Polygon blockchain-base caste certificates are being issue in certain regions of India’s Maharashtra state. In one of the firsts, the residents of Etapalli village and Gadchiroli district are getting their caste certificates via LegitDoc, a Polygon blockchain-base platform, which makes these certificates instantaneously verifiable.
Government of Maharashtra aims to target the economically challenge and tribal population of the mention regions in the central Indian state.
This step is being taken under the ‘Digital India’ initiative to explore on-chain e-governance.
A total of 65,000 Polygon-based caste certificates will be issue in Maharashtra.
These identifications help underprivilege people get access to government schemes.
As per Maharashtra authorities, giving a Web 3 reform to this crucial documentation work is intend to “curb the menace of forgeries” and “identify the right beneficiaries for delivery of government schemes”.
Shubham Gupta, Assistant Collector, Etapalli wrote in a LinkedIn post :
“Such an implementation sets a precedent for India to emerge as the frontier in building tech stacks on neutral Web 3 platforms, decentraliation-aligned and de-platformation-resistant alternatives to the censorship-prone American and Chinese dominated digital tech stacks,”.
Fake caste certificates past with a valid QR code on it will also be easy to detect since there will be a mismatch between the data shown on the verification portal and the forged certificate being verified.
Shubham Gupta Said :
“Public blockchains have brought 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,”.
Indian authorities have looking to harness the power of blockchain technology for some time now.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is working on a blockchain-based Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) that will expose Indians to the new digital assets category, without exposing them to the risks of losing money on volatile cryptocurrencies.
The reason why Polygon became the blockchain of choice for the Maharashtra government is because it is an India-base Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development platform.
