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Govt working on One Digital ID
February 01, 2022
The Central government is seemingly working on the successor of the Aadhaar Card. As per the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s (MeitY) proposed plan that was assessed by The Indian Express, the government is working on a new model of “Federated Digital Identities” to link multiple digital IDs, for example, driving license, passport numbers, PAN, etc all into one.
This new digital ID will apparently be available as a special ID, like the Aadhaar card number. The proposed plan suggests the umbrella digital identity will “empower” a citizen by “placing her in charge of these characters and providing her with the choice of picking which one to use for what reason,” the report notes.
The Federal Digital Identity will also seemingly serve as a one-stop destination to store Central and State-related ID information. As expected, this digital ID could be used for KYC or eKYC (know your customer) processes. The report features the proposed plan has been moved under the India Enterprise Architecture (IndEA) 2.0 that was first acquainted in 2017 with essentially bring government and private entities to ease online identification processes.
The report highlights that the proposed framework aims to develop digital architecture that is “interlinked and interoperable.” The ‘Federal Digital Identity’ would hope to ease the process of eKYC with just one unique ID.
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