India's DPI stack positions AI as next public digital infrastructure

Consider the following statements with respect to the AI Impact Summit, 2026 held in New Delhi:

1.The Summit's intellectual framework was based on three foundational Sutras: People, Planning, and Progress.

2.The Preamble of the Summit stresses Democratising AI Resources, which acknowledges the Charter for Democratic Diffusion of AI as a binding framework to support locally relevant innovation and strengthen resilient AI ecosystems while respecting national laws.

3.The New Delhi Declaration on AI Impact was structured around seven Chakras (Pillars), which included Access for Social Empowerment, AI for Science, and Secure and Trusted AI.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements regarding the AI Action Summit held in Grand Palais, Paris in February 2025:

I.Co-chaired with India, the event builds on the advances made at the Bletchley Park Summit held in 2023 and the Seoul Summit held in 2024.

II.Along with other countries, US and UK also signed the declaration on inclusive and sustainable AI.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

With the present state of development, Artificial Intelligence can effectively do which of the following?

1.Bring down electricity consumption in industrial units

2.Create meaningful short stories and songs

3.Disease diagnosis

4.Text-to-Speech Conversion

5.Wireless transmission of electrical energy

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Which of the following statements is/are correct regarding Smart India Hackathon 2017?

1.It is a centrally sponsored scheme for developing every city of our country into Smart Cities in a decade.

2.It is an initiative to identify new digital technology innovations for solving the many problems faced by our country.

3.It is a programme aimed at making all the financial transactions in our country completely digital in a decade.

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Consider the following statements regarding India's Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) stack:

1.Aadhaar functions as the identity layer, enabling low-cost API-based verification for over 1.4 billion enrolled individuals.

2.UPI is operated by the Reserve Bank of India directly, processing transactions at near-zero marginal cost.

3.The Account Aggregator framework under DEPA enables citizen-controlled, consent-based sharing of financial data across institutions.

4.No other country has built an integrated combination of identity, payments, and data as interoperable public digital rails at India's scale.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

With reference to the IndiaAI Mission (2024), consider the following:

1.Its total outlay is approximately ₹10,372 crore.

2.It covers compute infrastructure, curated datasets, application development, skilling, and startup support.

3.It is administered directly by NITI Aayog.

4.The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 provides the primary statutory framework for data handling under this Mission.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Assertion (A): India's DPI model is considered globally distinctive not because of any single component but because of the integration and interoperability of its identity, payments, and data layers.

Reason (R): Countries such as Estonia, Brazil, and Singapore have developed comparable integrated DPI stacks that match India's combination of Aadhaar, UPI, and DEPA.