Mission 5 of 7

Technology & Digital State

Build sovereign technological capability and a digital state that is interoperable, proactive, measurable and auditable — under privacy, due process and human oversight.

Owner: Mission Lead — Technology & Digital StateUnionStateShared

Outcome hierarchy

10-year outcome → 3-year missions → Year-1 goals

10-year outcome (Year 10 — beyond a single term; depends on renewed mandates)

By Year 10: citizens interact with government once, proactively, with audit trails — and India holds sovereign capability in at least three strategic technology stacks.

By end of Year 3

By end of Year 3: 'Tell us once' pilots across 5 high-volume services with measured re-submission rates.
By end of Year 3: Open-data publication standard adopted by 3 states with machine-readable releases.
By end of Year 3: National compute and AI-research access programme evaluated on research output.

Year 1 goals

Prove 'tell us once' works and is safe

KR · Re-submission rate measured and cut in 2 pilot servicesmetric
KR · Independent privacy and due-process audit published for every pilot

Measurement

Outcome metrics

Sourced observations are published statistics, reproduced as stated. Targets are Pragati Shakti proposals. Where no national measurement exists we say so instead of inventing one.

Service applications requiring re-submission of data government already holds

Unit: % · lower is better

Baseline to be built

Not yet measured

No government publishes this. It will be measured by form-field audit in the PS-007 pilot services and published monthly.

Baseline: Not yet measured
Proposed target: 10% by Year 10

We measure

Share of services where a citizen never re-submits data government already holds
Median time to resolve a service request
Share of government datasets published as open, machine-readable data
Successful cyber-incident containment time
Domestic value-add in strategic technology supply chains

We do not define success by

Apps launched
Portals announced

Scope

Focus areas and who can act

Artificial intelligenceSemiconductor capabilityRoboticsCybersecurityQuantum technologiesCloud infrastructureDigital public infrastructureSovereign technology capabilityGovernment automationScientific computingSpace technologyStartup ecosystemsTechnology researchOpen government dataInteroperable government systems

Who can act?

UnionTelecom, IT, space, atomic energy, defence technology and national data standards.
StateMost citizen-facing services (land, certificates, licences) are State-run.
SharedInteroperability requires joint standards and consent frameworks.

Federalism explained →

Sample implementation schedule · simulated

How the work board for this mission would look (3 sample cards)

These cards demonstrate the record-keeping. None of these initiatives has started; dates are relative to taking office (Y1 Q1 = first quarter).

PS-007

'Tell us once' — 5 high-volume services

Illustrative: PilotShared

Citizens repeatedly re-submit data government already legitimately holds.

Owner: Mission Lead — Technology & Digital State
Baseline: Not measured; form-field audit in pilot
Target: < 25% in pilot services by Year 2
Sample dates: Y1 Q1 → Y2 Q4
Est. / actual: ₹150 cr / ₹22 cr
KPI: tech-resubmission-rate
Priority: 5 / 100

Depends on: Consent framework legal review; State service integration

Risks: Privacy breach via over-broad data sharing; Legacy system integration failure

Y1 Q2 — Sample schedule: first two services would go live only after the privacy audit is published.

PS-008

Open-data publication standard (3 states)

Illustrative: ScalingState

Government data is released as PDFs or not at all; cannot be audited or reused.

Owner: Mission Lead — Technology & Digital State
Baseline: Ad hoc releases
Target: Machine-readable releases with schemas in 3 states
Sample dates: Y1 Q1 → Y2 Q2
Est. / actual: ₹30 cr / ₹11 cr
KPI: Share of datasets machine-readable
Priority: 12 / 100

Depends on: State IT departments

Risks: Standard adopted on paper only

Y1 Q2 — Sample schedule: standard v1.0 adopted by one state in Y1 Q2; two more to follow.

PS-016

National compute access for AI research

Illustrative: BacklogUnion⚠ Unfunded

Public research institutions lack compute to do frontier AI work.

Owner: Mission Lead — Technology & Digital State
Baseline: Fragmented access
Target: Evaluated programme with research-output metrics
Sample dates: Y2 Q1 → Y4 Q4
Est. / actual: ₹2.5k cr / ₹0 cr
KPI: Peer-reviewed output and fielded systems per ₹ crore
Priority: 0 / 100

Depends on: Power availability; Procurement reform

Risks: Under-utilisation; Vendor lock-in

Y1 Q2 — Sample schedule: blocked — no funding source identified; stays unfunded until one is.

Learning · simulated examples

Labs projects and what didn't work

Labs

PROTOTYPE'Tell us once' consent architecture

What didn't work

No discontinued programmes recorded.