World fascinated with digitisation of India: EAM Jaishankar

Dharwad: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday said the world is fascinated with the digitisation of India.

“What is the world’s fascination with India? Today? It is in the digitisation of India,” the EAM said while interacting with intellectuals in Dharwad, Karnataka.

“In 2014, six crore people had access to broadband. Today, it is 80 crore. From six it has gone to 80. Internet was used by 25 crore people. It is today 85 crores. We have laid optical fiber cable of 25 lakh kilometres in this country,” Jaishankar said.