Data-Driven Rural Reset

Embracing the digital fueled transformation, technology is fast changing the face of the farmers and villages. From laying down the framework of ‘India Digital Ecosystem of Agriculture – (IDEA)’, to involving AI, Machine Learning, Drones, Data Analytics in the agriculture industry, the centre’s policies are overcoming increasing demand and disruptive forces along with other issues.

“At the core of our good governance efforts in India’s villages is to leverage the power of technology for the welfare of people,” these are the words of Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his recent visit to Jammu & Kashmir. Evidently, technology penetration in the Indian agriculture sector is happening at various levels starting from – policy interventions to digital innovations. For policy intervention, the proof in the pudding is the SVAMITVA scheme, in which nearly 36 Lakh Property cards have been prepared in 28,603 villages. Under Digital Innovation, the centre developed mActionSoft – a mobile-based solution to help in capturing photos with Geo-Tags. 2.52 lakh photographs of the assets have been uploaded by the Gram Panchayats for the activities taken under the fifteenth Finance Commission. Further, Towards leveraging technology in data management, MoPR conceptualized the application “AuditOnline” that not only facilitates the auditing of accounts but also provisions for maintaining digital audit records. This is definitely a big leap from Social Audits, a rigorous process that constitutes verifying the field realities with data in official documents and discussing the findings on a public platform such as Gram Sabha.

India’s fight against COVID-19 till now, has also established the importance of bringing data-driven strategies for COVID-19 management, especially in rural areas where the lack of information regarding COVID-19 management can severely constrain pandemic management. Rural India requires localized policy interventions to ensure the optimization of critical resources. With this idea in mind, the focus on technology again proved helpful as MoPR tactfully developed COVID19 DASHBOARD in collaboration with NIC that helped India monitor covid related policy implementation at the grassroots level.

Besides, the country is even in the process of developing Smart Vending Carts to be used by Vendors in rural areas. In fact, a Smart Vending E-Cart, designed by IIT Bombay, has been demonstrated and found to be quite appropriate for the use by vendors / small businesses in rural, peri-urban and farm sectors. With a call for ‘Meri Panchayat Mera Adhikaar – Jan Sevaayein Hamaare Dwaar’ the government has created a Citizen Charter document that rightly shifts focus to where it belongs – the Rural Citizenry. The government is also ensuring ‘ease of living’, financial inclusion and complete digitalisation, among other aspects. And this can rightly be achieved by putting ‘Data’ at the heart of all development goals.

From healthcare to education to finance and manufacturing; various sectors governing our economies, have become technology-driven. This also holds true for one of the oldest industries known to civilization – Agriculture.

Evolution of EV Ecosystem in India

NITI Aayog released the Battery Swapping Policy to bring greater efficiency in the EV Ecosystem. The idea was indicated in the Budget 2022 where considering the constraint of space in urban areas for setting up charging stations at scale, central government had promised to roll out a battery swapping policy and formulation of inter-operability standards to come up the sector’s efficiency. The move will also encourage the private sector to develop sustainable and innovative business models for ‘Battery or Energy as a Service’. Under the plan, Data Centres and Energy Storage Systems including dense charging infrastructure and grid-scale battery systems will be included in the harmonized list of infrastructure. This will facilitate credit availability for digital infrastructure and clean energy storage.

Earlier, July 2019 had witnessed a whopping Tax boost for EVs as the central government slashed down the GST rate on electric vehicles (EVs) from 12% to 5%. In the same year, the government also mandated green license plates for battery-operated vehicles. In its efforts to further promote use of EVs, centre also issued notifications to state govts to exempt permit and minimise road tax for EVs in 2021. This was followed by another unprecedented development where a PLI scheme was approved for manufacturing of Advanced Chemistry Cell (ACC), a move to reduce the prices of batteries in the country, and ultimately bringing down total cost of production of Electric Vehicles. The scheme worth Rs 26,000 crore was announced to boost the production of electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel vehicles in the country and it was estimated that the scheme will create as many as 7.5 lakh jobs for the auto sector. The collective efforts of all the stakeholders have resulted in a significant increase in the number of electric vehicles in the country. According to the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, the number of electric vehicles registered in 2018 in the country as per the e-Vahan portal was 1,31,554. The number rose to 1,61,314 in 2019. Cumulatively, as of July 2021, there were a total of 5,17,322 registered electric vehicles in the country.

