COVID e-Pass System
When sarkaar and bazaar come together: Creating the COVID e-Pass
Movement of citizens during lockdown
As national lockdown started in March, one of the challenges citizens faced was how to travel safely and legally when they had urgent personal reasons to do so. Administration and police personnel on the ground faced the problem of identifying those traveling for legitimate reasons vs. those who should not be permitted to travel. This is exactly the problem we set out to solve; within 72 hours from Lockdown 1.0, the COVID e-Pass system was created – a rapid adaptation made possible by leveraging the DIGIT Trade License solution. Madhya Pradesh became the first state to adopt this system.
Enabling delivery of essential services and goods
Post this, another important use case was to support providers of essential products and services to move seamlessly within the state. In this case, bulk passes had to be generated by the employer, and be accessible to the employees with ease. With the COVID e-Pass platform, authorities could issue passes for essential products & service providers and manufacturers to smoothly operate amidst this lockdown. We working in collaboration with organisations such as iSPIRT, Amazon Web Services, NeGD, and the Ministry of Consumer Affairs to co-create this bulk e-Pass solution.
COVID e-Pass platform for movement of essential services and goods
When sarkaar and bazaar come together: Creating the COVID e-Pass
Movement of citizens during lockdown
As national lockdown started in March, one of the challenges citizens faced was how to travel safely and legally when they had urgent personal reasons to do so. Administration and police personnel on the ground faced the problem of identifying those traveling for legitimate reasons vs. those who should not be permitted to travel. This is exactly the problem we set out to solve; within 72 hours from Lockdown 1.0, the COVID e-Pass system was created – a rapid adaptation made possible by leveraging the DIGIT Trade License solution. Madhya Pradesh became the first state to adopt this system.
Enabling delivery of essential services and goods
Post this, another important use case was to support providers of essential products and services to move seamlessly within the state. In this case, bulk passes had to be generated by the employer, and be accessible to the employees with ease. With the COVID e-Pass platform, authorities could issue passes for essential products & service providers and manufacturers to smoothly operate amidst this lockdown. We working in collaboration with organisations such as iSPIRT, Amazon Web Services, NeGD, and the Ministry of Consumer Affairs to co-create this bulk e-Pass solution.
COVID e-Pass platform for movement of essential services and goods
Integration with ‘Aarogya Setu’
The e-Pass platform was also integrated with ‘Aarogya Setu’, the Government of India’s COVID-19 contact tracing app. The first phase of this integration allowed the e-Pass system to check the health indicator of the individuals through Aarogya Setu before generating the e-Pass. Following this, a copy of the e-Pass was also made accessible through the individual’s ‘Aarogya Setu’ app, for ease of viewing and verification.
Sample e-Pass
Integration with ‘Aarogya Setu’
The e-Pass platform was also integrated with ‘Aarogya Setu’, the Government of India’s COVID-19 contact tracing app. The first phase of this integration allowed the e-Pass system to check the health indicator of the individuals through Aarogya Setu before generating the e-Pass. Following this, a copy of the e-Pass was also made accessible through the individual’s ‘Aarogya Setu’ app, for ease of viewing and verification.
Sample e-Pass
COVID e-Pass: Impact Snapshots
Daily passes issued
Total count of organizations from each state registered on the e-Pass platform
