 "Digital India, Make in India will bring marked change: Ravi Shankar Prasad")
Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday exuded confidence that Centre's various programmes like Digital India, Make in India, and Skill India will bring a marked change in the country.
"Digital India, Make in India, and Skill India are the main programmes which will bring a marked change in the country," he said at a function here.
"Out of the total population of 125 crore, 105 crore people have mobile phones... 107 crore have Aadhar cards, 50 crore use the Internet," the Union Minister of Electronics and Information Technology said.
Prasad claimed the number of mobile manufacturing companies in the country has gone up to 40 due to the concerted efforts of the government.
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