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    Rajeev Chandrasekhar speaks on India’s Techade with Nalin Mehta

    Nalin MehtaBy Nalin MehtaAugust 29, 2023Updated:September 9, 2023No Comments2 Mins Read
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    This interview was first published on  news18.com |  AUGUST 24, 2023

    Today is the sixth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s historic Puttaswamy judgment which made privacy a fundamental right under the Indian Constitution through a unanimous verdict by a 9-member bench. Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship and Electronics, was one of the petitioners in that historic judgment, as also in the previous Aadhaar judgment of the Supreme Court which upheld the legality of the Aadhaar Act in 2016.

    These judgments ultimately led to the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, which was shepherded by his ministry and passed by both houses of Parliament earlier this month. Chandrasekhar spoke to Network18 Group Consulting Editor Nalin Mehta on the implications of this legislation, India’s emerging Techade, challenges and questions over state over-reach in the privacy law and the recently announced restrictions on import laptops and computers.

    India’s Techade, the phrase that was in a sense coined by our honourable Prime Minister almost two years ago, is a very powerful phrase or slogan in many ways because it is signalling the way we see the opposition ideas around technology over the next decade.

    And to say that the next decade will be a decade full of technology opportunities for India and for young Indians is really what that phrase means. It is an absolute, very simple, yet clear way of describing our ambitions and goals as a country and as hundreds and thousands of young startups all over the country. For me, in particular, as I see it, this is the vision around which the Honorable Prime Minister launched Digital India in 2015, which is that technology must empower and transform the lives of all Indian citizens.

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    This interview was first published on  news18.com |   AUGUST 24, 2023

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    Professor Nalin Mehta is Dean, School of Modern Media, UPES; Advisor, Global University Systems and Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University Singapore. He is an award-winning social scientist, journalist and author who has held senior leadership positions in major Indian media companies; international financing institutions like the Global Fund in Geneva, Switzerland; taught and held research positions at universities and institutions in Australia (ANU, La Trobe University), Singapore (NUS), Switzerland (International Olympic Museum) and India (IIM Bangalore, Shiv Nadar University).

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