Deep Dive

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. ...

DPI Deep Dive — Thursday | July 10, 2026 India’s Commerce & Logistics DPI layer — built around ONDC (Open Network for Digital Commerce) and GeM (Government e-Marketplace) — had a remarkable week. From the first international deployment of ONDC’s architecture in Indonesia, to AI-powered procurement automation on GeM, to grassroots ONDC onboarding in Jammu & Kashmir’s districts, the layer is simultaneously scaling globally, modernizing domestically, and penetrating deep into India’s hinterlands. Here are the five most consequential developments from July 3–10, 2026. ...

DPI Deep Dive — Thursday | July 09, 2026 Layer L4: Commerce & Logistics — ONDC, GeM, and India’s Digital Commerce Stack This week’s Commerce & Logistics layer saw one of the most significant geopolitical validation moments for India’s DPI model: Indonesia officially launching its own ONDC-inspired open commerce network during PM Modi’s state visit to Jakarta. Back home, ONDC continued its exponential growth trajectory, crossing major milestones in buyer adoption and network reach, while GeM participated in the Vibrant Gujarat Regional Conferences and crossed ₹18.4 lakh crore in cumulative procurement value. ...

DPI Deep Dive — Wednesday | July 08, 2026 Layer L3: Documents & Data Exchange (DigiLocker, API Setu, eSign) This week marked a watershed moment for India’s Documents & Data Exchange layer. The 11th anniversary of Digital India on July 1 brought a flood of milestone statistics, while two major governance launches — FCRA 2.0 and e-OCI — demonstrated how deeply document infrastructure now penetrates regulatory workflows. Simultaneously, Aarogya Setu’s rebirth as a health data exchange platform and UIDAI’s push for email-linked authentication signals a maturing ecosystem moving beyond storage to intelligent, consent-driven data flows. ...

DPI Deep Dive — Tuesday | July 07, 2026 L2: Payments & Financial Rails — NPCI, UPI, RuPay This week, India’s payments layer witnessed a flurry of landmark developments: UPI went live in its 10th country, NPCI struck landmark partnerships with global banks for real-time FX settlement, its CEO was inducted into SWIFT’s supervisory board, and June transaction data confirmed UPI’s continued double-digit growth trajectory. Here are the five most significant developments from the past seven days. ...

DPI Deep Dive — Monday | July 06, 2026 Theme: L1 — Identity & Authentication (UIDAI, Aadhaar, eKYC) This week’s L1 deep dive is dominated by a single watershed moment: UIDAI’s retirement of the mAadhaar app and the launch of its successor. But beneath that headline lies a layered story of state governments weaponising Aadhaar eKYC for land records, regulatory ambiguity in how Section 7 of the Aadhaar Act applies to government certificates, and the approaching enforcement deadline of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act. Together, these developments reveal an identity infrastructure at an inflection point — more capable, more deeply embedded in governance, and more contested than ever. ...