Government uses technology as a medium of social empowerment through JAM Trinity

New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government has addressed the implementation challenges that plagued the UPA government by implementing technology-based targeting and monitoring mechanisms, according to the ‘White Paper’ on the economy tabled in Parliament on Thursday. The document tabled in Parliament by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the government used technology as a means of social empowerment and unlocked the potential of the JAM trinity – Jan Dhan, Aadhaar and mobile. Also read- BJP may launch nationwide campaign to highlight white paper details. Advertisement “The government took the issue of leakage very seriously, and the first-of-its-kind JAM-PAHAL scheme to transfer LPG subsidy through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) reduced leakage by 24 per cent,” it read. It said the government’s commitment to the ideal of “reaching the last mile” with the use of Aadhaar has facilitated the transfer of over Rs 34 lakh crore to over 1,167 crore beneficiaries under DBT. Also Read – Indian Economy Transformed from ‘Fragile Five’ to ‘Top Five’: White Paper Advertisement “The ubiquity of user-friendly dashboards and management information systems (MIS) in key schemes has created transparency and accountability through real-time monitoring. Is it.” For example, geo-tagging of properties under MGNREGS, PM-Awas Yojana, etc. has enabled real-time monitoring and transparency in the implementation of large programmes. The transformative and decisive approach of our Government has resulted in a better track record of program delivery than its predecessor. India’s current digital public infrastructure (DPI) landscape currently consists of the JAM trinity (Jan Dhan, Aadhaar, Mobile) with assets such as Ayushman Bharat Health Account (ABHA), DigiLocker 2.0, Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), Account Aggregator, Moving forward. (AA) and Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing (DIKSA), among others. “India’s DPI has grown beyond Aadhaar and Unified Payments Interface (UPI), creating impact across sectors including e-commerce, gaming, fintech, banking and MSMEs.”