Besides, India is also all ready to work on solutions and provide the world with innovative initiatives & vital alternatives. Earlier, India had joined hands with Israel’s start-up company Phinergy to set up a factory in India to manufacture aluminium-air batteries for electric vehicles and stationary applications. Lithium-ion batteries are in widespread use for electric vehicles and various gadgets globally. Finding and switching to an alternative becomes imperative because unlike Aluminium, lithium’s availability is scaringly finite on Earth. In the case of e-vehicles, aluminium-air batteries are also expected to offer a much greater range of 400 km or more per battery compared to lithium-ion batteries which currently offer a range of 150-200 kilometres per full charge. However, use of Aluminium batteries would also require the setting up of battery swapping stations as these cannot be recharged like lithium-ion batteries. The new battery swapping policy rolled out by the centre may provide solution for this problem as well.

Electronic Vehicles (EVs) are being endorsed as the future of transportation sector as the near total reliance on fossil fuels for automobiles is wringing a huge cost out of the environment. To decarbonize the transport sector, a major contributor of CO2 emissions), transition to clean mobility has become essential, which the government has already started to ensure through more and more endorsement and induction of Electric Vehicles. Electric vehicle (EV) charging stations have also expanded by two-and-a-half times across nine megacities, in the last four-five months only. Each of these 9 major cities have a population of over 4 million. As many as 1.8 lakh electric vehicles were sold in the country during this period.

Fundamental Work in Quantum Computing

Quantum computing is one fast emerging technology with the potential to change the way humans live on this planet. Delving into high-end technologies like AI, deep learning, IoT, DevOps, NLP and cloud computing may be the need of the hour, but it is quantum computing that has the kind of sophistication and potential to rule the current technologies and the way they are going to work. Quantum computing is going to be the platform on which majority of the technologies may be working in near future. Considering the urgency, technology superpowers like Google, Microsoft, IBM and others are in the pursuit of exploring things on this line, and even Government agencies are also encouraging committing support to the startups for relevant research.

The Indian government has already set up the ground for collaborations and developments. The QSim by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology is one such opportunity. The Indian government announced Rs 8,000 crore for quantum computing in Union Budget 2020. The telecom industry has opened a myriad of opportunities for quantum computing through the quantum lab of the Military College of Telecommunication Engineering in MP. Medicine sector is also in research for the quantum algorithm to support it to give more intricate details like size, pattern, shape, and alignment to the researchers to come up with new drugs to deal with a situation created by Covid pandemic and others.

Quantum mechanics like any physical theory is based on experiments. While a large section of the scientific community is invested in building devices towards quantum computing applications, a separate community is invested in precision tests of fundamental aspects of quantum theory itself. A group of scientists from the Raman Research Institute (RRI), an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology, in a collaborative research have used quantum computers to perform some precision tests of the fundamental aspects of the quantum theory. These are known as Sorkin and Peres tests, the two vital tests to calculate the chances of happening of an event and determination of potential to behave as waves, respectively. As quantum computers are scalable quantum systems, these fundamental experiments could provide a universal programmable setup for developing a quantum circuit, which could be a Rosetta stone that allows translation of experiments from one physical system to another.

Summing up these experiments, RRI’s Professor Urbasi Sinha says that, “Our method provides a nice way to create well defined benchmarks for quantum computers so that we know exactly how error prone they are, by using the very foundations of quantum theory as the benchmarking tool.” India at the helm of such fundamental work of cutting edge Quantum Computing bodes well for New India.

Imagining Health Services in Metaverse

Benefits of Meditation are innumerable and it surely is hot topic in fight against mental stress and illness induced during pandemic. Group meditation is considered even more helpful, especially for beginners, as it helps in garnering feedback and developing the habit. Digital media allowed virtual sessions and on-screen presence to overcome the barriers of physical meetings. Taking a cue from gaming world, an encounter in the virtual world of metaverse can add all together new dimensions to these intensely personal experiences, hitherto available only in physical reality.

