Data Nation’s Asset, Must Be Secured: Ravi Shankar Prasad
Knowledge sovereignty has turn out to be necessary, Ravi Shankar Prasad stated (Document)
Patna:
Knowledge is a country’s asset and it must be utilised correctly for reaching prosperity, particularly in sectors like healthcare, agriculture and schooling, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad stated on Saturday.
Holding this in thoughts, the federal government has introduced an information coverage legislation which is being tested by means of the make a choice committee of Parliament, he stated.
Watching that knowledge will have to be secured, Mr Prasad stated the federal government had within the first week of December final yr licensed the Non-public Knowledge Coverage Invoice that can spell out a framework for dealing with of private knowledge, together with its processing by means of private and non-private entities.
Ravi Shankar Prasad, who holds the Regulation and Justice, Electronics and Data Generation and Communications portfolios, was once handing over the Overdue Thakur Prasad Centenary Memorial Lecture on “Knowledge Privateness, Knowledge Safety and Knowledge Sovereignty”.
The programme was once organised by means of an organisation referred to as Aatma Bodh. Overdue Thakur Prasad, a veteran Jan Sangh chief who served as a minister in Bihar in 1977, is the daddy of the minister.
“Knowledge is a country’s asset. This nice asset of knowledge must be correctly used, processed and worth added for healthcare, agriculture and schooling. Due to this fact, now not most effective knowledge possession but additionally knowledge sovereignty turns into necessary,” the Union minister stated.
“If knowledge is a great asset it will have to be secured and vested into the sovereign energy of a rustic. Due to this fact, we’ve introduced knowledge coverage legislation which is being tested by means of the make a choice committee of the Parliament,” Mr Prasad stated.
He stated that Virtual India nowadays has turn out to be a transformative programme wherein not unusual Indians are getting empowered via generation.
“The good JAM trinity- Jan Dhan, Aadhaar and Cell – has ended in transformation in governance,” he stated.
The central govt has transferred just about Rs 11 lakh crore at once into the financial institution accounts of the deficient below direct get advantages switch (DBT) scheme and stored Rs 1.70 lakh crore which was once pocketed by means of faux beneficiaries and heart males, Prasad stated.
A virtual ecosystem generates numerous knowledge and the huge measurement and inhabitants of India with 120 crore plus cellphones and just about 70 crore plus web customers have turn out to be a brand new instrument within the arms of the typical guy, he stated.
The Union minister stated that Aadhaar itself undertakes 3 crore authentications on a daily basis.
Platforms like e-scholarship, e-hospitals, soil well being card, GSTN, UPI, Ayushman Bharat are all sport converting programmes that have progressed governance and supply, Mr Prasad added.
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