Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday urged all the stakeholders in the telecom sector to work with the government to ensure a timely rollout of the 5G.
PM Modi said while addressing the India Mobile Congress (IMC) that the industry should work in tandem to make India a global hub for telecom equipment, design, development and manufacturing.
He further added that mobile technology and industry add billions of dollars’ worth of benefits that later become available to millions of Indians. This is due to the mobile technology that the government was able to help the poor and vulnerable "quickly” during the pandemic.
"Let us work together to make India a global hub for telecom equipment, design, development and manufacturing," IANS quoted PM Modi.
"It is because of mobile technology that we are seeing billions of cashless transactions which boost formalisation and transparency. It is because of mobile technology that we will enable smooth contactless interface on toll booths," the Prime Minister told the industry participants.
Commending the telecom and technology players amid the pandemic and the lockdown, Modi said that it was because of the efforts of the industry and its innovations that the world was functional even during the pandemic, including connectivity, education and business and other operations.
