Blockchain & crypto news from India
The Indian government has a long running program of offering e-governance services at various levels to offer public services. While Indian states have begun adopting blockchain technologies in areas such as property records, there is also the ambitious National Blockchain Project, which aims to develop these e-governance technologies using blockchain as a public and transparent…
The Kanpur Development Authority (KDA) is ready to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the Indian Institute of Technology – Kanpur to explore opportunities in blockchain technology and to onboard the institution as its ‘knowledge partner.’
For the 61 winners of the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Pursaskar (PMRBP) 2021 and 2022, the award was special in ways more than one, as they received digital certificates that use blockchain-driven technology created by IIT Kanpur under the National Blockchain Project. Abhay Karandikar, Director of IIT Kanpur said on Tuesday that in a first,…
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the 54th convocation ceremony of IIT-Kanpur where he introduced the blockchain-driven degree transfer technology with which digital degrees were offered to the students. The ceremony was conducted in hybrid mode and Yogi Adityanath, Chief Minister also attended the event as the guest of honor. The students who didn’t…