Launching the programme, Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar stated that as India moves ahead there is one indisputable truth that India’s moment in terms of relevance and sustainability in the world has arrived and the next 10 years as our Prime Minister says it, would be ‘India’s Techade’. The rationale behind this was when in 2014 the Prime Minister launched the ‘Digital India’ programme there were three objectives. In his words, “India moves from being a consumer of technology to a creator of intellectual properties and technologies.”
