Rajeev Chandrasekhar forecasts digital economy to contribute over 20% of India’s GDP in 2026

18 Aug 2023 Evaluate

Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar has forecasted that the digital economy will contribute more than 20 per cent of India’s GDP in 2026. He said India is a preeminent nation that adopted technology very fast and has started offering solutions to the world. He noted that the digital economy gone from 4-4.5 per cent in 2014 of the total GDP to 11 per cent of the total GDP currently, and it is expected that the digital economy to contribute over 20 per cent of the country’s GDP by 2026.

According to him, India adopted technology not just for innovation in a broader sense, but to deliver real solutions that have transformed people's lives, governance and democracy in the last few years. He said ‘this pace of digitalisation means we are now looking at every citizen, every consumer consuming digital products or services, whether it is Instagram reels or Digital Public Infrastructure that connect them to the government and governance, or using the cloud and all of the upstream and downstream impacts that are created by this space and trend of digitalisation’.

Chandrasekhar said 'the centre of gravity of tech', which used to be in a few countries and centred around a few corporations and a few companies is moving to open source systems to younger and younger startups that are disrupting the normal. According to him, these trends are in turn capitalising on the broader trend of increased digitisation. Hailing Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his vision of maximum usage of digital technology, the Minister said he had called the coming decade as a 'Techade', a decade of technology opportunities.

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