Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023
The statutory framework for lawful processing, consent, obligations and data-principal rights.
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National Digital Trust Infrastructure
A proposed expansion of trusted digital public infrastructure for verified records, secure life-event services, fraud alerts and citizen-controlled access.
Public problem
Why this initiative is being developed
Citizens repeatedly prove the same facts across disconnected systems while fraudulent or altered records remain costly to detect. A trust layer must improve verifiability without creating uncontrolled data concentration, surveillance or exclusion.
Evidence boundary: the sources below establish the legal, institutional or risk context. The proposed framework, phases and outcomes are Nitish Jindal's independent policy assessment and are not presented as government decisions.
Primary evidence
Authoritative sources supporting the problem definition
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
MeitY Annual Report 2025–26
Current official evidence on India's digital-public-infrastructure scale, including DigiLocker.
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DigiLocker
An operational government platform for issuing and accessing authentic digital documents.
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What the initiative proposes to organise
Verified property, vehicle, employment, judicial and family records
Consent-led sharing, audit trails and fraud warnings
Services organised around citizen life events
Interoperability, privacy, inclusion and accountable governance
Institutional ownership
Authorities and delivery partners
- MeitY for national digital-policy and interoperability standards
- Relevant Union, state and local record-owning departments
- Data-protection and cybersecurity authorities within their legal mandates
- Independent audit bodies for security, accessibility and exclusion risks
Implementation
Proposed sequence
- Inventory authoritative registers, legal owners and existing digital interfaces
- Define trust, consent, correction, audit and revocation standards
- Pilot a small number of high-value life-event services
- Scale only after security, inclusion and grievance-redress testing
Measurable outcomes
How progress should be judged
- Fewer repeated document submissions
- Faster detection of altered or inconsistent records
- Citizen-visible access history and correction routes
- Interoperable services with measurable reduction in administrative burden
Safeguards
Constraints that must govern design
- Purpose limitation and data minimisation
- No single unrestricted database of citizens' life records
- Offline and assisted routes for inclusion
- Independent security testing and effective correction, erasure and grievance mechanisms
Version: Evidence page 1.0 · Last materially reviewed 2026-08-02 · No official adoption or endorsement is claimed.
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