Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday while addressing the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) ministerial session said that around 400 comprehensive GIS-based maps have already been prepared under the PM GatiShakti National Master Plan. Ashwini Vaishnaw, Minister for Communications, Electronics & IT and Railways, Dr. P. D. Vaghela, Chairman TRAI, Officials of TRAI, and other dignitaries were present during the session.
Goyal emphasized that the revolutionary PM GatiShakti initiative would help solve the problem of haphazard development of infrastructure in the country and will help us build a secure, sustainable, scalable, and collaborative approach toward infrastructure planning.
He expressed his appreciation for the progress made by the telecom sector in the last few years, especially with regard to bridging the digital divide. He said that Information Technology and last-mile digital connectivity will have an impact on every sector and would be the foundation of India’s growth story in the years to come. Digital India would form the foundation for aatmanirbhar Bharat.
The Minister opined that the launch of Digital India and JAM Trinity (Jan Dhan-Aadhar-Mobile) was a watershed moment in the history of the country and said that it revolutionized the way public services were delivered to the common man. He added that the JAM Trinity helped take the fruits of technology to the common man, bringing down transaction costs, and eliminating middlemen, leakages, and corruption from the system.
Goyal also noted that under the leadership of PM Modi, 5G will contribute USD 450 billion to the Indian economy in the next 15 years. It will help in digitizing the economy, boosting the startup ecosystem, improving governance, ease of living, and ease of doing business in the country.
