Launch of ‘Know Your DIGIPIN’ & ‘Know Your PIN Code’: Boosting India’s Digital Addressing

The Department introduced two new digital platforms, known as ‘Know Your DIGIPIN’ and ‘Know Your PIN Code,’ to promote the country’s geospatial and addressing infrastructure. Working with IIT Hyderabad and ISRO’s NRSC, these portals offer quick geolocation of any address for better digital services, logistics and responding to emergencies. These projects are in line with the National Geospatial Policy 2022, working to update India’s address system for secure and correct service delivery in both urban and rural areas. Both citizens and organizations play a part in reviewing information, ensuring the government’s Digital Public Infrastructure is always accurate and equitable.

Context:

• “Know Your DIGIPIN” includes a digital address that organizes itself into a grid and corresponds to location coordinates.

• ‘Know Your PIN Code’ makes it easier to locate postal areas using a map, as well as get user comments on the PIN process.

• Through these portals, Digital India’s services are improved, emergencies are managed more effectively and government processes are simplified.

Key Points

About “Know the DIGIPIN” Portal

• Developed by: IIT Hyderabad and NRSC, ISRO helped build an open and interoperable digital address system.

• Objectives: 

  • Users can acquire the DIGIPIN code at their location by typing in coordinates from latitude and longitude.

  • Offers basic logistics, emergency aid and quick neighborhood services where they are badly needed.

  • Designed to be used by ministries, states and institutions in presenting GIS-based digital services.

About “Know Your PIN Code” Portal

• Objectives: 

  • Improves the previous six-digit PIN code system by connecting each postal zone to GPS data via satellite technology.

  • People can view their area’s accurate codes and give feedback to help make the data more precise.

  • PIN code data with boundaries is available on the Open Government Data platform in geo-json format.

Changes in Digital Governance and Public Services

• Accuracy and Development: They demonstrate India’s dedication to digital change, improving the accuracy of public services.

• Better management: By using geospatial data, organizations can organize their operations, manage things better and act fast.

• Connectivity: Help brings about the “World is Family” mentality by promoting people to take part across the country.

Keeping Applicants Involved and Additional Learning

• Feedback is included in government portals to help citizens, developers and institutions provide improvements to the data.

• Being part of the process helps to keep digital addressing correct for various local uses.

Conclusion:

The creation of the ‘Know Your DIGIPIN’ and ‘Know Your PIN Code’ portals has greatly enhanced India’s geospatial and addressing infrastructure. They make sure that service delivery is more accurate and convenient, plus every citizen can be reached using technology. Continuous public participation and advanced technology in running the country are helping India create a more effective, connected and responsive Digital Public Infrastructure.