Government plans to introduce One digital ID to access other IDs

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has proposed a new model of "Federated Digital Identities" that will allow using a single digital ID to access multiple IDs.

Govt’s ambitious plan to go for one unique ID will access multiple digital IDs ,with this the citizens will be able to link several IDs like PAN, Aadhaar, passport, and driving license to one ID. The ministry will seek public comments by February 27.

The “federated digital identification” would additionally function a key to a registry the place all completely different state and Central identities might be saved. Residents can use the digital ID “for availing different third-party providers by way of authentication and consented eKYC”.

With this, all of the digital identities of a citizen may be interlinked with one another, which might eradicate the necessity for repeated verification course of, in response to the draft proposal. The ministry has moved the proposal below the India Enterprise Structure (IndEA) 2.0.

IndEA was first proposed and designed in 2017 “with a view to allow alignment of the IT developments with the enterprise imaginative and prescient of presidency organisations.” The framework has since been up to date.

The InDEA 2.Zero report recommends a extremely selective method to the design and improvement of the constructing blocks. Solely the core constructing blocks are proposed to be designed, developed, and managed centrally by the central or state governments. “From a governance perspective, the federal government performs an enabling position in respect of the remaining constructing blocks,” says the draft report.