India has Become the World’s Second Largest Smartphone Manufacturer

On Monday, Union Minister Mr. Ravi Shankar Prasad said that India has become the world’s second largest smartphone manufacturer and has a clearly established objective of outshining China.

Union Minister said, “When we first came to power in 2014, India had just two smartphone factories, now India has over 260. India has been the world’s second-biggest mobile maker. I’m aiming to reach at the top right now and that’s my dream.”

Mr. Ravi Shankar, speaking on the ‘Leveraging ICT for Economic Revival in Post COVID-19 Era’, said, “The ecosystem of Digital India, which we developed, finalised and sorted to bring on the ground, given a major ecosystem to face the COVID challenge. Simply put, Digital India is built to empower common man with the power of technology.”

He further said that, in the last five and a half years, the hundreds of government schemes, have provided nearly Rs. 13,000,000 crore (US$ 1.76 trillion) to the bank accounts of the poor.

He said, “In the last 5.5 years, we have delivered almost Rs. 13,00,000 crore (US$ 1.76 trillion) in 440 government schemes to the bank accounts of the poor, MGNREGA payment, gas link subsidy and food subsidy, etc. And we saved Rs. 1,70,000 crore (US$ 23.05 billion), which the intermediaries earned.”

“We built the welfare delivery system with India’s 1.3 billion-plus population, 1.2 billion mobile phones, 1.26 billion Aadhaar cards. Via leveraging all this with the Jan Dhan account.”

In the end, without any intermediaries, the progressive design of digital India that we have envisioned could impact the lives of ordinary people through digital delivery.

He added, “When the COVID arrived, the question raised a serious challenge. Then we got the idea of working from home. There have been a variety of challenges with regulatory requirements, with financial requirements. I said all this should be stopped. And 85% of the IT industry in India today works from home.”

Source: IBEF