Working groups on new telecom policy this week

The Communications Ministry will this week set up working groups to give inputs on new telecom policy, which will seek to fuel India's growth and raise the digital contribution to the overall economy, a senior official said today.
Telecom Secretary Aruna Sundararajan said that following discussions with the industry and academia over broad contours of the new policy recently, working groups will now be set up to look at multiple aspects like ease of doing business and new technologies.
"The working groups will now start...The orders will be out this week. Initially, we had thought of 11 working groups but we may compress the number of such groups," Sundararajan said on the sidelines of a telecom conference organised by Assocham.

She said the groups will work on aspects such as ease of doing business, affordable internet and broadband for all, new technologies and other areas for the new policy.
"Today, India is trying to see how to step up growth from 7.6 per cent...Our aspiration is to grow at about 10 per cent. So what are the set of policies needed for making that transition. That is the bigger question," she said at the event.