First usage of the term metaverse came in Snow Crash, a 1992 novel by Neal Stephenson. This was used by him to describe the successor of the Internet, a vision of how a virtual reality–based Internet might evolve in the near future. This concept in the novel along with William Gibson’s Neuromancer, which describes a virtual reality dataspace called the matrix, created a genre of literature in itself which went on to changing the gaming industry. With availability of Virtual Reality(VR), Augmented Reality(AR), Brain-Computer Interfaces(BCI), AI/ML tools explosion, big data and quantum computing, these imagined concepts are now ripe to change the way we play, meet and even remain healthy.

Not just video calls, but AR has also been actively used to impart training to COVID-19 respondents. VR has also been used now by medical education institutions as well as mental health experts for treating post-traumatic stress (PTS). Metaverse is likely to build on these experiences for treatment of various brain issues like Phobia, anxiety, delusions etc. Treatment of addiction to VR using metaverse is certainly an interesting proposition.

Metaverse holds huge potential for the domain of medical education, training as well as diagnostics part of a treatment. In a lab setting, creating human body via AR can make the examination of anatomy altogether a different experience. Usage of electrodes along with VR headset to real-time provision of body vitals to Metaverse can remove the need of travel and related expenses .

As a concept, metaverse has already started to incorporate Web3 technology enabled through blockchain technology (like NFTs and Cryptos). It will soon be replacing phones and desktops as the central platforms of our daily lives. Hence, it is not difficult to predict that the future metaverse would be very similar to real world in many aspects and even replace real-world activities like gaming, working or even hanging out. The strong sense of mutual presence will transform the doctor-patient relationship in unimaginable ways.

Samir Kumar – Head PBNS

Tech Powered Judicial Empowerment

“Indian judicial system is 200 years behind compared to developed countries”, says Justice Krishna Iyer in his book ‘Law, Lawyers and Justice’. Time has come to put despair aside and take these kind of remarks as seeking opportunities to improve processes adjudication of plethora of pending and upcoming cases. For timely and fair mannered justice delivery, these processes need to be efficient, effective, and equitable.

It is timely to acknowledge the need of directly adopting tech solutions for empowering Indian judicial system as it requires fast processing and delivery mechanisms. AI, machine learning, natural language processing, digital sharing and record-keeping, etc. are some of the solutions that are already being explored and examined. “To explore the use of AI in judicial domain, the Supreme Court of India has constituted Artificial Intelligence Committee which has mainly identified application of AI technology in Translation of judicial documents; Legal research assistance and Process automation,” Law Minister Kiren Rijiju stated recently in Parliament conveying about implementation of phase two of the eCourts projects of the government.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one technology that has gained a lot of relevance in last couple of years with the government of India trying to incorporate it even in the day-to-day functioning of the three pillars of Indian Democracy. However small the percentage may be, making the procedures and functioning public is another bold attempt that will rightly help in taking masses in confidence and building a parallel bridge to digital connectivity and setup of an overall advanced working judicial system.

Another stepping stone towards this new-age judicial ecosystem was set with the launch of the AI-driven research portal SUPACE (Supreme Court Portal for Assistance in Courts Efficiency) last year. The portal deals with large chunks of case data through machine-learning. However, SUPACE does not participate in decision-making as its AI mechanisms are focused on collection and analysis of data. “We are not going to let AI spill over to decision-making… It fully retains the autonomy and the discretion of the judge in deciding the case, though at a much, much faster pace because of the readiness with which the information is made available by the AI,” former CJI SA Bobde had said while launching the portal.

Apart from tech solutions, efforts are also being invested in enabling greater digital connectivity and better focus on easy and secured usage of electronic data and record-keeping. Ensuring the same, CJI N.V. Ramana has launched ‘Fast and Secured Transmission of Electronic Records’ or FASTER, a digital platform that will assist court officials to instantly send e-copies of the orders through a secured electronic communication channel to intended parties. This was followed by the launch of a new divyang-friendly website by the department of justice, providing all citizens with a one-stop platform for all digital initiatives of the Justice Department. This will allow public to view High Courts judgements and orders, view case status, settle traffic violations, and even view Live streaming of court proceedings of High Courts of Gujarat, Orissa, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Patna and MP. The website will also keep other important information for public about eCourts Mission Mode Project, appointment of Judges, fast-track special Courts, Nyaya Bandhu, Gram Nyayalaya, DISHA scheme, Tele Law, etc.

