IIT Kanpur to design Rs 334-mn blockchain architecture for e-governance

Funded with Rs 334-million by cybersecurity agency for blockchain platform

Even as the jury is still out on the blockchain technology in India, the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K) has been engaged by a central cybersecurity agency to develop an indigenous blockchain architecture.

The Rs 334-million project has been commissioned by the Office of the National Cyber Security Coordinator to develop a blockchain platform to be used in e-governance. Noted cybersecurity expert Gulshan Rai is currently holding the post of the National Cyber Security Coordinator.

IIT-K professors Manindra Agrawal and Sandeep Shukla of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering are the principal investigators, who would work in collaboration