Deep Dive

DPI Deep Dive — Friday | July 25, 2026 This week’s Layer 5 deep dive covers India’s sectoral digital public infrastructure — health (ABHA/ABDM), agriculture (PM-KUSUM, AgriStack adjacents), and judiciary (eCourts). The past seven days have been remarkably active across all three verticals. 1. ABHA Crosses 940 Million IDs: India’s Digital Health Backbone at BRICS At the 16th BRICS Health Ministers’ Meeting in Chandigarh (July 21–24), Union Health Secretary Smt. Punya Salila Srivastava presented India’s digital health infrastructure to an international audience. The numbers are staggering: over 940 million ABHA (Ayushman Bharat Health Account) IDs have been created, and more than 1 billion (100 crore) health records are now digitally linked through the system. Over 1 million healthcare professionals have been issued unique digital identities, and 5.33 lakh health facilities are registered on the platform. 1 ...

DPI Deep Dive — Friday | July 24, 2026 Layer L5: Sectoral Infrastructure — ABHA & Digital Health, AgriStack, eCourts This week’s sectoral DPI layer saw significant movement across health, agriculture, and judiciary. India is hosting the BRICS Health Ministerial with digital health as a centrepiece, NHA conducted a major national review of ABDM, AgriStack-ULI convergence with land records accelerated, and the Supreme Court’s draft AI regulations for courts approached finalisation. Here’s the deep dive. ...

DPI Deep Dive — Wednesday | July 22, 2026 This week’s L3 Deep Dive covers Documents & Data Exchange — the layer that turns India’s digital identity and payment rails into something you can actually use: verified credentials, paperless academic records, and machine-readable data flows between government systems. DigiLocker, NAD, APAAR, e-Sanad, and API Setu form the connective tissue of India Stack, and the past seven days have seen significant activity across these platforms. ...

DPI Deep Dive — Monday | July 20, 2026 India’s identity layer had a remarkably active week. UIDAI pushed the Aadhaar App past a major download milestone, waived fees for email updates, expanded its offline verification framework to law enforcement in the Northeast, inaugurated new Aadhaar Seva Kendras across underserved districts, and saw its authentication infrastructure adopted by a major health insurance TPA. Here’s a deep dive into the five most significant developments in the Identity & Authentication layer from July 13–20, 2026. ...

DPI Deep Dive — Sunday | July 19, 2026 This week in India’s Security, Privacy & Trust layer (L7): a nuclear plant data breach sends shockwaves through critical infrastructure defences, CERT-In weaponises AI for cyber defence, BFSI sector gets a new threat playbook, and TRAI escalates its battle against spam-call apps. Here are the five biggest developments. 1. Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant Breach: Supply Chain Becomes the Attack Vector The most alarming cybersecurity incident of the week — and possibly the year — broke on July 15 when ransomware group World Leaks posted over 19,000 files on the dark web allegedly linked to India’s largest nuclear power plant at Kudankulam, Tamil Nadu. The documents, reportedly including engineering blueprints for Units 3 and 4, supplier details, and infrastructure records, were labelled as originating from Reliance Group, a contractor for the plant’s expansion. ...

DPI Deep Dive — Saturday | July 18, 2026 Layer L6: Governance & Grievance — DARPG, CPGRAMS, eOffice, eCourts, RTI, Digital Policing 1. e-Zero FIR Expands to 10+ States: ₹25,000 Crore in Cyber Fraud Prevented India’s automated e-Zero FIR system—first launched as a Delhi pilot in May 2025—has now been rolled out to at least 10 states and union territories: Delhi, Haryana, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, Chandigarh, West Bengal, Rajasthan, and Assam. The system automatically converts cyber financial crime complaints with losses exceeding ₹10 lakh, filed via the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal (NCRP) or the 1930 helpline, into Zero FIRs registered at Delhi’s e-Crime Police Station, which are then routed to the relevant territorial jurisdiction. ...

DPI Deep Dive — Thursday | July 16, 2026 Layer: L4 — Commerce & Logistics | ONDC, GeM, and the digitisation of India’s trade infrastructure India’s commerce and logistics layer of its Digital Public Infrastructure stack had an eventful week. From Uber doubling down on ONDC-powered B2B logistics and metro ticketing expansion, to the government mandating GeM portal procurement for newspapers and magazines across all ministries, and the continued broadening of ONDC’s transit and logistics network — the week of July 9–16, 2026, underscored how open digital rails are steadily rewiring how India buys, sells, and moves goods. ...

DPI Deep Dive — Wednesday | July 15, 2026 Layer L3: Documents & Data Exchange — DigiLocker, API Setu, Entity Locker, eSign, and the national data-sharing infrastructure that connects India’s digital governance stack. 1. Bharat Health Terminology Service (BHTS) Launch — India Finally Speaks One Medical Language On July 6, Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda launched the Bharat Health Terminology Service (BHTS) and the Common Lab Codes for India (CLCI) — two platforms developed by the National Resource Centre for EHR Standards (NRCeS) at C-DAC Pune, under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) framework. 1 ...

DPI Deep Dive — Sunday | July 12, 2026 L7: Security, Privacy & Trust — This Sunday’s deep dive examines the intersection of cybersecurity enforcement, data privacy regulation, and consumer trust infrastructure in India’s Digital Public Infrastructure ecosystem. 1. TRAI vs Truecaller: When Regulating Spam Erodes Consumer Trust In what has become the most significant consumer trust confrontation in India’s telecom governance this year, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and caller ID platform Truecaller locked horns over the regulator’s anti-spam framework — exposing deep tensions between top-down regulatory design and bottom-up user behaviour. ...

DPI Deep Dive — Saturday | July 11, 2026 Layer L6: Governance & Grievance — DARPG, CPGRAMS, eOffice, and the Digital Government Backbone This week, India’s digital governance layer saw a flurry of landmark developments — from the adoption of the Jaipur Declaration at the 29th National Conference on e-Governance to the empanelment of six AI firms for government deployments, the launch of an AI-powered pension grievance portal, NIC’s first sovereign AI data centre, and sustained CPGRAMS grievance disposal volumes. Together, these signal a decisive shift from piloting AI in government to embedding it as core infrastructure for citizen services. ...