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UMANG crosses 11 crore users, 798 crore transactions in 3 years
The government's UMANG app has registered over 11.66 crore users and processed about 798 crore transactions in the last three years, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology told the Rajya Sabha…
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The government's UMANG app has registered over 11.66 crore users and processed about 798 crore transactions in the last three years, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology told the Rajya Sabha on August 7. Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw submitted the data, which also showed 2,575 services active on the platform as of July 31.
DigiLocker, another government platform, had 72.43 crore registered users and 72.86 crore document transactions in the same period. The government also expanded Common Service Centres to 4,07,122 at Gram Panchayat level, with over 70,000 run by women entrepreneurs, to improve digital access in rural areas.
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Impressive numbers, but they gloss over the real test: how many of these transactions are genuinely useful to ordinary Indians versus repeated logins for small subsidies? The government hails UMANG and DigiLocker as pillars of Digital India, yet many users still complain about bugs and incomplete services. The number of active services, 2,575, sounds large, but state-level integration remains patchy. The real measure will be how many new services get added by March 2027, and whether rural women operators see real income from their CSCs.
Source: livemint.com
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