Digital India gets Rs 4.

5 lakh crore push

Via Financial Chronicle | Jul 02, 2015
He said Digital India was targeted at leveraging economy to improve quality of l
ife for poor people. Reliance
Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani led half a dozen industry captains in support
of digital India. He said,
normally industry moves faster than the government, but with Digital India, its d
ifferent the government
has moved faster . While Ambani announced $ 39.3 billion investments in IT power p
lay, his archrival and
competitor, Sunil Bharti Mittal, chairman of Bharti group committed $ 16 billion
. Tata group chairman Cyrus
Mistry hailed the prime minister for giving vision and focus on digital infrastru
cture utility providing
governance and service in real time and digitally empowering citizens . Microsoft
global chief executive
Satya Nadella, through a televised live video-link, announced the technology maj
or s willingness to partner
the Indian government via its marquee cloud services.