NITI Aayog on 28 April 2025 launched a strategic roadmap titled 'DPI@2047 for Viksit Bharat', charting the next phase of India's Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) journey as a driver of inclusive, non-linear, and productivity-led growth. Developed in partnership with EkStep Foundation and Deloitte, the plan lays out a two-phase digital transformation path extending to 2047, with the immediate focus on DPI 2.0 (2025–2035).

Two-Phase Digital Transformation Path

The roadmap divides India's digital future into two chapters: DPI 2.0 (2025–2035), designed to drive livelihood-led growth at scale, and DPI 3.0 (2035–2047), aimed at enabling broad-based prosperity. DPI 2.0 is the immediate operational focus, extending India's digital rails beyond identity, payments, and welfare delivery into the engines of livelihoods, productivity, and market access.

Eight Sectoral Transformations Under DPI 2.0

Under DPI 2.0, the roadmap identifies eight sectoral transformations to address structural bottlenecks across MSMEs, agriculture, education, and health. It also strengthens systemic enablers including credit access, decentralised energy, and benefit delivery. The approach combines open digital infrastructure with trusted data flows and ecosystem-led innovation to create conditions for technologies such as AI to diffuse at scale across citizens and small enterprises.

Four Execution Imperatives

To translate intent into outcomes, the roadmap outlines four execution imperatives: district-led demand aggregation, scaling technology entrepreneurship, leveraging artificial intelligence (AI), and deploying cross-sector unlocks through better data use, digital transactions, stronger human capacity, and the democratisation of AI.

What Key Officials Said

Prof Ajay Kumar Sood, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, said technology leadership will increasingly be defined by the 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," he said.

Suman Bery, outgoing Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog, said the focus has shifted from GDP to productivity. "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," Bery noted.

Nidhi Chhibber, CEO of NITI Aayog, said that when states grow fast, India grows faster, and that DPI can become a significant enabler in accelerating inclusive growth for states. Debjani Ghosh, Distinguished Fellow at NITI Aayog, said 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.

Why This Marks a Strategic Shift

Notably, DPI 1.0 focused primarily on digital inclusion — building the foundational identity, payments, and welfare stack underpinning programmes like Aadhaar, UPI, and direct benefit transfers. The new roadmap signals a deliberate pivot: not simply building new technologies, but constructing connective infrastructure that allows innovation to travel faster and reach more people. This is the first time NITI Aayog has articulated a structured DPI trajectory aligned explicitly with the Viksit Bharat 2047 centenary vision. How swiftly state governments adopt district-led models and operationalise AI democratisation will determine whether the roadmap's ambitions translate into measurable outcomes.