Deep Dive

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 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 Deep Dive — Saturday | June 06, 2026 L6 — Governance & Grievance India’s governance and grievance redressal infrastructure — the administrative nervous system connecting citizens to the state — saw an eventful week. From the launch of an AI-powered voice chatbot on CPGRAMS to the announcement of the National Awards for e-Governance and fresh data on grievance disposal volumes, the L6 layer is clearly accelerating its digital transformation. Here are the five stories that mattered most. ...

DPI Deep Dive — Friday | June 05, 2026 Layer L5: Sectoral Infrastructure — ABHA, AgriStack, eCourts & AI in the Judiciary This week’s sectoral DPI layer saw three major developments spanning health identity, agricultural data infrastructure, and judicial technology — each reinforcing India’s ambition to build sector-specific digital public infrastructure that interoperates with the foundational layers of identity, payments, and data exchange. 1. ABHA Crosses 90 Crore: India’s Digital Health Identity Hits a Global Scale On May 30, the National Health Authority (NHA) announced that the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) has surpassed 90 crore (900 million) ABHA registrations — making it one of the largest digital health identity platforms in the world. 1 2 ...

DPI Deep Dive — Thursday | June 04, 2026 L4 — Commerce & Logistics: ONDC, GeM This week’s deep dive examines India’s Commerce & Logistics digital infrastructure layer, where two landmark developments signal a decisive shift in the country’s digital commerce architecture. ONDC’s ₹220 crore fundraise from blue-chip strategic investors marks the network’s transition from pilot to national infrastructure, while GeM’s expanding footprint — from a new portal overhaul to conservation-linked community commerce — showcases the maturation of government procurement digitisation. ...

DPI Deep Dive — Wednesday | June 03, 2026 India’s L3 Digital Public Infrastructure — the layer of Documents and Data Exchange — had an eventful week (May 28 – June 3, 2026). From DigiLocker powering university admissions at scale to ABHA crossing 90 crore accounts, and new UPI security mandates that reshape data-sharing in payments, the document and data exchange rails underpinning India Stack continue to deepen their reach. Here are the five stories that defined the week. ...

DPI Deep Dive — Tuesday | June 02, 2026 Layer Focus: L2 — Payments & Financial Rails (NPCI, UPI, RuPay) A weekly deep dive into developments across India’s payments and financial infrastructure layer, tracking UPI, NPCI policy, RuPay, and the evolving digital payments ecosystem. 1. UPI Smashes All-Time Record: 23.20 Billion Transactions in May 2026 India’s Unified Payments Interface has shattered its own record yet again. NPCI data released on June 1 shows UPI processed 23.20 billion transactions worth ₹29.90 lakh crore in May 2026 — a 24% year-on-year jump in volume and 19% in value compared to May 2025. ...

DPI Deep Dive — Saturday | May 20, 2026 Introduction Saturday marks the seventh and final layer in India’s Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) framework: Governance & Grievance Redressal. This layer encompasses the systems, platforms, and processes through which citizens interact with government, lodge complaints, access services, and participate in democratic governance. From DARPG’s administrative reforms to CPGRAMS’ grievance redressal mechanisms, and eOffice’s digital workflow systems, governance DPI forms the backbone of citizen-state interaction. ...

DPI Deep Dive — Friday | May 15, 2026 Executive Summary Friday’s DPI Deep Dive examines L5 Sectoral Infrastructure—the critical foundation that connects India’s digital identity, payments, and governance to sector-specific services in healthcare, agriculture, and justice. This week reveals a decisive shift from fragmented sectoral initiatives toward integrated DPI ecosystems that bridge health, nutrition, and agriculture through the new SEHAT Mission. Three developments stand out: SEHAT Mission — ICAR and ICMR launch a national programme linking agriculture, nutrition, and public health ITCMAARS AI Platform — ITC’s digital agriculture platform expands to 70 crops with AI-powered disease identification ICRISAT-Rajasthan Partnership — Strategic alliance to transform dryland agriculture through climate-resilient millet systems These developments signal India’s move from siloed sectoral digital infrastructure toward integrated “health-food-justice” ecosystems where ABHA health IDs, agricultural data, and court records flow seamlessly across domains. ...

DPI Deep Dive — Saturday | May 9, 2026 Focus Layer: Saturday (L6 Governance & Grievance) Coverage Period: May 2-9, 2026 Executive Summary India embarked on its first-ever fully digital population census with the nationwide rollout of Census 2027 self-enumeration. Launched on May 1, 2026, the digital initiative has already seen strong participation across 10+ states and union territories, with over 82,000 self-enumeration entries recorded in Maharashtra alone on day one. This marks a paradigm shift in how India conducts one of its largest administrative exercises, moving from paper-based enumeration to an online-first citizen engagement model. ...