New Delhi, April 28 (IANS). NITI Aayog has released a strategic roadmap for the next phase of India’s Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI). It aims to promote inclusive, rapid and productivity-led growth.
‘DPI@2047 for Developed India’ is a new step in India’s digital journey. Now the focus is not limited to just digital access, but on efficiency, productivity and creating opportunities on a large scale.
According to NITI Aayog, this roadmap has been prepared in collaboration with Ekstep Foundation and Deloitte. It outlines two phases — DPI 2.0 (2025-2035), which will drive employment and livelihood-led growth, and DPI 3.0 (2035-2047), which will drive broader prosperity. Currently the focus is on DPI 2.0.
Under DPI 2.0, eight major changes have been identified to improve sectors like MSME, agriculture, education and health. Besides, systems like delivery of credit, energy and government schemes will also be strengthened.
The statement said that four main points have been made to implement this scheme, which include increasing demand at the district level, promoting technology entrepreneurship, using AI and improving different sectors through democratization of data, digital payments, human resources and AI.
Its main objective is to extend digital systems beyond identity, payments and government schemes to the areas of employment, productivity and market access.
This shows that future development will not just come from creating new technology, but from creating systems that can connect all technologies and reach more people faster.
Through open digital infrastructure, trusted data and innovation, this roadmap will help in bringing technologies like AI to the common people and small businesses.
Professor Ajay Kumar Sood, Principal Scientific Advisor to the government, said that now leadership in technology will depend on how well we take science and innovation to the people.
He said that India’s DPI has already worked on a large scale and now it is necessary to implement new technologies responsibly in the next phase.
NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Suman Berry said that now the focus has shifted from just GDP to productivity.
He said that increasing productivity is necessary for better employment, income and standard of living and DPI will play an important role in this.
NITI Aayog CEO Nidhi Chhibber said that only when states develop faster, the country will progress faster, and DPI will help in this.
Debjani Ghosh, Distinguished Fellow, NITI Aayog, said that this roadmap will take India beyond digital access to productivity and employment-led growth, thereby helping in achieving the goal of ‘Develop India 2047’.
–IANS
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