New Delhi
The government today approved the new telecom policy and named it “National Digital Communications Policy 2018”, which is aimed at ensuring availability of at least 50 mbps broadband speed to every citizen of the country and at the same time attract $100-billion investment, which will create 40 lakh jobs in the sector by 2022.

Briefing media after the meeting of the Union Cabinet, which was chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha said since communication systems have been evolving at a rapid pace globally, especially in areas like 5G, Internet of Things and Machine to Machine information sharing, there has for long been a need felt to bring a “consumer-centric and application-driven policy” in the country.

Noting that the main objective of the new policy was to “connect, propel and secure India”, Sinha said, the policy would strive for “universal broadband connectivity at 50 Mbps speed to every citizen, 1 Gbps connectivity to all gram panchayats and ensure connectivity to all uncovered areas”.

“This is also aimed at attracting investments of $100 billion in the digital communication sector by 2022 besides generating 40 lakh jobs,” he said.