**Executive Summary**
NITI Aayog launched the "DPI@2047 for Viksit Bharat" roadmap on April 27, 2026, to transition India’s Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) toward productivity-led growth. The strategy follows a two-phase timeline: DPI 2.0 (2025–2035) focusing on livelihoods and sectoral transformations, and DPI 3.0 (2035–2047) aimed at broad-based prosperity. The immediate priority is the execution of DPI 2.0 through district-level adoption, AI integration, and strengthening market access for small enterprises.
**Key Points / Main Content**
**Strategic Phasing and Objectives**
* **Two-Phase Path:** Implementation is divided into DPI 2.0 (2025–2035) for livelihood-led growth and DPI 3.0 (2035–2047) for long-term prosperity.
* **Productivity Shift:** The focus shifts from basic digital inclusion and GDP to enhancing productivity, income levels, and standards of living.
* **Beyond Identity and Welfare:** The roadmap extends "digital rails" beyond payments and identity into engines for market access and livelihoods.
**Sectoral Transformations (DPI 2.0)**
* **Target Sectors:** Identifies eight transformations to resolve structural bottlenecks in MSMEs, agriculture, education, and health.
* **Systemic Enablers:** Focuses on strengthening credit access, decentralized energy, and benefit delivery systems.
* **Connective Infrastructure:** Aims to build infrastructure that allows innovations to work together across different institutions and ecosystems.
**Execution Imperatives**
* **District-Led Demand:** Prioritizes demand aggregation at the district level to ensure adoption reflects local realities.
* **AI and Data Utilization:** Emphasizes the democratization of AI, better use of trusted data flows, and scaling technology entrepreneurship.
* **Human Capacity:** Focuses on building stronger human capacity and vernacular, population-scale AI models to improve lives.
**Impact Analysis**
**Indian States**
**Impact**
States are viewed as the primary drivers of inclusive growth; when States grow faster through digital transformation, the nation’s progress accelerates.
**Action Required**
States must adapt and implement the practical pathways and digital frameworks provided in the roadmap to suit their specific transformation journeys.
**MSMEs and Small Enterprises**
**Impact**
These entities gain improved access to credit, market opportunities, and digital tools that allow them to compete at scale.
**Action Required**
Small enterprises need to adopt the new digital infrastructure and integrate AI-driven innovations into their business models to enhance productivity.
**Citizens**
**Impact**
Citizens benefit from higher quality employment, stronger incomes, and better service delivery in health and education.
**Action Required**
Citizens will need to engage with the democratized AI and digital platforms designed to improve livelihoods and provide broader market access.
**Industry and Start-ups**
**Impact**
The roadmap creates a fertile environment for technology entrepreneurship and the development of scalable, interoperable public outcomes.
**Action Required**
Industry leaders and start-ups must commit to ecosystem-led innovation and collaborate on building a population-scale model for AI adoption.
Key Entities Referenced
DPI@2047: A strategic roadmap launched to chart the next phase of India’s Digital Public Infrastructure journey as a driver of inclusive and productivity-led growth.
NITI Aayog: The primary government policy think tank responsible for developing and launching the DPI@2047 roadmap in partnership with industry stakeholders.
DPI 2.0: The immediate operational phase (2025–2035) of the roadmap focusing on eight sectoral transformations including MSMEs, agriculture, education, and health.
Viksit Bharat 2047: The overarching national vision for a developed India by 2047, which serves as the primary objective for the digital infrastructure roadmap.
NITI Frontier Tech Hub: An action tank created to anticipate emerging technology shifts and shape India's preparedness to harness frontier technologies for economic growth.
NITI Aayog
NITI Aayog Launches DPI@2047 Roadmap to
Advance Inclusive and Productivity-Led Growth
Posted On: 28 APR 2026 11:37AM by PIB Delhi
New Delhi, 28 April 2026 | The rules of competition in technology are changing. Advantage today no
longer comes from innovation alone. It increasingly depends on the ability to connect innovation across
sectors, institutions, and ecosystems, and then diffuse it rapidly at population scale. In this new paradigm,
digital rails matter more than ever. They are what allow ideas, applications, and services to move from
pilots to nationwide impact.
It is in this context, NITI Aayog launched DPI@2047 for Viksit Bharat on 27th April 2026, a strategic
roadmap that charts the next phase of India’s Digital Public Infrastructure journey as a driver of inclusive,
non-linear, and productivity-led growth.
