Need to increase R&D investment, leverage India’s IT prowess for Aatmanirbhar Bharat: Trai

Increasing R&D investment to expand technology development capabilities and leveraging Indian IT industry’s prowess to serve requirements of Indian and global telecom players can help in moving towards Aatmanirbhar Bharat (self-reliant India), Trai chairman PD Vaghela said on Tuesday.
Speaking at the 15th India Digital Summit, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) Chairman PD Vaghela outlined some of the steps that can be taken to make “speedy progress and to make India self-reliant” in the telecom space.
“We need to increase investment in research and development (R&D), this is very important…To be self-reliant in the technology space, which is critical for economic and statistical perspective, we need to transform from consumer to producer of technology,” he said.