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UNIFIED MOBILE APPLICATION FOR NEW-AGE GOVERNANCE

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UNIFIED MOBILE APPLICATION FOR NEW-AGE GOVERNANCE UMANG (Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance) is developed by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and National e-Governance Division (NeGD) to drive Mobile Governance in India. UMANG provides a single platform to access major pan India e-Gov services from Central and State Government Departments and also Utility Bill payment services. This application serves as a unified platform providing access to more than one thousand and two hundred central and state government services such as AADHAR, DigiLocker, PAN, CBSE, tax and fee or utility bill payments, e-District and passport. The services are available in multiple Indian languages. The app was launched on November 23, 2017. The orange and blue colour logo of UMANG has an index finger touching blue colour mobile phone and its acronym written at the bottom using a round ended medium sans serif font.

INDIA STACK

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INDIA STACK India Stack is the moniker for a set of open APIs and digital public goods that aim to unlock the economic primitives of identity, data and payments at population scale. Although the name of this project bears the word India, the vision of India Stack is not limited to one country; it can be applied to any nation, be it a developed one or an emerging one. The bedrock of India Stack is a set of digital identity products centered around Aadhaar, India’s national identity program. In 2016 the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) announced the launch of the United Payments Interface (UPI), catapulting India into the age of digital payments. The third and final piece of the India Stack puzzle focuses on establishing a new model for data governance in India. Enshrined in a policy framework known as the Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture (DEPA), the ‘data’ layer of India Stack aims to restore the ownership and control over user data to its ...

UNIQUE IDENTIFICATION AUTHORITY OF INDIA - AADHAAR

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UNIQUE IDENTIFICATION AUTHORITY OF INDIA -AADHAAR The brand name of the Unique Identification Number (UID) is Aadhaar. The name and logo for the unique numbers to be issued by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) have been developed keeping in mind the transformational potential of the programme. Together, they communicate the essence and spirit of the UIDAI's mandate to people across the country. The design, which has been selected as the logo for Aadhaar, is a sun in red and yellow, with a fingerprint traced across its centre. The logo effectively communicates the vision for Aadhaar. It represents a new dawn of equal opportunity for each individual, a dawn which emerges from the unique identity the number guarantees for each individual. The logo was designed by Atul S. Pande of Pune and is selected through a competition in the year 2010.