Govt’s Focus On Enhancing Internet Penetration: IT Minister Chandrasekhar

The Minister highlighted that the bandwidth and latency of the Internet is the core for economic development. He said that Satellite along with Internet plays an important part in accelerating the digital economy

Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, Rajeev Chandrasekhar said that to boost the “underlying technologies like microelectronic and semiconductor to increase Internet penetration,” the Centre is initiating various collaborative measures, on 27 October.

The key to deliver quality Internet is SatCom. In order to enable Internet connectivity to 1.2 billion Indians by 2025-26, it is going to play an important role, said Chandrasekhar while addressing the India Space Congress 2022, organised by Satcom Industry Association.

The Minister further highlighted that the bandwidth and latency of the Internet is the core for economic development. He said that Satellite along with Internet plays an important part in accelerating the digital economy.

Director of Human Space Flight Centre, ISRO, R. Umamaheswaran, addressing the conference said that astronauts are being trained at Bengaluru for our first human flight to space by end 2024 or early 2025. We are working hard on the same.

The opportunities in the space industry have increased and participation by private players after reforms increased too. However, we need to keep in mind that the key to growth of the space industry comes with the growth of the electronics industry.