The government’s Digital India initiative is a $1 trillion (roughly Rs. 66,33,544 crores) business opportunity across IT and IT-enabled services, telecom and electronics manufacturing, Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said in Mumbai on Wednesday. “Nearly…
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