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eGov Products & Services

o deliver on the vision of Hon’ble
TPrime Minister’s “Digital India Mis- OAuth 2.0 / SAML 2.0 SSOs
sion,” MeitY has implemented MeriPeh-
chaan, the National Single Sign-On plat- OpenAPI / OAuth 2.0
form of the Government. It provides users Login Meri / SAML 2.0 Integrated Digilocker
with enhanced secure authentication to Pehchaan Applications
access citizen-centric services using a
single set of credentials. With seamless MyGov e-Pramaan
on-boarding of applications, MeriPe-
hchaan provides
application owners User Sarathi JanParichay
with a well-designed
authentication and Access
identity management
framework. S3WaaS CSC

ServicePlus Parichay
Dr. Seema Khanna
Dy. Director General

Fig. 8.3: MeriPehchaan Architecture
Facebook, GitHub, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts • Language Interoperability: Applications are reuse the MeriPehchaan profile information to
while government users can login via Parichay, accessible in multiple languages namely Hindi, access other Government services
CSC accounts as well English, Tamil, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu etc. • Safe and Secure: Completely safe as SSOs
• User Authentication: Services can force users to • Standardised Registration: Users can login via under MeriPehchaan take care of Aadhaar data
authenticate themselves over certain parameters Aadhaar, PAN, and Driving Licence and keep Aadhaar details in the Aadhaar vault as
before granting accessing the service • Reusable User Profile: Users will be able to per the guidelines of the Aadhaar Act
•
In-house Parichay Authenticator adds extra
level of security
• User Analytics: Analytics Dashboard tracks log
Fig. 8.4: MeriPehchaan Application Layers
events for user and service sessions
• Unified Partner Portal: Unified Partner Portal
to on-board applications and get verified
information about Users who has logged in via
Meri Pehchan
Summary
The well-designed NSSO solution will
significantly reduce complexities of applications
regarding the authentication infrastructure and
identity management, subsequently, decreasing
their maintenance cost while increasing the
security. The platform offers various additional
benefits i.e., strengthening password policy,
reducing risk of data breach, centralised access
control, reduced workloads and most importantly
ease of doing business.
This would result in a scalable framework of-
fered by the Government to the citizens with a
standardised user interface across all the three
SSOs thereby enabling a NSSO platform. It will
be a stepping stone towards enhancing Govern-
ment-to-Citizen services.

Contact for more details
Amit Kumar
National Informatics Centre
Delhi IT Park, Shastri Park, New Delhi -110053
Email: amit.kr@nic.in , Phone: 011-24305367

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