“Reviewed the final draft of the much-awaited National Digital Communications Policy 2018<\/a> with colleagues in the department. We hope to make it available for public feedback soon,” Sinha tweeted Wednesday<\/span>.<\/span>
Led by Sinha, the telecom department’s top officials including telecom secretary Aruna Sundararajan and special secretary N Sivasailam discussed the draft provisions of the yet to be launched national policy.
The new policy is expected to contain a wide range of industry goals to meet the national digital targets with a special focus on futuristic broadband technologies such as the fifth-generation (5G) technology as well as Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence.
“The new policy will be forward-looking and current challenges of new technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence will be taken care of,” Sinha earlier told ETTelecom.
The new framework is also expected to focus on providing affordable Internet access to 1.3 billion Indians and facilitate domestic manufacturing to curb dependence on imports.
Some of the key areas of the upcoming policy to facilitate digital access, according to a top official, include future-ready technologies, broadband for all, next generation of digital services besides a focus on India’s transformation into a trillion-dollar economy.
The new national policy would also bring in much-desired elements such as innovation-led incentives and investor-friendly regime and aims to simplify regulations for telecom industry.
The discussions between the stakeholders and department were however on for last one year for the new National Digital Communications Policy 2018 that would also aim to attract investors with a target of at least $100 billion by 2022.
Telecom watchdog Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai<\/a>) had already suggested that the new policy should include address ‘ease of doing business’ by rationalising the existing licensing and regulatory framework.
To protect the security of this nation and its people and responsibility to create new jobs are the pillars of empowerment and that can be delivered by the National Digital and Telecom Policy, Reliance Jio<\/a> President Mathew Oommen<\/a> earlier said.
The policy, however, is also likely to enable telecom sector to generate 2 million new jobs, high-speed Internet access to with renewed targets and 100% tele-density by 2022, and aims to provide at least 1 Gbps data connectivity to all village blocks to enable wireless broadband services by 2022.
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