Amidst ongoing debates on right manner to address judicial inefficiencies by extending working hours, reducing public holidays, setting up more courts, appointing more judges, filling up the vacancies etc, Technology adoption is surely looking like the winner. Further, changes in laws and social structure are easier to incorporate in these tech solutions.

Advanced Fuels to Fuel Advancement

The 21st century India has rightly adopted an agile approach for its growth and a lot of focus has been on transforming the way the economy creates value. Last few years have gone into laying foundations for new avenues and Smart solutions, especially ones that are helping to save environment, that too exponentially.

The auto-industry is brewing with many such solutions and many of them have already hit the ground. The use of Alternative Fuels are also being looked upon with keen endorsement. From electricity run cars and propane vehicles to natural gas-powered buses and trucks running on bio-diesel, the use of alternative fuels is becoming a craze like never before. Unlike conventional energy sources, alternative fuels have various sources to be harnessed for varied purposes. Also, in a country where we need millions of new jobs every year, renewable energy creates new jobs opportunities also.

Alternative fuels are non-conventional and advanced fuels, which can be used in place of existing fossil fuels like petroleum products, coal, natural gas and others. They are being highly preferred over conventional fuels because of their obvious advantages like relatively low cost, environmental and emission benefits, domestic availability, employment generation, storage benefit etc. Bio-diesel, bio-alcohol like methanol, ethanol, butane, refuse or waste-derived fuel, chemically stored electricity like batteries and fuel cells, hydrogen, non-fossil methane, non-fossil natural gas, vegetable oil, propane and other biomass sources are some of the alternative fuels, being used worldwide. Alternative fuels are often low-cost and they also produce less waste and particulate matter, carbon monoxide, unburnt hydrocarbons and sulphur dioxide.

The world’s most advanced technology – developed Green Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (FCEV) Toyota Mirai was also very recently launched in the country. It is an important initiative which will promote clean energy and environmental protection by reducing dependence on fossil fuels, thereby making India ‘Energy Self-reliant’ by 2047. Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (FCEV), powered by Hydrogen is one of the best Zero Emission solutions, which is completely environment friendly with no tailpipe emissions other than water.

The government is said to be working plans to shift public transportation to 100% clean energy sources. It has been stated that the automobile companies will start manufacturing flex-fuel variants within six months and that most vehicles in India will soon run on 100% ethanol. Though the most commonly used flex-fuels use 85% petrol and 15% ethanol presently, the upside of ethanol-based fuels is that the ratio of ethanol to petrol can be adjusted to any combination. It is also important to mention that unlike CNG cars, flex-fuel requires minimal modifications to the fuel system and engine to effectively use the fuel. Therefore, flex-fuel compatibility has to be factory-engineered and cannot be fitted or modified in the after-market. India has permitted ethanol production from B-heavy molasses, C-heavy molasses, grains unfit for human consumption, sugarcane juice, sugar, sugar syrup, surplus rice and maize, so that they don’t cause food shortage. Contrary to the popular notion with regard to an aversion to changes, Bihar became the first state in the country to have its own ethanol policy. Ethanol Production Promotion Policy, 2021 of the state permits ethanol production in Bihar from all feed stocks allowed by National Policy on Biofuels, 2018, and also by National Biofuel Co-ordination Committee.

Building Cyber Sustainable Solutions

With growing digital indulgence and technological shift, the matters of privacy and secured networking and storage channels also become of prime importance and require equally robust support systems and mechanisation. Building and replicating a technology is one challenge. Another challenge, rather trickier one, is posed when all these technologies get interconnected to form a web of the country’s total digital & cyber undertakings and the state is met with piling needs to protect its cyber net. This vulnerability gives birth to the need of developing strong data protection systems and technologies.

One such data protection solution is the technology of ‘Quantum key distribution’ (QKD) which is a secure communication technology that uses quantum physics to construct a cryptographic protocol. It allows two parties to generate a shared secret key that is only known to them and can be used to encrypt and decrypt messages. For the first time in India, a team of DRDO scientists and IIT Delhi successfully demonstrated a Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) link between Prayagraj and Vindhyachal in Uttar Pradesh spanning over 100 kilometres, using a commercial-grade optical fibre that was already on the market. In the test runs, the performance parameters for this QKD were found to be repetitively within the reported international standards at sifted key rates of up to 10 KHz.

