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Towards Duty
Towards Duty
Path
Path
Years
Years
The Digital India
Program DIGITAL SERVICES: AADHAAR
Commencement July 1, 2015 Scheme 132 UIDAI provides Aadhaar enrollment and
DIGITAL INDIA: other services through more than 55,000
centres across the country. Along with
MAKING STRIDES crore Aadhar this, 79 Aadhar Seva Kendras are also
TOWARD A DIGITAL cards have being run. Residents who have linked their
mobiles with Aadhaar can change their
been enrolled till
ECONOMY February 2022. name, age, gender, and date of birth on the
OBJECTIVE: To establish India online portal myaadhaar.gov.in.
as a digitally empowered society
and a knowledge economy The Unified Payment
for digital inclusion and digital Interface (UPI)
empowerment.
n Developing a Center of Progress is a leading digital payment
Excellence (CoE) in Emerging platform. Multiple bank accounts
Technologies such as the can be linked in a single mobile
Internet of Things, Block Chain, app. Payment for this can also
Data Analytics, and Artificial be scheduled. By February
Intelligence to train Indian IT 2022, 229 banks had joined the
professionals, as well as a UPI service. As part of the
Future Skills Prime Program government's strategy to
in Emerging Technologies digitise the financial sector
such as Big Data to support and the economy, digital
strong Indian software payments have grown
product development. The rapidly in recent years.
National Policy on Software
Products—2019 was also BHIM-UPI has received 452.75 crore
launched with the goal of digital payments worth
creating an eco-system.
n It facilitates credit flow and ` 8.27 lakh crore as of
promotes digital payments February 28, 2022.
by linking bank accounts with
mobile phones and Aadhaar.
n Similarly, in the health, UPI Payment
education, agriculture, and 2021-22*
information technology
industries, public digital
platforms are a source 2020-21
of holistic growth and 7422
transformative diversity. 2019-20 5554
n The expansion of the RuPay 3134 4572
payment gateway, the shift to
digital currency, and 5G will
make services more accessible. 2018-19 Figures in crores, * February 2022
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