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37 mobile manufacturing plants set up in last 1 year: Ravi Shankar Prasad

He said that 11 crore mobile phones have been made in the country in last one year compared to 6 crore earlier

International arbitration skewed in favour of developed world: Ravi Shankar Prasad

He said that India has the finest judges, but only a small fraction are represented in the world arbitration process

Prasad blasts Cong on scam allegation

Prasad said the absurd charges came as the process was on for sending notices to telecom companies to recover legitimate due

Ravi Shankar Prasad takes charge as Law Minister

Prasad was earlier moved out of the Law Ministry in November 2015

Quality of calls improving, says Prasad

Private telecom operators have decided to invest Rs 12,000 crore for installation of 60,000 more towers over the next three months

IT Minister asks Nitish to expedite IT initiatives in Bihar

Ravi Shankar Prasad wrote a letter to the CM about lack of proposal for setting up electronics manufacturing cluster in Nalanda district

Telecom Minister rules out penal power to Trai

'The authority has enough power to protect the interest of consumers,' said Ravi Shankar Prasad

US companies can't live without our IT players: Ravi Shankar Prasad

Prasad also asked the software exporters to not be anxious by the US visa issue

Payment banks to have initial corpus of Rs 800 crore: Ravi Shankar Prasad

Payments bank of department of posts will be functional by March 2017

Self-regulation is for self-satisfaction of companies: Ravi Shankar Prasad

Interview with Minister for Communications & Information Technology

Digital India to be $1-trn economy in 5-7 yrs: Prasad

Ravi Shankar Prasad, the Union minister for communication and information technology, said he expected Digital India to be a $1 trillion economy in the next five to seven years.Prasad was speaking at the launch of LG's K7 and K10 smartphones here. With this, LG joins the long list of foreign companies to participate in the government's ambitious 'Make in India' initiative. The newly launched devices will be manufactured at the company's plant in Noida. He said to ensure the progress of programmes such as Digital India and Startup India from ground zero, the government has five initiatives to strengthen digital infrastructure.The first step involves connecting 250,000 gram panchayat clusters through an optical fibre network, actually started in 2011-12.Prasad said, "When our government came into power, the total optical fibre laid down was only 327 km and the total optical piping was 2,200 km. In less than two years, we have laid down nearly 135,000 km of optical pipes and 115,000 km of

Govt receives proposals worth Rs 1,20,000 cr for electronics manufacturing

In 2014-15, 54 million mobile units were assembled and manufactured in the country, which has more than doubled to 110 million units in 2015-16