India
oi-Vicky Nanjappa
New Delhi, Feb 17: When chips were down, Indian IT industry’s code kept things running, did wonders during pandemic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said.
In the past, Indian IT could not take advantage of domestic opportunity and digital divide kept widening, the Prime Minister also said. The PM was addressing the NASSCOM Technology and Leadership Forum.
In a major move, policies regarding mapping & geospatial data have been liberalised for the industry. This step will empower our tech start-up eco-system & further our Aatma Nirbhar Bharat mission.
Our heavily cash dependant society is now transforming into a cashless economy, the PM also said.
There was a time when we were dependent on other countries for smallpox vaccines. Today we are providing other countries with Made in India vaccines to fight the pandemic.
In order to make India the global…