NITI Aayog has recently launched the DPI@2047 roadmap to guide the next phase of India’s Digital Public Infrastructure

NITI Aayog has recently launched the DPI@2047 roadmap to guide the next phase of India’s Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI). This initiative is seen as a key step toward achieving the vision of a developed India by 2047.The primary objective of this roadmap is to ensure inclusive, non-linear, and productivity-driven growth. It aims to expand digital systems in a way that benefits all sections of society, especially underserved and rural populations.

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¨     The report titled ‘DPI@2047: The Roadmap to Prosperity’ was released by the NITI Frontier Tech Hub under NITI Aayog.

¨     It presents a three-stage evolution of DPI (1.0, 2.0, 3.0), moving from foundational digital inclusion to productivity-driven and innovation-led growth.

¨     The document builds on the successes of Aadhaar and Unified Payments Interface to expand access to economic opportunities.

¨     It targets $18,000 per capita income by focusing on mass livelihood empowerment, human capability development, and systemic digital transformation.

¨     The roadmap was developed in partnership with EkStep Foundation and Deloitte, reflecting a collaborative ecosystem-driven approach.

Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) 2.0

¨     DPI 2.0 (2025–2035) is designed to move India from foundational inclusion to livelihood-led, productivity-driven growth, forming the base for DPI 3.0 (2035–2047), which aims at broad-based prosperity and high-value economic expansion.

¨     It represents a shift from earlier focus areas like identity and payments to mass livelihood empowerment, innovation diffusion, and economic participation at scale.

¨     The roadmap envisions India becoming a $30 trillion economy with a per capita income of $18,000 by 2047, supported by DPI-led transformation.

¨     DPI 2.0 integrates AI, trusted data systems, and interoperable digital infrastructure to democratise access to knowledge, markets, and opportunities across society.

Implementation Roadmap (DPI 2.0 & 3.0)

¨     The DPI@2047 roadmap proposes a two-phase strategy:DPI 2.0 (2025–2035): Focus on livelihood-led, productivity-driven growth.DPI 3.0 (2035–2047): Achieve broad-based prosperity and a high-income society.

For DPI 2.0, the roadmap identifies eight sectoral transformations and outlines four execution imperatives:

¨     District-led Demand Aggregation: Linking DPI initiatives with district-level development goals to ensure hyper-local adoption and create demand for digital solutions.

¨     Scaling Technology Entrepreneurship: Expanding India’s base of innovators through incubators, accelerators, mission-driven R&D, and enabling policy frameworks to build a distributed innovation ecosystem.

¨     Leveraging AI Momentum: Using AI as a key productivity engine to solve structural challenges and ensure its accessibility for both citizens and enterprises.

¨     Cross-Sectoral Strategic Unlocks: Include unlocking data for insights and trust-based systems, democratising AI to remove digital and language barriers, enhancing human capacity and knowledge access, and expanding digital transactions through open networks.

Key Sectoral Transformations under DPI 2.0

¨     Mass Inclusion at Scale (Livelihood Expansion):MSME Market Expansion: Enabling access to market intelligence, improving market linkages, and simplifying compliance processes to unlock growth for small enterprises.

¨     Local Job Matching: Making MSMEs digitally visible to connect them with local talent, turning job fulfilment into a low-cost, high-trust transaction.

¨     Smallholder Farmer Empowerment: Providing farmers with advisory services, credit access, and stronger market linkages to improve income and resilience.

Foundations of Human Capability

¨     Learner-Centric Education Ecosystem: Creating safe, inclusive, and digital learning spaces aligned with NEP, ensuring equitable access to content in local languages and continuous learning pathways.

¨     Universal Health Coverage: Building systems where a single health crisis does not push families into poverty, ensuring healthcare access irrespective of financial status.

¨     Systemic Enablers:Access to Credit for a Billion Indians: Leveraging monetizable assets and digital systems to expand microcredit access at scale.

¨     Decentralised Energy Markets: Enabling efficient utilisation of renewable energy to meet growing and unmet demand.

¨     Benefits Delivery Systems: Ensuring that welfare benefits reach all eligible citizens in a timely, transparent, and inclusive manner.