“People at the bottom of pyramid should be at the core of digitisation.” said Ashwini Vaishnaw, Minister of Railways, Communications and Electronics and Information Technology. Reiterating the Antyodaya philosophy of the government, he said that everything that we do shall aim to provide benefits, a transformative force and a better environment for the marginal sections of the society.
Addressing the session on “Leverage Digital Platforms to Build a Future-Ready India”at“Sankalp Se Siddhi”Summit here today, Vaishnaw highlighted the 5 themes/pointsthat can add value to development efforts of the government and industry pertaining to digitisation. These included- Electronics and other kind of manufacturing, Lead in Semiconductor sector, Use of public digital platforms and convergence between telecom and Information Technology to reap benefits of digitisation.
Talkingabout the growth made by electronics manufacturing in last decade, Vaishnaw said that electronics industry has made significant growth in last 7-10 years. It has grown to 80 billion dollar industry, employing around 25 lakh people and it’s well on its way to grow to 300 billion dollar industry in coming years. Lot of inputs have been received from industry for further increasing the growth of this industry and we are in process of implementing many of these suggestions.
Speaking on the potential of Semiconductor sector, he said that the sector is foundation stone for many industries including telecom, IT hardware, automobile, steel and heavy machinery etc. Our aim, he said, is to leverage our talent and build up the semiconductor industry in our country and scale it up in a consistent manner in next 10 to 15 years. He mentioned that government has undertaken some good initiatives in this regard which are also getting good response from the industry.
