India 2021

In the year 2021, economist Suman Bery was appointed as the new vice-chairperson of NITI Aayog. To establish an international standard Data Centre in the state a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed by the government of Tripura and the NIXI-CSC Data Services Centre. ICICI released digital platform ‘Merchant Stack’ to provide banking services to retail merchants. Ajay Kumar Sood was appointed as the central government’s principal scientific advisor (PSA). Aaditya Thackeray, the state environment minister of Maharashtra inaugurated Mumbai’s first digital bus with a unique ‘Tap-in Tap-out’ feature.