India to push for digital public goods at G20: Sherpa Amitabh Kant

India will attempt to push for digital public goods at the G20 with an objective of transforming the lives of people in the Global South, its sherpa Amitabh Kant said Tuesday.

Addressing the eighth National Leadership Conclave held by All India Management Association (AIMA), he highlighted that globally there are 4 billion people who are without a digital identity and two-and-a-half billion people do not even have a bank account.

There are 133 countries in the world which do not have digital fast payments, he said.


He said India has been able to transform the lives of citizens and become a more productively efficient economy because of digitisation.

"How do we take this model of India to the rest of the world is the challenge and we will use the G-20 narrative to push this digital transformation story of India to the rest of the world and see how we can use this opportunity to transform the lives of citizens in the Global South and that is what is important," he said.

Kant detailed the advancements India has made in the field of digitisation and digital payments.

During his address, he listed India's critical priorities-the political narrative about India being a democracy with a strong and popular leader; the content and priorities for G-20 that India drives; and how India executes its G-20 presidency.