KarnatakaBlockchain Technology Driving the Next Generation eGovernance Applications

Blockchain technology has drawn significant attention from the Government due to the pain areas that it promises to address. Several schemes of the Government require the verification of the documents / facts to ensure the eligibility of the applicant. This is a time consuming process. Although some of the departments use the electronic data available with other agencies to verify the applicants claim electronically, the lack of confidence that the data has not been tampered has set the Government to look at alternatives such as blockchain. The menace caused by spurious drugs, liquor, contaminated blood etc. has cost the life of many a citizen. Tracking and tracing the source of various commodities such as medicines, seeds, organic products is now vital to providing better services to the citizens.