Digital India to empower all citizens to expand Digital Economy, create jobs: MoS MeitY

New Delhi, Sept 23 (KNN) PM Modi’s Government aims to connect all Indians with open, safe, trusted and accountable internet with the objective to expand digital economy to generate employment.

Addressing a workshop titled ‘Connecting all Indians’ organized by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), the Minister of State Rajeev Chandrasekhar said “It is Prime Minister’s vision through Digital India to empower all citizens with the power of Internet and to simultaneously expand the Digital economy and jobs.”

The workshop invited both public and private stakeholders including the largest internet service providers in the country – Jio, Airtel, officials from MeitY and the Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications, to discuss a roadmap to accelerate internet access in currently underserved and uncovered villages and towns of the country.

Keeping in view, the vision of the Prime Minister, world’s largest fiber-based rural broadband connectivity project BharatNet was also reviewed during the workshop. The Workshop deliberated upon strategies to immediately cover left out geographies and regions/villages.

This strategy workshop offered an open platform for both the public and private stakeholders to share their views on achieving universal internet coverage.