The government is planning to launch platforms like the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) to extend tech-driven good governance in the country.

Ashwini Vaishnaw, Minister of Electronics and IT says, “The government was working with the National Digital Health Mission to roll out a UPI-like model, which will be used for other areas such as logistics, agriculture, and education among others. These would be developed and democratized so that they can be used by everyone.”

IT Minister says, “The government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has created a model of good governance which puts the common citizen at the center 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 plan was to put technology to use in such a way boosts the success perceived by UPI, the Jan Dhan bank accounts, and the digital Direct Benefit Transfer schemes, among others.

Vaishnaw says, “It primarily focuses on taking the good governance model to many more sectors. The foundational blocks are there, right? So, healthcare is a large sector in which the National Digital Health Program is going on very well. 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.”

“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,” adds IT Minister.