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NATION | Prime Minister’s special article

loan online. Your creditworthiness is assessed
through an account aggregator framework.
You get your loan and start your venture.
You register on GeM, supply to schools and
hospitals, and then scale up via ONDC. ONDC
recently crossed 200 million transactions,
with the last 100 million in just six months.
From Banarasi weavers to bamboo artisans
in Nagaland, sellers are now reaching cus-
tomers nationwide, without middlemen or
digital monopolies. GeM has also crossed R1
lakh crore GMV in 50 days, with 22 lakh sellers
including 1.8 lakh+ women-led MSMEs, who
have fulfilled orders worth R46,000 crore.

DIGITAL PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE:
INDIA’S GLOBAL OFFERING
India’s Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) from
Aadhaar, CoWIN, DigiLocker, and FASTag to
PM-WANI and One Nation One Subscription
is now studied and adopted globally. CoWIN
enabled the world’s largest vaccination drive,
issuing 220 crore QR-verifiable certificates.
DigiLocker, with 54 crore users, hosts 775 AI. The New Delhi Declaration on AI promotes
crore+ documents, securely and seamlessly. innovation with responsibility. We are estab-
Through our G20 Presidency, India launched lishing AI Centres of Excellence across the
the Global DPI Repository and a $25 million country.
Social Impact Fund, helping nations across
Africa and South Asia adopt inclusive digital THE ROAD AHEAD
ecosystems. The next decade will be even more transforma-
tive. We are moving from digital governance
STARTUP POWER MEETS to global digital leadership, from India-first
AATMANIRBHAR BHARAT to India-for-the-world. Digital India has not
India now ranks among the top 3 startup remained a mere government program, it has
ecosystems in the world, with over 1.8 lakh become a people’s movement. It is central
startups. But this is more than a startup to building an Aatmanirbhar Bharat, and to
movement, it is a tech renaissance. India is making India a trusted innovation partner to
doing extremely well when it comes to AI the world.
skill penetration and AI talent concentration To all innovators, entrepreneurs, and
among our youth. Through the $1.2 billion dreamers: the world is looking at India for the
India AI Mission, India has enabled access to next digital breakthrough.
34,000 GPUs at globally unmatched prices
at less than $1/GPU hour making India not Let us build what empowers.
just the most affordable internet economy, Let us solve what truly matters.
but also the most affordable compute desti- Let us lead with technology that unites,
nation. India has championed humanity-first includes, and uplifts. n

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