Deep Dive

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. ...

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. ...