For Digital India Project revival, DEITY plans alternative authentication along with Aadhar
Several projects under Digital India program facing
challenges as supreme court restriction over Aadhar project continues
India: Supreme court has put a restriction on Aadhar
program which is hampering the progress of multiple crucial projects under the
program such as Digital Lockers. Therefore, the department of electronics and
information technology (DEITY) seeks an alternative way to revive some the
crucial projects.
As
per the government officials, DEITY is discussing alternative means for five
projects at present. For the Digital Locker project, authentication means such
as e-KYC (Know your customer) of a bank, PAN card, and digital signatures are
few options which are under consideration. Keeping in mind the Supreme court
mandate, DIETY has to give other options to the citizens considering some of
them might not have access to Aadhar.
Jeevan
Pramaan or Digital Life Certificate for pensioners, e-sign, and Digitize India,
the government records digitisation drive project are few other projects under
Aadhar.
Jeevan
Pramaan project aims to provide digital life certificates for disbursement of
pensions to over 10 million pensioners. It is a biometric-enabled system built
on Aadhaar. e-sign service is to provide digital authentication of documents
through the Aadhaar. Likewise, Digitize India project, the government wants to
digitize citizen’s record through crowd sourcing model.
According to TechSci Research,
Digital India is the major ICT initiatives which are highly citizen-centric and
restriction by the supreme court on Aadhar has slow down the progress of the
projects. The alternative means by DEITY is expected to revamp the Digital
India initiatives and thereby positively impacting the ICT ecosyem