Highlighting benefit of digital infrastructure to achieve the goal of trebling Gross domestic product (GDP) to $7.5 trillion over the next five years, Telecom Secretary Aruna Sundararajan has said that India needs three-fold increase in digital infra over next five years and noted that the country can emerge as a digital leader at the global level.
Telecom Secretary stated that the government will play a facilitating role for making this happen so that the private sector takes the lead in investing. She also listed the government’s efforts on both data protection as well as data security, adding that its department is currently finalising the new telecom policy which will come out in this year. Apart from digital infra, she has also expressed need to adopt a liberal approach, embrace open source and an open culture like the information technology sector have done.
Sundararajan mentioned that government is aggressively working towards introducing the fifth generation telecom networks and the reliance on cloud will make open-source very critical. Telecom Secretary also appreciated the new entrant -Reliance Jio for its aggressive play with setting new benchmarks on the aspirations front. She said Jio has seized the opportunity available by creating appropriate products and services, and also created thousands of jobs.