The roadmap was unveiled by Shri Suman Bery, Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog and Prof. Ajay Kumar Sood,
Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, in the presence of Ms. Nidhi Chhibber, CEO,
NITI Aayog; Dr. V. Anantha Nageswaran, Chief Economic Advisor; Ms. Debjani Ghosh, Distinguished
Fellow, NITI Aayog; Mr. Shankar Maruwada, Co-Founder and CEO, EkStep Foundation; and other
distinguished guests and dignitaries. Industry leaders, start-ups, and development partners participated
enthusiastically, underscoring a strong collective commitment to India’s next phase of digital
transformation.
The roadmap, developed in partnership with EkStep Foundation and Deloitte, sets out a two-phase path
for India’s digital transformation: DPI 2.0 (2025–2035) to drive livelihood-led growth at scale, followed
by DPI 3.0 (2035–2047) to enable broad-based prosperity. The immediate focus is DPI 2.0.
Under DPI 2.0, the roadmap identifies eight sectoral transformations to address structural bottlenecks
across MSMEs, agriculture, education, and health, while strengthening systemic enablers such as credit,
decentralised energy, and benefit delivery. To translate intent into outcomes, it outlines four execution
imperatives: district-led demand aggregation, scaling technology entrepreneurship, leveraging AI, and
deploying cross-sector unlocks through better data use, digital transactions, stronger human capacity, and
the democratisation of AI.
At its core, DPI 2.0 is about extending India’s digital rails beyond identity, payments, and welfare into the
engines of livelihoods, productivity, and market access. It reflects a larger shift in how growth will be
created in the years ahead: not simply by inventing new technologies, but by building the connective
infrastructure that allows innovation to work together, travel faster, and reach more people. By combining
open digital infrastructure with trusted data flows and ecosystem-led innovation, the roadmap creates the
conditions for technologies such as AI to diffuse at scale across citizens and small enterprises.This marks an important evolution in India’s digital journey - from digital inclusion alone to enabling
capability, productivity, and opportunity at scale.
The priority now is execution. Grounded in district-level adoption and local realities, and anchored in
trust, interoperability, and safeguards, DPI 2.0 offers a practical pathway for technology adoption to drive
broad-based growth across India and support the country’s transition to a non-linear, productivity-led
growth trajectory towards Viksit Bharat 2047.
Speaking on the occasion, Shri Suman Bery stated that the focus has shifted from GDP to productivity.
Higher quality employment, stronger incomes, and better living standards depend on rising productivity.
DPI 1.0 has shown that harnessing networks is the secret of where we have reached. This roadmap makes
that shift clear. The next phase of India’s development will be shaped by how AI and DPI raise
productivity at scale, placing it at the centre of India’s development journey and helping lay the foundation
for Viksit Bharat 2047.
Prof. Ajay Kumar Sood highlighted that technology leadership will increasingly be defined by our ability
to translate science and innovation into scalable, trusted public outcomes. India’s DPI has demonstrated
the power of open, interoperable systems at population scale. The next phase must build on this
foundation, integrating frontier technologies with strong scientific rigour and safeguards. This roadmap
reflects that direction, focusing on responsible deployment and real-world impact. India has the scientific
depth and digital foundations to lead by example.
Ms. Nidhi Chhibber emphasised that a significant part of the NITI FTH roadmap focuses on supporting
States in their transformation journeys. The intent is to equip them with practical pathways they can adapt
and implement. Our perspective is simple: when States grow fast, India grows faster. DPI can become a
significant enabler in accelerating inclusive growth for states.
Ms Debjani Ghosh remarked that the roadmap sets out how DPI 2.0 can move India from digital inclusion
to productivity-led, livelihood-centred growth on the road to Viksit Bharat 2047. The global AI race is no
longer only about frontier models, chips and capital; it is increasingly about a country’s ability to connect
digital infrastructure with economy-wide diffusion and impact. India enters this next phase with a
powerful structural advantage: its Digital Public Infrastructure. By combining DPI, AI and
entrepreneurship, India can build an inclusive, vernacular and population-scale model of AI adoption that
improves lives, strengthens livelihoods and unlocks productivity across critical sectors.
Access the full roadmap here: https://niti.gov.in/sites/default/files/2026-04/DPI-2047-for-Viksit-Bharat-A-
Strategic-Roadmap-to-Enable-Non-linear-Inclusive-Socio-economic-Growth.pdf
About NITI Frontier Tech Hub:
The NITI Frontier Tech Hub was created as an action tank for Viksit Bharat to anticipate emerging mega-
technology shifts and shape India’s preparedness to unlock their potential for faster economic growth,
inclusive societal outcomes, and strategic resilience—advancing the country’s journey towards becoming
a frontier-technology nation. Collaborating with over 100 experts from government, industry, and
academia, the Hub is shaping a 10-year roadmap across 20+ sectors to harness frontier technologies for
economic growth, societal outcomes, and strategic resilience.
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