The Indian government, after the soaring success of Unified Payments Interface (UPI) platform, is looking at coming up with a similar model to widen the scope of tech-driven good governance.
Use of UPI Like Model for Other Sectors
For other sectors like agriculture, education, education etc. the government is planning to create UPI-like platforms said the Union Minister of Electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw.
The centre was collaborating with the Digital Health Mission in order to bring out a UPI-like model.
It will be used for the areas like logistics, agriculture, and education among others. These would be developed and democratised so that they can be used by everyone.
The minister said that the essence behind this creation is the use of technology in a way that mirrors the success seen by UPI, the Jan Dhan bank accounts, and the digital Direct Benefit Transfer schemes, among others.
Vaishnaw added “The government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has created a model of good governance which puts the common citizen at the centre and builds everything around her. Be it systems, or technologies, processes, or schemes, all of them empower the common citizen and make sure that things reach hassle free without corruption and in a very transparent manner”.
The core focus of the government is on taking the good governance model to many more sectors.
Speaking about the foundational blocks, the union minister added that healthcare is a large sector in which the National Digital Health Program is going on very well.
He said that “This will be almost like UPI where the government is creating the platform everybody else joins. Logistics, agriculture, and education…all these sectors will have phenomenal growth using distributive law”.
Technology Helped To Drive Nationwide Vaccination Program
It was due to the efficient utilisation of such a platform was the reason that the government was able to roll out and implement the Covid-19 vaccination program at such a short notice.
The minister said while explaining that “Our CoWIN platform enabled us to do 219 crore vaccinations in a short period of one year and 10 months. Large, powerful, rich countries are struggling with their vaccination programs even now”.
Apart from the IT ministry, Technology had also aided the government to create better models of governance.
Pointing out the laws, minister for communications and railways said that the “We repealed 1,500 archaic, useless laws which did not have any relevance. It is a huge way forward for building a society, which is sustainable, growth-oriented, and brings a sustainable change in the common person’s life”.
As we speak today, there are as many as 450 million Jan Dhan accounts with 1.35 billion people having a digital identity – Aadhaar – in the country.
