India will play a pioneering role in 6G technology, Union Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said at an event in the national capital on Thursday, underscoring the country’s rapid rise as a global digital power.
“India has followed the world on 4G, walked with the world on 5G, but I guarantee you, we will lead the world on 6G,” Scindia said, while speaking at the launch of the book ‘Digital Contracts: Thirty Years of the Internet in India’, by Subimal Bhattacharjee.
The Union Minister also said that India’s digital transformation over the past three decades has been “great in breadth and colossal in depth”, calling it one of the most significant transformations in the country’s modern history.
“From telegraph poles to 5G towers, from handwritten notes to QR codes and UPI; this is transformation,” he added.
Speaking about the future of technology, Scindia emphasized that artificial intelligence and digital public infrastructure will define the next chapter of growth. Describing communication as “the pulse of our lives”, he added that artificial intelligence could contribute about $957 billion to India’s GDP by 2030.
Scindia described the book as “not only a summary and history of Digital India, but also a policy compass that helps us navigate emerging technology while responsibly managing legacy systems.”
