Hailing India’s IT industry, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, “Our local technology solutions have the potential to be global. It’s time for solutions developed in India but deployed for the world.”
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Thursday that the ‘Digital India’ project launched by the Center five years ago is no longer seen as a regular government initiative and has now become a way of life.
“Thanks to Digital India, our nation has seen a more human-centric approach to growth. Using technology on such a wide scale has brought a variety of life changes for our people. The advantages are for all to see,” said the Prime Minister at the opening of the 2020 Bengaluru Tech Summit.
Modi said the government has successfully created a market for digital and technological solutions. Technology has been a central part of all schemes. “Our governance model is ‘Technology First,’ he said.
Bringing to light the importance of technology in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, Modi said At the height of the lockdown, it was a technology that ensured that India’s poor received proper and quick assistance. There are few parallels to the scale of this relief.”
The Prime Minister said that a number of incubation centres are opening up in India when it comes to technology, the way forward lies in learning and growing together and following the approach. He also pointed to the culture of hackathons that have been organised in India over the last few years.
Talking of the transition from the industrial to the information age, Modi said The achievements of the industrial period are in the rear-view mirror, and now we are in the middle of the information age. The future is coming sooner than planned. The shift was linear in the industrial era. But in the information age, a transition is disruptive,” he said In the industrial era, first movers had an advantage over others. In the information age, however, the best-moving races were ahead, Modi said.
Hailing India’s IT industry, the Prime Minister said, “Our local technology solutions have the potential to be global. It’s time for solutions developed in India but deployed for the world.”
