PM Modi talks on importance of digital India during address at 51st convocation ceremony of IIT Delhi

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inspired students with his powerful words at the 51st convocation ceremony of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi. PM Modi addressed the students through video conferencing due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

During his speech, he asked the students of IIT Delhi to recognize the needs of the country and to connect with the changes on the ground. PM Modi also drew focus on the importance of the Atmanirbhar Campaign for the students of India.

PM Modi covered several topics in his speech at the 51st convocation of IIT Delhi, such as the importance of Digital India, start-up ventures in India, and the importance of technological advancements in India.

Congratulating more than 2000 IITians on their convocation, PM Modi asked the students to identify with the aspirations of the common people in the context of Atamnirbanar Bharat. He also said Atmanirbhar Campaign is a mission that gives opportunities to youth, technocrats, and tech-enterprise leaders of the country.

He further said that today, a favourable environment has been created for the implementation of the ideas and innovation of the technocrats freely and to scale them and market them easily.

He said that today's India is committed to providing 'ease of doing business' to its youth so that they can bring changes



in the life of crores of their countrymen through their innovation.

PM Modi explained that this has been the thought process behind the major reforms that have been done in almost every sector in the recent past. He listed the sectors where opportunities have been created for innovation and new start-ups for the first time due to the reforms.

Prime Minister told the students during the convocation that the post-Covid world will be very different than what we are used to now, and technology will play a major role in its overall development.

He said that Virtual Reality was never thought of but now Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality have become the Working Reality.

He also said that the present batch of students has a first-mover advantage to learn and adapt to the new norms emerging in the workplace and he urged them to make the most use of this. He said Covid-19 has taught them that globalization is as important as self-reliance.

He also said that technology is playing a big role in Svamitva yojana which was launched recently. Under this, for the first time, residential and land property are being mapped. He said that earlier this work was done manually and thus doubts and apprehensions were also natural. Today, using drone technology, this mapping is being done and the villagers are also fully satisfied with it.