With this breakthrough, the country has demonstrated its own secure key transfer method, which can be used to bootstrap a military-grade communication security key hierarchy. The QKD technology will further enable India’s security agencies to plan a suitable quantum communication network with indigenous technology backbone.

A report by the Data Security Council of India (DSCI) highlighted India’s remarkable growth in the cyber space. It said that India’s cyber security industry nearly doubled in size amid the pandemic, with revenues from cyber security products and services growing from $5.04bn in 2019 to $9.85bn in 2021. India, its startups, various industries and public & private institutions are also getting acquainted and/or working on other tech-solutions and systems like the blockchain technology, Digital Forensics Technology, modern data science tools, vulnerability assessment & penetration testing tools and solutions, etc.

To build even better capacity towards this, the government has been making relevant provisions in the budget and various policies. Budget 2022, under GIFT-IFSC, talked about Data Centres and Energy Storage Systems including dense charging infrastructure and grid-scale battery systems to be included in the harmonized list of infrastructure. This will facilitate credit availability for digital infrastructure and clean energy storage. It also mentioned Blended Financing solutions where Government backed Funds like ‘NIIF’ and ‘SIDBI Fund of Funds’ have provided scale capital creating a multiplier effect. For encouraging important sunrise sectors such as Climate Action, Deep-Tech, Digital Economy, Pharma and Agri-Tech, the government proposes to promote thematic funds for blended finance with the government share being limited to 20 per cent and the funds being managed by private fund managers.

Gati Shakti for Transforming Connectivity

“We shape our buildings; thereafter, they shape us.” – Winston Churchill

The new India is marching on the roads of an unprecedented transition into an entirely new dimension of modern living, where system are both solution-oriented and sustainable. By rightly identifying the hitches, the focus has shifted to ‘building afresh’ in the recent years. While prominent initiatives like Make in India, Vocal for Local, Self-Reliant India, Startup India, and others have ignited a sense of awareness and stimulation in India, especially boosting sectors like manufacturing and entrepreneurship, all of this is being rightly taken to the next level by working on the infrastructural development like never before across the country.

PM Gati Shakti, which runs on a transformative approach for economic growth and sustainable development, is driven by seven engines, namely, Roads, Railways, Airports, Ports, Mass Transport, Waterways, and Logistics Infrastructure. All seven engines can lift up the growth curve of the entire country, if supported by the complementary roles of Energy Transmission, IT Communication, Bulk Water & Sewerage, and Social Infrastructure. Such an economic breakthrough can create a plethora of job and entrepreneurial opportunities for all, catering to especially the youth.

The introduction of Gati Shakti, as the name suggests, is a powerful means to get almost all the imperative sectors of the economy up and running with ‘Connectivity’ being the main fuel, as ease in transportation relentlessly brings down the logistics cost. This retention further relaxes the budget plots across various sectors, leading to exports competitiveness, boosting labour employment, resulting in more investments and vigorous economic expansion. More and more connectivity convenience naturally leads to the development of multiple urban, industrial centres. These urban centres are enabler of balanced regional development, paving way for more and more industrial clusters to sprout up across the country. Further, a good roads infrastructure would feed well into railway lines, which in turn, would feed into ports, resulting in faster goods transportation, stirred up supply chain systems, quick manufacturing and more trade and business.

It is well documented that as a proportion of the total value of goods, logistics costs are almost double in India (around 14%) as compared to developed nations (around 7%), hence there is lot of room of improvement. This underlines the need and power of Modern logistics mechanisms, which is the aim of the endeavour of Gati Shakti. The government also has in its pipeline the National Logistics Policy to ease supply chain bottlenecks and accelerate India’s logistics sector, which frequently deals with competitiveness gap. The plan will improve India’s trade competitiveness, create more jobs, improve India’s performance in global rankings and pave the way for India to become a logistics hub.

S.M.A.R.T. Agriculture in India

As the government welcomes modern tech-based agricultural solutions, including use of Kisan drones, Nano-technology based fertilizers, digitization of land records, and more to keep India’s agricultural growth trajectory robust, India has shifted to practices of what can be called ‘Smart Agriculture’ which has begun to transform the lives of Indian farmers.

