‘We would like India to become a center of small product cyber security and we must look at how IT can help India become a big center of data analysis', said Mr Prasad.

Union Electronic and IT Minister said BPO industry should move to small towns where overhead costs are less compared to big cities. About 48,000 seats have been planned with distribution across states and UTs based on population percentage.

It excluded metro cities like Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, National Capital Region, Pune and North Eastern states. He further said, about 86 new BPOs operating in 27 states excluding digitally rich areas.  BPO centres have already come up in Patna and Muzaffarpur, while such centres would soon be opened in smaller cities like Ghazipur, Jahanabad and Gaya etc, he said.

‘The government will give grant of Rs. 5 crore to start-ups doing innovation in the field of cyber security and healthcare," said Prasad.

Prasad said today 250 hospitals across the country have been turned into e-hospitals and more than 2 crore of patients are taking benefits of the e-hospitals.

eNAM has linked more than 500 market mandis with 70 lakhs of farmers negotiating their price, Union Electronic and IT Minister said.

The Minister also mentioned the increasing adoption of the Umang (Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance) app, Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM) app that enables secure cashless payments through mobile phones.