Cabinet Note — Digital Public Infrastructure Roadmap
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CONFIDENTIAL · CABINET SECRETARIAT
Cabinet Note
Digital Public Infrastructure — National Roadmap 2026 – 2030
File No. MeitY/DPI/2026/044 · 13 July 2026
Submitted by
Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology
For decision of
Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA)
Financial impact
₹ 42,180 crore (5-year outlay, phased)
Consulted
NITI Aayog, MoF (DEA), UIDAI, NPCI, RBI, NIC, C-DAC
1. Preamble
Over the last decade, India has built a set of open, interoperable digital rails —
Aadhaar, UPI, DigiLocker, CoWIN, ONDC, AA — that today serve as global exemplars of
population-scale digital public infrastructure. This note proposes the next phase of
investment, governance, and expansion for the period{' '}
2026-27 through 2030-31.
2. Strategic Objectives
Universalise access to a verifiable digital identity layer with strong privacy guarantees under the DPDP Act, 2023.
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fragmented state-level service platforms into a common consent-based fabric.
Extend account aggregator and data-fiduciary infrastructure to health, agriculture, and skilling verticals.
Establish a sovereign compute and model layer to support Indic-language AI at population scale.
3. Proposed Interventions
3.1 Identity & authentication. Modernise Aadhaar authentication APIs to support offline verification, delegated authorisation, and revocable virtual identifiers. A phased rollout across all Central Ministries is proposed by Q2 FY 2027-28.
3.2 Consent & data-sharing (open for review). Expand the Account Aggregator
framework to non-financial sectors. Establish independent Consent Managers under a
statutory oversight body. Data-sharing to be default-off, purpose-bound, and time-limited.
3.3 Public compute. Provision 25,000+ GPUs and 4 sovereign data centres (Bengaluru, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bhubaneswar) through a Public–Private Partnership model. Access to be granted via a peer-reviewed proposal process for research and public-interest applications.
4. Financial Implications
Total outlay of ₹ 42,180 crore over five years, phased as under. Non-Plan support of ₹ 1,120 crore for programme management and monitoring is included.
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{ who:'S. Iyer', init:'SI', color:'#B45309', when:'2h ago', body:'On 3.2 — recommend we specify that Consent Managers report to a statutory body rather than an executive one. Aligns with DPDP §17.', anchor: 'Consent & data-sharing' },
{ who:'K. Nair', init:'KN', color:'#0F7A3E', when:'4h ago', body:'Should we clarify that "federated" means state autonomy over their citizen datasets? Otherwise this reads like centralisation.', anchor: 'Federate fragmented' },
{ who:'P. Ramesh', init:'PR', color:'#0B4C8C', when:'Yesterday', body:'Financial impact figure needs vetting by MoF-DEA before circulation.', anchor: '₹ 42,180 crore', resolved: true },
{ who:'Karya AI', init:'K', color:'#7C3AED', when:'Suggestion', body:'Section 3.3 could quantify expected utilisation — e.g., "supporting research from 200+ institutions and 40 line ministries." Want me to draft?', ai: true },
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