The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) announced the IT resources of private sector lender ICICI Bank as critical infrastructure under Section 70 of the IT Act, 2000, indicating that any harm to it can have an influence on national security and any unpermitted person accessing it may be imprisoned for up to ten years, as per official notification. 

Meity identified IT resources of HDFC bank and UPI controlling organisation National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) as critical infrastructure in two other notifications.