Ravi Shankar Prasad: The minister who took on big tech over compliance

While Digital India, PLI for electronics have been big focus areas for him, Prasad will be remembered for sending a strong message to FB, WhatsApp and Twitter to follow the rules of the land

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Ravi Shankar Prasad | Twitter | big tech

Neha Alawadhi & Megha Manchanda  |  New Delhi 

On Wednesday evening, after the President accepted his resignation, the former Electronics and Information Technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad changed his Twitter bio to "Member of Parliament from Patna Sahib Lok Sabha, Bihar. BJP worker".

Prasad has had a long stint—seven years—in his role as the IT minister for the country, in a government focused heavily on technology and digitalisation. Programmes like Digital India, the Performance-Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme for electronics manufacturing, Common Service Centres, the Business Process Outsourcing ...

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First Published: Wed, July 07 2021. 19:22 IST
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