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digital divides; encourages     ULIP has a dedicated portal
                                                 cross-sectoral and inter-     that makes the process of data
                                                 governmental coordination     request simpler, faster, and
                                                 and collaboration.            transparent. The portal can be
                                                   ULIP has been integrated    accessed through “https://goulip.
                                                 with 34 systems of 8 different   in/”. A dedicated support team is
                                                 ministries through 112 APIs   working round the clock to provide
                                                 covering 1800+ fields. Within   support to the industry players for
                                                 10 months of its launch on    registration on the portal. After the
                                                 17th September 2022, ULIP     registration, users need to submit
                                                 has received registration from   their use-cases, which will then be
                                                 over 570 industry players with   reviewed based on the proposed
                                                 the willingness to access data   usage of the requested data.
                                                 through ULIP out of which 97    Major industry players like Maruti
                                                 entities have already signed   Suzuki, DHL, Safexpress, Ultratech,
                                                 NDA and taking the benefits   TCIL, Jindal Stainless, Tata Steel,
                                                 of ULIP platform.             Yes Bank, BOSCH, Total Group,
                                                   There are nearly 100 million   etc. have been onboarded on
                                                  API transactions commenced   ULIP to develop their use-cases
                                                 so far over ULIP gateway by   that benefit them and their
                                                 the industry players.         stakeholders alike.




          Transport & Highways to get        no based verification shall         implementation of APIS provided
          the details of drivers & vehicles   ensure that their details are auto   by various ports under the Ministry
          verified with the help of VAHAN    filled & verified from various      of Ports, Shipping & Waterways.
          & SARTHI API’s, this will help     govt agencies on real time basis.   The same is under implementation
          our customers avoid frauds            Some of the other use cases      & shall soon go live.
          & shall increase the security      are under implementation & work       The vision of Zipaworld is
          & authenticity of drivers &        is going on the development         in alignment with that of the
          vehicles plying on roads. Apart    of relevant backend & frontend      National logistics policy 2022
          from this the Fastag based         structure to consume those APIS:-   introduced by Prime Minister
          tracking is helping us share real   1. Ministry of Railway             Narendra Modi on his birthday
          time updates about vehicle         We are coming up with our           on 17th September 2022. The
          movements to our customers.        product of offering railways        PM in his speech stated that this
                                             as a mode of transport within       policy will significantly cut down
          3. Ministry of Commerce and        India wherein the API’s provided    the logistics cost and bring it
          Industry                           by Railway Ministry FOIS shall      down from 14 percent to a single
          We integrated the API’s from       be very beneficial & shall help     digit that will place India at par
          DGFT to verify the details of the   provided real time status of train   with countries that are known
          shippers & consignees exporting    movement to get updates on          for their developed logistics
          or importing goods to or from      when the cargo shall reach the      infrastructure. Hence integrating
          India. This helps in getting the   consumer.                           our platform with ULIP shall help
          Customer KYC verified & reduces    2. Ministry of Finance              us in achieving the vision of our
          the hassles of our customers to    We are also working on              Prime Minister.
          submit multiple documents.         implementing the ICEGATE API          Zipaworld also majorly focuses
                                             to get the status of the shipment   on two key factors multimodal
          4. Ministry of Electronics &       clearance from ICEGATE portal.      logistics & digitization to be the
          Information Technology (MeitY)     3. National Industrial Corridor     key to unlock the pain areas of the
          We integrated the API’s            Development Corporation             logistics sector and believes them
          provided by MEITY like GST,        (NICDC)                             to be imperative in the growth of
          MCA & Digilocker under which       THE LDB API created by NICDC        the export import market.
          we integrated PAN, ADHAAR          is also under implementation &        All these initiatives are in
          based data. This is helping        shall soon be going live on our     line with the common vision of
          us get the customer details        portal wherein any user can easily   empowering the logistics industry
          verified & is speeding up the      track the status of any container   to bring the digital change our
          customer onboarding process.       movement within the country.        industry has been waiting for long
          The customers are not required     4. Ministry of Ports, Shipping      & the introduction of ULIP is just
          to share documents over mail or    and Waterways                       the beginning of the digital era
          physical copies, just a Document   We have multiple use cases for      of logistics.
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