The Maharashtra government is mulling over a proposal from its Information and Technology department to monetise non-personal data from the pool of government beneficiaries that will be available on its digital platform “Samanvay”, which the government is set to unveil on October 2. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW VIDEO

A compilation of each and every beneficiary of government schemes made available on Samanvay portal is christened as Golden Data and the project will allow beneficiaries to access their information through a unique MahaID linked to their respective Aadhaar number.

“At present, we are test-running the portal. One of the proposals, once the portal starts running smoothly, is to monetise the data with private companies, start-ups and financial institutions. This is not an isolated

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