The word SMART, when combined with ‘Agriculture’, deciphers a plethora of actions and practices that must be well adapted to by all the stakeholders of the agricultural sector, be it government, institutions, producers, sellers and every individual linked to the Agro-chain. One could smartly break the acronym (SMART) into Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Time-based, which are key factors in deciding the fate of Agriculture and allied sectors.

By identifying the precise new technologies and working to acquire them for its agricultural requirements, India is being ‘Specific’. By building capacity and infrastructure to come up the farm, production and land records and create tools and schemes to make new ones, it is being ‘Measurable’. It has been ‘Attainable’ by ensuring and celebrating exports growth, record production, record organic exports growth, maintaining satisfying MSPs, timely and easy release of funds under various schemes like Kisan Samman Nidhi & others through DBT, opening up of 44.23 cr Jan Dhan Accounts, etc. India is also being ‘Relevant’ as it looks forward to solutions facilitating use of Kisan drones and convergence of AI & machine learning, blockchain technology, remote sensing-based tools and technologies with Agriculture. And all this is being done with a ‘Time-based’ approach, meeting deadlines.

Terming it as the future, PM Narendra Modi addressed a webinar on ‘Smart Agriculture’ calling on policymakers and stakeholders to begin the execution of the provisions discussed in the budget 2022-23 for the agriculture sector. PM Modi laid out seven ways which hold the potential to turn Indian agriculture smart enough. These include natural farming, use of modern technologies, Mission Oil Palm to reduce our dependence on import of edible oils, new logistical facilities for transportation of food-grains and other farm products, agriculture waste management, agriculture research and use of post offices in providing banking services to the farmers.

Over the past six years, farm outputs have seen an unprecedented growth registering new records, following the continuous impetus from the government through different plans. This oscillates in tandem with the goals that have been defined by it to double farmers’ income by 2022-23, promote farmers welfare and bring parity between earnings of farmers and those working in non-agricultural professions. The food grain production rose to 298 million tonnes in 2019-20, 311 million tonnes in 2020-21 and estimated 316 million tonnes in 2021-22. However, it vacillated before 2016-17, hovering between 245 million tonnes and 265 million tonnes.

Data-Driven Rural Development

“You see,” Gandhi began, “the centre of power now is in New Delhi, or in Calcutta and Bombay, in the big cities. I would have it distributed among the seven hundred thousand villages of India. That will mean that there is no power… nobody could deprive them of their assets. There will then be voluntary cooperation between these seven hundred thousand…,” These words of Mahatma Gandhi were noted by American journalist Louis Fischer in his book “A week with Gandhi” (4 to 10 June 1942).

We are told to be living in a global village and this terminology has come into existence because of the exponential rise in connectivity across the globe but how connected are villages of India? Not only this question is being answered but available modern technology is being utilized to connect and compound the growth of the Indian villages through a multi prong approach.

The Rural Connectivity GIS Data that has been made public by the Ministry for Rural Development today, is a classic example of this. Data for over 8 lakh rural facilities, 1 million+ habitations & 25 lakh kilometers of rural roads was collected & digitized using the GIS platform developed for the ambitious Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY). This information will now act as building blocks to further the planning and implementation of developmental projects in India’s rural areas. The initiative is being governed by PMGSY’s nodal agency NRIDA, which, apart from signing MoUs with three GIS firms, has collaborated with Gati Shakti with an objective to exchange the data for the better planning and implementation of both the schemes.

As all this government exclusive data so far gets released in public domain, it not only sets a momentum to take connectivity to an all new high but also presents scores of drive thru opportunities for startups, academia, governments, and civil societies to have a share and build on the data access. The data as big and nuanced as this is bound to bring a multi-sectoral spin in India’s technological rise, by acting as a catalyst for facilitating quick convergence of rural and urban Indian systems in terms of opening markets, augmenting startup ecosystem, pave way for more infrastructural projects, digital buying and delivery, e-commerce, targeted pickups, transportation, strengthening supply chains etc. The Rural Connectivity GIS data access will widen the spectrum of growth and expansion for seekers, entrepreneurs, administrative and governing bodies, at the same time contributing to the Self-reliant India campaign. Access to correct and comprehensive DATA is going to play a pivotal role in building systems, of the people, for the people, by the people of India.