Unique digital address for every home in India: Report
New Delhi: In a move aimed at enhancing service delivery and emergency response, the Department of Posts has unveiled a new digital addressing system that assigns a unique digital code to every residence and office across India.
The National Addressing Grid or the Digital Postal Index Number (DIGIPIN) marks a significant advancement over the traditional PIN code system. Unlike area-based PIN codes, the new system provides a 12-digit alphanumeric code that is unique to each property, as reported by The New Indian Express on Saturday.
“In a nutshell, it is a democratisation of the address system with each individual having a unique one. This is an open-source, geo-coded, grid-based digital address system,” TNIE quoted a senior official in the department as saying.
He explained that the initiative is still in its early stages, but as it evolves, individuals will be able to simply provide their name, house number, and DIGIPIN to ensure smooth and accurate delivery of services.
Developed in collaboration with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), IIT Hyderabad, and the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), the DIGIPIN system leverages latitude and longitude coordinates to assign addresses with pinpoint accuracy.
The official noted that the system would be particularly useful in ensuring last-mile delivery in remote and hilly areas, where homes often lack door numbers and rely on landmarks for identification.
The initiative aims to streamline not only mail delivery but also a broad spectrum of services, including emergency response and welfare programs. The official added that key government initiatives such as vaccination drives or distributing supplies to pregnant women could be carried out more efficiently if a DIGIPIN-based geo-locationing is implemented.
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Two injuries, one DNF, a DQ as India end messy World Relays campaign
Gaborone (Botswana) (PTI): Amoj Jacob and Ragul Kumar got injured during the men's 4x400m and 4x100 races respectively as India ended their World Athletics Relays campaign in disappointment on the second day of competitions here on Sunday.
The Indian camp had high hopes of making the 2027 World Championships in the men's 4x400m relay but the team did not finish (DNF) the race as Jacob suffered cramps and pulled out of the race after taking the baton from the first leg runner Dharamveer Choudhary. Rajesh Ramesh and Vishal TK were to run in the third and fourth legs.
Those teams which could not qualify for the 2027 Beijing World Championships by reaching the final round of each of the six relay events on Saturday were given another chance in the second qualification round on Sunday.
The top two teams in each of the two heats (in all six relay events) booked the Beijing ticket on Sunday.
India will now have to try and qualify for the World Championships through the Top Lists of the World Athletics, which is a long and tedious process.
In the men's 4x100m race, third leg runner Ragul Kumar fell down the track after failing to hand over the baton inside the exchange zone to fourth leg runner Gurindervir Singh, which clearly showed the lack of coordination among the runners.
Harsh Santosh Raut and Animesh Kujur ran the first two legs.
The Indian quartet was disqualified and Kumar was seen being taken away from the Field of Play with the help of the volunteers.
It was a comedy of errors in the case of the women's 4x100m race, which saw the baton being dropped during an exchange between first leg runner Tamanna and second runner Nithya Gandhe, though the Indians finished the race in 53.09 seconds.
Gandhe started running quite a distance, but after realising that the baton was not in her hand, she turned and ran back to pick it up.
The only silver-lining for the Indian contingent was the national record time in the mixed 4x100m relay race, though the quartet of Ragul Kumar, Nithya Gandhe, Animesh Kujur and Sneha SS finished sixth in heat number two with a time of 41.35 seconds, bettering the previous national mark of 42.30 seconds set in March in Chandigarh.
The mixed 4x400m relay quartet of Theerthesh P Shetty, Kumari Saloni, Nihal William and Rashdeep Kaur ended at fifth in heat number one with a time of 3 minutes and 19.40 seconds.
On Saturday, all the five Indian relay teams had failed to make it to the respective final rounds and thus missed out on the 2027 World Championships berths.
