Photo courtesy of IPS The government’s 2026 budget outlines an ambitious and costly digitalisation agenda, allocating over Rs. 30 billion for a sweeping technological overhaul of the state apparatus. While presented as a leap towards efficiency, transparent governance and a modern digital economy, roseate presidential and official narratives hide major problems anchored to secrecy, the lack of essential legal safeguards and the absence of meaningful independent oversight. The concern is that digitalisation, far from being a simple modernisation effort, and while delivering significant benefits to society, could also lay permanent foundations for a powerful state surveillance architecture, fundamentally altering the…
Digitalisation in the 2026 Budget: Key Questions
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