{"id":228289,"date":"2022-03-30T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T23:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/?p=228289"},"modified":"2022-03-30T00:07:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T23:07:43","slug":"indian-maharashtra-state-pivots-to-polygon-for-digital-caste-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/indian-maharashtra-state-pivots-to-polygon-for-digital-caste-certificates\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Maharashtra state pivots to Polygon for digital caste certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government of Maharashtra, one of the most industrialized states in India, has issued 65,000 digital caste certificates based on the Polygon blockchain technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m excited to announce that the Government of Maharashtra (Gadchiroli district) has set a new global precedent for Web3 adoption\u2014for on-chain E-governance,\u201d wrote Shubham Gupta, an assistant collector,\u00a0 and project officer in the Government of Maharashtra, in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/shubham-gupta-a033b620a_blockchain-web3-egovernment-activity-6914213377137405952-mhwE\">LinkedIn post<\/a>, adding:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cFor the first time in India, Gadchiroli district (Etapalli Subdivision) will issue caste certificates to its citizens that are anchored on an open permissionless blockchain- verifiable within a matter of a few seconds!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">For the first time in \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3 65000 caste certificates have been issued on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/0xPolygon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@0xPolygon<\/a> network by the Maharashrta government.<\/p>\n<p>A big thank you to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MartisNeil?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MartisNeil<\/a> founder <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LegitDocIndia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LegitDocIndia<\/a> for convincing and executing the project.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to our Young dynamic IAS officer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShubhamGupta_11?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ShubhamGupta_11<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t00BZgWlrD\">pic.twitter.com\/t00BZgWlrD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kashif Raza (@simplykashif) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/simplykashif\/status\/1508461224278695947?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A caste certificate, also colloquially known as a community certificate, is a legal document issued in accordance with the Indian Constitution that serves as a documentary proof of a person belonging to a specific caste.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cCaste certificates are used to provide certain privileges to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes to bring equality among all the citizens. Thus, a caste certificate is mandatory for receiving any such benefits for a person belonging to Scheduled Cast or Scheduled Tribe community,\u201d per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiafilings.com\/learn\/caste-certificate\/\"><i>IndiaFilings<\/i><\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gupta further explained that new certificates were issued via a blockchain platform called <a href=\"https:\/\/legitdoc.com\">LegitDoc<\/a>, which is based on the proof-of-stake technology utilized by the Polygon network.<\/p>\n<p>According to LegitDoc\u2019s website, the system allows to issue and verify tamper-proof digital documents and is \u201cfree from any kind of central failure, security lapses, and budget constraints.\u201d Later, such documents can ostensibly be verified from any part of the world \u201cin just a matter of 10 seconds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As <i>CryptoSlate <\/i>reported, the Polygon blockchain has also recently become <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/switzerland-aims-to-become-the-next-crypto-utopia-as-lugano-makes-bitcoin-and-usdt-legal-tender\/\">Tether\u2019s main infrastructure partner<\/a> in facilitating stablecoin payments in Lugano, Switzerland. In early March, the city\u2019s mayor Michele Foletti announced that Bitcoin, USDT, and Lugano\u2019s own LVGA Points token will be recognized as de-facto currencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government of Maharashtra, one of the most industrialized states in India, has issued 65,000 digital caste certificates based on the Polygon blockchain technology. \u201cI\u2019m excited to announce that the Government of Maharashtra (Gadchiroli district) has set a new global precedent for Web3 adoption\u2014for on-chain E-governance,\u201d wrote Shubham Gupta, an assistant collector,\u00a0 and project officer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":472,"featured_media":228356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,37],"tags":[65672],"prediction_market_topic":[],"post_folder":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.9 (Yoast SEO v21.9.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Indian Maharashtra state pivots to Polygon for digital caste certificates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A total of 65,000 new documents have been issued using Polygon-based blockchain platform LegitDoc.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/indian-maharashtra-state-pivots-to-polygon-for-digital-caste-certificates\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Indian Maharashtra state pivots to Polygon for digital caste certificates\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A total of 65,000 new documents have been issued using Polygon-based blockchain platform LegitDoc.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/indian-maharashtra-state-pivots-to-polygon-for-digital-caste-certificates\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"CryptoSlate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-03-29T23:00:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-03-29T23:07:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/india-polygon.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Liam Frost\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cryptoslate\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cryptoslate\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Liam Frost\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/indian-maharashtra-state-pivots-to-polygon-for-digital-caste-certificates\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/indian-maharashtra-state-pivots-to-polygon-for-digital-caste-certificates\/\"},\"author\":{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/author\/liam-frost\/#person\",\"name\":\"Liam Frost\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/author\/liam-frost\/\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/author\/liam-frost\/\"},\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/author\/liam-frost\/#authorimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/author-liam-frost-300x300.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/author-liam-frost-300x300.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Liam Frost\"},\"jobTitle\":\"Reporter\",\"description\":\"Liam Frost is a freelance journalist and editor with over 15 years of experience working for various media outlets across the world. 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