing the 23-billion monthly threshold for the first time. Just a day later, on June 3, NPCI International Payments Limited (NIPL) and Cambodia’s ACLEDA Bank launched UPI acceptance at over 4.5 million merchants across Cambodia through Bakong’s KHQR system, making Cambodia the ninth country to adopt UPI. 12 ...

DPI Deep Dive — Sunday | June 07, 2026 India’s security, privacy, and trust infrastructure — the invisible L7 layer that underpins every other DPI stack — had an eventful week. From a landmark CERT-In blueprint on AI-driven cyber threats to a high-profile education portal breach and a health-tech data exposure, this edition covers the critical developments that shape the trust fabric of India’s digital ecosystem. 1. CERT-In Releases Landmark AI Cybersecurity Blueprint — 12-Hour Patch Mandate Signals New Era CERT-In dropped its most consequential advisory in years: a 38-page “Blueprint for Reducing Exposure and Defending against AI-Assisted Vulnerabilities Exploitation in Digital Infrastructure”, released on May 25 and gaining widespread traction through the first week of June. 1 ...

DPI Brief — June 07, 2026 1. UPI Hits Record ₹29.9 Lakh Crore in May — L2 Payments UPI transactions surged to an all-time high in May 2026, processing 23.2 billion transactions worth ₹29.90 lakh crore (~US$312 billion), according to NPCI data. Volume rose 4% month-on-month from 22.35 billion in April, while value climbed 3% from ₹29.03 lakh crore. On a year-on-year basis, value grew 19% and volume 24%. Summer travel, IPL 2026 spending, and seasonal consumer activity drove the uptick after April saw a minor dip. PhonePe continued to dominate with 46.2% of transaction volume, while high-value transactions are increasingly shifting to credit-on-UPI — credit card transaction value has grown from ₹8.9 lakh crore in 2021 to ₹23.2 lakh crore in 2025. The trajectory keeps UPI on track to cross ₹30 lakh crore monthly in the near term. ...