120 Cr Internet Users in India by 2026: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

New Delhi: India would have 120 crore internet users by 2026, said Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Wednesday. India’s robust and clean telecom sector is growing and aiding India’s rise towards becoming a USD 5 trillion dollar economy by 2026, he added.

Speaking to the media as part of the ruling BJP’s election campaign on ‘UPA’s lost decade versus India’s Techade’, he said, instead of scams and crony capitalism, new terms were invented such as first-come-first-served instead of tenders. Currently telecom accounts for 11 per cent of the GDP which is estimated to rise to 26 per cent by 2026.

Chandrasekhar said that under UPA 85 per cent of mobile devices and 100 per cent of equipment was imported, whereas “today we are exporting mobiles”.

He said that today consumers do not have to worry about drop calls unlike in the “last decade”.