Lucknow: Digital India possible only if Digital UP happens, says Ravi Shankar Prasad


Lucknow, Feb 22 (PTI): Digital India cannot be achieved without a Digital UP, IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today while urging investors to invest confidently in India.

"India has huge potential in the field of IT," the minister said while speaking at the UP Investors summit. Highlighting the importance of UP, Prasad said Digital India cannot be achieved without Digital UP.

"There is a digital revolution going on all over the globe, l don't want India to lag behind where there are immense business opportunities," he said.

If you talk about social networks, India has largest users of FB, twitter and WhatsApp, Prasad said.

He further said that by 2020, out of the total number of mobile phones world would be using, a major percentage of those would be produced in India.

"There were only 2 mobile manufacturing centres when we came to power, now there are 118. Nokia had also closed. Now there are 118 and 54 are in Noida" he said.

Noida and Greater Noida have great potential and they can become next Singapore, he said.

The Union minister said that there are immense opportunities in setting up BPOs and the government is ready to help. He suggested BPOs can be set up in cities like Gorakhpur, Deoria among others as today everything from order to payment is just a click away. "IT should not be just India but India's Talent," he said.

  

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  • SMR, Karkala

    Thu, Feb 22 2018

    When PM Modi is giving counselling thorough is 'Pariksha pe charcha' for young students who are future voters, reports have claimed that over 10 lakh class 10 and 12 examinees skipped the state board tests in the last four days which is seen as an outcome of the tight screening and anti-copying measures implemented by the government.
    Unlike most educated states in India CM Yogi's Uttar Pradesh is 29 th in the list of 36 states six place below Karnataka literacy but no were near to Bangalore Silicon Valley of India.

    In 2017, the month wise toll of children’s deaths was: 152 in January, 122 in February, 159 in March, 123 in April, 139 in May, 137 in June, 128 in July and 213 in August. Most of these deaths happened in the hospital’s Neonatal ICU and the rest in the encephalitis ward.

    Till April this year, instances of dacoity were 91 as compared to 99 in 2015 and 77 in 2016. Loot cases stood at 1,352 till April this year as compared to 992 in 2015 and 1,186 in 2016. Murder cases stood at 1,364 till April as compared to 1,395 in 2015 and 1,513 in 2016.

    Rape rose from 849 in 2015 to 1,030 in 2016 and 1,266 till April this year. Instances of riots have gone up from 1,608 in 2015 to 2,539 till April this year.

    Crimes from murders to rapes to dacoities to caste conflicts and communal tensions as crimes soar in Uttar Pradesh, is Yogi Adityanath's seems his honeymoon phase over.
    CM Yogi who was five time MP from the same seat can't provide basic health care like oxygen to his own government run hospital, Is IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad is trying to build 'castle in the air'?

    Today's UP under CM Yogi by words stands 'Unplugged'. Information technology is far behind when focus of the party was ' Gau Mata' and 'Ayodhya'.

    Which nation will invest in state were security is least priority?
    Jai Hind

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  • Bhandara, Mumbai

    Thu, Feb 22 2018

    The first 3 responses says it all. In other words, in UP Cow comes first, Cow comes second and third also is Cow. IT has no place in UP! what a sorry state and Mr Ravi Shankar Prasad trying to scale Mount Everest in UP. All the best. There is no harm in dreaming.

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  • j.anata, Mangaluru / Bengaluru

    Thu, Feb 22 2018

    UP has the size of several African & European countries, if not more. But there is much to do, the state has been screwed beyond recognition

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  • INDIA, udupi

    Thu, Feb 22 2018

    Digital UP will happen once cow will become digital.

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  • mohammed, Al khobar

    Thu, Feb 22 2018

    FIRST YOGI SHOULD PASS SSLC...

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  • AHI Kuwait, kuwait

    Thu, Feb 22 2018

    so we have to wait for 1000 years more.

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  • Declan, Mumbai

    Thu, Feb 22 2018

    There is no shortage of stupid and idiotic ideas in this Modi government.
    Widespread illiteracy, lack of sufficient internet connectivity, unreliable connectivity, highly inefficient maintenance of digital/internet infrastructure, highly unsafe cyber networks which are relatively easy to hack.
    Looters only will be the biggest beneficiaries of digitalization to transfer huge amounts with just a click of the button. After all big money is needed to hold grand election rallies and the likes.

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  • Ahmed K.C., Mangalore

    Thu, Feb 22 2018

    Digital UP is a very far away. First prepare them to face SSLC exams independently.

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  • praveen, mangalore

    Thu, Feb 22 2018

    So lets start with the cows.. because cows come first then Humans in UP.

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  • Rolf, Dubai

    Thu, Feb 22 2018

    In Singapore people eat Beef .

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  • mohan sr., Mangalore

    Thu, Feb 22 2018

    So we have to wait another 1000 years ......

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  • Declan, Mumbai

    Thu, Feb 22 2018

    1000 years also seems very optimistic.

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