Digital Public Infrastructure

Digital India DPI Brief — March 8, 2026 Stack Layers Active Today: L1 Identity, L3 Data Exchange, L4 Commerce, L6 Governance, L7 Regulatory LAYER 1: Identity & Authentication Paperless Aadhaar Enrollment Available Paperless Aadhaar enrollment process now available via myaadhaar.uidai.gov.in. Enhanced face authentication options being rolled out. Source: UIDAI Portal | https://myaadhaar.uidai.gov.in NEET 2026 Registration Requires Aadhaar eKYC NEET (UG) 2026 registration opens today with mandatory Aadhaar-based eKYC for candidate verification. Systems using DigiLocker integration. ...

Public Money, Private Architecture: Inside India’s Digital Infrastructure Black Holes Originally published as a series of Twitter threads between March–May 2020 Over the past few weeks, I’ve been doing reading sessions on two critical pillars of India’s digital governance architecture — the Nandan Nilekani PDS Task Force report that first mooted the idea of PDSN, and the PM-CARES / PMNRF accountability vacuum that emerged during the COVID-19 crisis. What connects them is a single, disturbing pattern: public money flowing through privately-architected structures that evade every democratic accountability mechanism — RTI, CAG, CVC, parliamentary questions. ...