India’s emphasis is on moving from being a consumer of tech to becoming producer and trusted tech player: MoS Chandrasekhar – Times of India
The Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Rajeev Chandrasekhar has said that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi government at the Centre believes in the power of technology and did not look at “Digital” as an outlier, but something that is deeply embedded in opportunities. “Today, we are living in most opportunity rich times in independent India’s history. We are at an inflection point where there are tremendous opportunities for growth of our economy. The Government is playing the enabler for the young Indians to dream and ensuring that those dreams turn into reality,” Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar said while addressing the “Techspectations Digital Summit” in Kochi, Kerala today.
The Summit was organised by the Manorama Online here to commemorate the completion of 25 years of their online platform. The Malayalam Manorama newspaper was started back in the year 1888. And its online platform was launched in 1997, a year before Google arrived.
The minister said that India can go up the ladder on Ease of Doing Business index, if all State Governments worked together with the Centre. “All State Governments are not performing at the same level of transparency and support to entrepreneurship and investments and have clung on to the vestiges of the past. If each of them worked in tandem with the Centre, India can move up to the No.1 position from the present 63rd,” he pointed out.
He said that the Modi government has redefined the goals for India with respect to technology, and has emphasised on moving from being a bland consumer of Western technology to becoming a producer of technology and a trusted tech player for the world.
The minister said that the Prime Minister Modi has envisioned that technology as that which should transform ordinary citizens lives and make an impact on governance and democracy. In furtherance of it, he stated that “Today when a subsidy leaves the government exchequer it reaches the beneficiary’s account without any leakage or corruption. This is what technology has done to transfer the lives of citizens”.
Giving the example of a recent visit of his to Zunheboto, a town in Nagaland, the minister stated that even in the remotest part of India technology is enabling the transfer of benefits with any hitch and building trust in Government.
The Summit was organised by the Manorama Online here to commemorate the completion of 25 years of their online platform. The Malayalam Manorama newspaper was started back in the year 1888. And its online platform was launched in 1997, a year before Google arrived.
The minister said that India can go up the ladder on Ease of Doing Business index, if all State Governments worked together with the Centre. “All State Governments are not performing at the same level of transparency and support to entrepreneurship and investments and have clung on to the vestiges of the past. If each of them worked in tandem with the Centre, India can move up to the No.1 position from the present 63rd,” he pointed out.
He said that the Modi government has redefined the goals for India with respect to technology, and has emphasised on moving from being a bland consumer of Western technology to becoming a producer of technology and a trusted tech player for the world.
The minister said that the Prime Minister Modi has envisioned that technology as that which should transform ordinary citizens lives and make an impact on governance and democracy. In furtherance of it, he stated that “Today when a subsidy leaves the government exchequer it reaches the beneficiary’s account without any leakage or corruption. This is what technology has done to transfer the lives of citizens”.
Giving the example of a recent visit of his to Zunheboto, a town in Nagaland, the minister stated that even in the remotest part of India technology is enabling the transfer of benefits with any hitch and building trust in Government.
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