Under the initiative of ‘Digital India,’ the Maharashtra Government will issue a total of 65,000 caste certificates based on Blockchain technology. The step by Maharashtra also comes under e-governance hence the step will be also to explore e-governance.

Highlights

Web 3 twist is provided by Maharashtra to e-governance
Step objected to creating a censorship prone governance platform
The technology Blockchain can replace the record-keeping system

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Maharashtra, a state of India is issuing the caste certificate based on Polygon Blockchain technology. The certificate is distributed only to certain villages like Etapalli village and Gadchiroli district are included under these certificates via LegitDoc.

LegitDoc is a Polygon Blockchain-based space that provides the services related to the technology, the platform also makes these certificates verifiable. The state government is focused on specific economically challenged and tribal populations of the mentioned region in the central Indian state. The mission comes under Digital India and it will explore e-governance.

The record of 65,000 people will get recorded on Blockchain and they are the persons who will get the caste certificate. Under the state government schemes, these people will get the benefit.

The government of Maharashtra is giving the Web 3 platform which is a reform to this crucial documentation work is intended to restrict the forgery activities in the related department and to get known about the right beneficiary of the government schemes.

Through a Linked post, the Assistant Collector of Etapalli, Shubham Gupta said “such an implementation sets a precedent for India to emerge as the frontier in building tech stacks on neutral Web 3 platforms- decentralization aligned and de-platformation- resistant alternatives to the censorship- prone American and Chinese dominated digital tech stack,” said in a post.

Gupta added in his post about the fake certificate issued will get sacked after checking the QR of the certificate.

Gupta said “Public Blockchains have bought in a new dimension to the internet, where information can not only be openly sharable but can be made openly unfalsifiable. Such a solution can disrupt societal methods of record-keeping, identity management, payments, remittances, accounting, fundraisers, etc,” said in his post on Linked In.

India is working to polish the digital platform and space in which the Reserve Bank of India also going to launch its Central Bank Digital CurrencyCBDC which will provide the Indians with a new currency.

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