The Importance of India Stack
BackGround
Government and business exist to serve their service seekers. In the case of government service seekers are the citizens. In case of business they take different names- customers, consumers ,passengers, learners and many more.
With the advent of Digital India, the government has a vision to serve citizens electronically and online. Towards this, it has built a robust digital infrastructure and an assorted set of basic services to realise it's digital service delivery dream.
A citizen service life cycle consists of one or more or all of the following stages
1. Identifying a citizen uniquely
2. Exchange of documents to verify eligibility , issuing of documents related to a service
3 Seeking consents , sending signed approvals or certificates and more
The set of assorted services mentioned above are deployed towards carrying out these stages
Aadhaar number uniquely identifies Indian residents. It is an online system
Digilocker is used to deliver documents to residents. This is a cloud based system
E-signs is used to seek resident consents and share official approvals.
UPI helps to conduct online transactions
Together they enable the Government to deliver citizen services online and electronically.