Deep Dive

DPI Deep Dive — Wednesday | June 17, 2026 India’s L3 layer — Documents & Data Exchange — had a particularly eventful week. From a nationwide scramble to meet the UGC’s June 30 academic record upload deadline on NAD-DigiLocker, to the opening of Census 2027’s self-enumeration portal, to India’s prominent role at UNESCAP’s Paperless Trade Week, the building blocks of paperless governance and cross-border data interoperability are accelerating simultaneously. Here’s a deep dive into the five most significant developments. ...

DPI Deep Dive — Tuesday | June 16, 2026 L2: Payments & Financial Rails — UPI’s Week of Global Expansion This week has been a watershed for India’s payments layer. UPI not only crossed 23.2 billion monthly transactions — a new all-time high — but also went live in three new countries simultaneously, while the RBI quietly rewrote the rulebook for how payment systems are licensed in India. Let’s unpack the five major developments. ...

DPI Deep Dive — Monday | June 15, 2026 Layer 1: Identity & Authentication — Covering UIDAI, Aadhaar, eKYC, and digital identity infrastructure developments from June 8–15, 2026. This week, India’s foundational identity layer saw significant movement on multiple fronts: a major app transition, a Centre-wide push for privacy-first verification, a contentious state-level enrolment ban, a landmark court ruling on SIM-swap fraud, and continued infrastructure expansion. Here are the stories that matter. ...

DPI Deep Dive — Sunday | June 14, 2026 Layer L7: Security, Privacy & Trust — This week’s deep dive examines the intersecting threats and regulatory responses shaping India’s digital trust infrastructure. From AI-powered identity fraud to ₹53,000 crore in cumulative cyber losses, from RBI-mandated cyber assessments to spectrum policy as safety infrastructure, the picture that emerges is of a nation simultaneously accelerating its digital ambitions and confronting the security debt that accompanies them. ...

DPI Deep Dive — Saturday | June 13, 2026 Layer L6 — Governance & Grievance | DARPG, CPGRAMS, e-Office, Sevottam 1. National e-Governance Awards 2026: Grievance Redressal Takes Centre Stage The Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) announced the winners of the National Awards for e-Governance (NAeG) 2026 this week — and the list reads like a manifesto for the future of citizen-centric governance. Seventeen projects across seven categories received recognition: 10 Gold, 6 Silver, and 1 Jury Award, with the formal ceremony set for the 29th National Conference on e-Governance (NCeG) in Jaipur on July 1–2, 2026. 1 ...

DPI Deep Dive — Friday | June 12, 2026 India’s Layer 5: Sectoral Digital Public Infrastructure — covering health (ABHA), agriculture (AgriStack), and justice (eCourts) — had a landmark week. From ABHA crossing 90 crore registrations to AgriStack winning a national e-governance gold medal to the Supreme Court releasing draft AI regulations for courts, this is the sectoral DPI layer firing on all cylinders. 1. ABHA Crosses 90 Crore — India’s Health ID Enters a New Phase The National Health Authority (NHA) announced on May 30 that the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) has issued over 90 crore (900 million) ABHA IDs, marking a significant inflection point for India’s digital health identity system.1 ...

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 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 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 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. ...