India’s foremost policy institute and think tank is exploring blockchain applications in a number of sectors including education, health and agriculture.
The National Institute of Transforming India (NT), the government’s primary policy-making body, is eyeing the use of blockchain technology with work toward a proof-of-concept (PoC) to trial the decentralized technology across a number of sectors.
According to the Economic Times, the PoC will be put to use in a number of areas including education, healthcare and agriculture that are identified as ‘key sectors’ according to one senior government official. “It is a safe system for document verification” in those pre-approved sectors, the official added, hinting at a sweeping and wider implementation of the technology across the public domain.