Modi's Government to encourage Start-ups on Technology front: Ravi Shankar Prasad

In the wake of seeing disruptive product advancements exhibited by 11 software product firms curated by iSPIRT – India's first software product industry think tank, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister for IT, Telecom and Law, said, one of his necessities is to energize the start-up group in the nation.

"Start-ups need encouragement and in the wake of listening to a percentage of the main 3-4 issues that need to be tended to, I have chosen to make prompt move on some of them. Case in point, open APIs, standards and guidelines will be made accessible to the start-up industry, with the perspective to guarantee that we have a solid development of applications and products in the nation," he said. Expressing that the administration's top priority is to empower electronic assembling in an enormous manner, he said, "when mobile phone penetration in India is so high, why don't we make mobile phones in India? I am pushing for it in an enormous manner as it has huge potential for development and employment."

Products for Small towns

He urged start-ups to create software products that will profit Tier-2 and Tier-3 towns, for example, parts of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and North East and not simply confine themselves to creating products that will profit Bangalore, Hyderabad, Delhi, Pune and so forth.

He said enhancing e-governance in India is an alternate priority for the new government. "India is at the cusp of a broadband, IT and Internet unrest and I need every one of you to be a piece of it. I need more Googles and Facebooks in India and more patents coming from India, I need additionally extraordinary organizations to keep the banner of India flying high."

What troubles him most in the wake of listening to 30 hours of presentation is that, broadband penetration in India is short of what Srilanka and Malaysia. "On the off chance that every one of you sitting here can make ponders for the world with your developments, why wouldn't we be able to as an aggregate substance achieve broadband to all the corners of India. I am not a specialized individual yet I realize that it is the way of content that drives interest for that content. I have seen a ton of influential content here, would we be able to make content for training, medicinal services, excitement and so on. On the off chance that you make incredible content with software product development, India will lap it up and I will remained by you."

Digital highways

Expressing that his first excursion as a Minister of IT outside of Delhi is to Bangalore, he said the Prime Minister's vision is that India must be digitally associated and each town in India must be joined with broadband.

"While Vajpayee's administration was known for national highways, Modi's legislature will be known for digital highways. The PM needs all the colleges, universities and schools to be digitally associated through Wi-Fi."