New Delhi: The central government on the replacement of the Aadhaar card, which would link a citizen’s multiple digital IDs – PAN, Aadhaar, driving license and even passport numbers, reports The Indian Express.
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has proposed a new model of “Federated Digital Identities” that can interlink, store and access multiple IDs through a unique ID.
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According to the proposal reviewed by The Indian Express and it suggested that the umbrella digital identities would give the citizen “by putting him in control of these identities and giving him the option of choosing which one to use for what purpose.”
The proposal will be launched in the public domain for comments by February 27. The “Federal Digital Identity” would also serve as the key to a registry where all the different state and central identities could be stored. The report said citizens can use the digital ID to avail other third-party services through authentication and consent eKYC. All digital identities can be interconnected to eliminate repeated verification.
The proposal has been moved under India Enterprise Architecture (IndEA) 2.0, it was first designed in 2017 to “enable the alignment of IT development with the business vision of government organisations”, The Indian Express cited the proposal. Gave. However, the frame work has since been updated.
InDEA 2.0 version proposes a framework that enables public as well as private sector companies to build and design IT architectures “that can be beyond their organizational boundaries” to deliver “holistic and integrated services to customers”. makes.
To take the proposal forward, the government has proposed a revamped framework in which the most comprehensive work will be carried out by the Center ‘or concurrently or by ministries dealing with state affairs’, according to the government. The ‘State Architecture Pattern’ will be controlled by the State Governments, while the ‘India Light Architectural Pattern’ will be controlled by both the State and the Federal Government.
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