PIB TrackerTen crore Farmer IDs, and the registries belong to the states
DARPG's 20th e-Governance Webinar showcased AgriStack and e-Jagriti — a federated farm registry across 31.36 crore surveyed plots, and one digital pipeline for consumer disputes.
What happened
- DARPG held the 20th National e-Governance Webinar on government process re-engineering.
- AgriStack (Gold) and e-Jagriti (Silver) were the showcased National Awards for e-Governance 2026 winners.
- The Digital Crop Survey is operational across 31.36 crore plots in 648 districts.
- More than 10 crore unique Farmer IDs and 5.52 lakh geo-referenced village maps exist.
- e-Jagriti links the national, state and district consumer commissions in one digital workflow.
For Prelims
- AgriStack: agriculture Digital Public Infrastructure built on three registries — the Farmers' Registry, the Crop Sown Registry and geo-referenced village maps.
- Federated design: the registries are created, owned and managed by states and union territories, interoperable across the national ecosystem.
- Coverage: Digital Crop Survey across 31.36 crore plots in 648 districts; over 10 crore Farmer IDs; 5.52 lakh village maps.
- Integrations: Farmer IDs are being linked with PMFBY, PM-AASHA, MahaDBT and MSP procurement.
- e-Jagriti: a unified digital ecosystem for consumer dispute resolution across the National, State and District Consumer Commissions, presented by the National Informatics Centre.
- e-Jagriti workflow: online filing, digital scrutiny, payments, hearings, orders and disposal, with virtual and hybrid hearings and automated cause lists.
- The awards: Gold to AgriStack and Silver to e-Jagriti in the Central Level Initiatives category of the National Awards for e-Governance 2026.
- The forum: the National e-Governance Webinar series run by DARPG, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; this edition drew over 1,200 officials.
For UPSC: Two working examples of process re-engineering rather than portal-building, with numbers attached. Use them for e-governance, digital public infrastructure and citizen-centric service delivery.
What it is NOT: AgriStack is not a central farmer database — the registries are created, owned and managed by states and union territories, with the Centre supplying only interoperability.
For Mains
Syllabus: GS2.15 · GS2.10 · Linkage L2
Anchor
Digitisation fails when it merely puts a form online; it works when it settles who holds the record, and AgriStack leaves the registry with the state and standardises only the interface.
Substantiation (data)
31.36 crore plots surveyed across 648 districts, more than 10 crore Farmer IDs, 5.52 lakh geo-referenced village maps, and Farmer ID integration with PMFBY, PM-AASHA, MahaDBT and MSP procurement.
Exemplification
e-Jagriti replaces fragmented legacy systems across the national, state and district consumer commissions with a single workflow from filing to disposal.
Problematisation
A verified farmer identity now decides who receives crop insurance and MSP payments, so an exclusion error in the registry becomes exclusion from entitlements.
Way-forward
Publish state-wise registry completeness and the grievance rate on Farmer ID corrections, since the registry has become the gatekeeper for several schemes.
Position
The measure of a digital public infrastructure is how much paperwork it deletes, not how many services it lists.
Deploys into: e-Governance + government policies (GS2.15, GS2.10) · digital public infrastructure, process re-engineering and verified beneficiary identity.
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions · 2026-08-21 · PRID 2301987 · PIB source ↗