Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnav
News9 World Summit Germany Edition: Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnav spoke about the changing technology scenario in India at the News9 Global Summit of the country’s largest news network, TV9. In this episode he mentioned the use of technology in the recent Lok Sabha elections held in the country. He described the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in India as the largest election in the history of the entire human civilization and said that with the help of technology its result was declared in just 5 hours.
This time the ‘News9 Global Summit 2024’ has been organized in Germany. More than 50 speakers will participate. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will also speak at this summit tomorrow. His speech will be at 9 p.m., India time.
Elections were held with 96.8 million voters and 10 lakh polling booths.
Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnav said that 96.8 million voters participated in the Lok Sabha elections held in India in 2024. Around 750 candidates of political parties participated in the elections and voting was held in more of 10 lakh polling booths. However, when the results of these elections were known on June 4, they were published in just five hours.
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Democratic elections have never been held on such a large scale anywhere in the world. This is also the largest election ever made in the history of human civilization. Despite this, with the help of technology, India achieved such a great result in just 5 hours.
Ashwini Vaishnav’s gesture was in this direction.
The technology that Ashwini Vaishnav was talking about in the elections was referring to the ‘Electronic Voting Machine’ (EVM) used in elections in India. Also, live updates of election results on the Election Commission website, seat-wise candidate data and their live updates, election related updates from vote percentage to party trends , show India’s technological advancement.
India chose the path of investment instead of spending
In his speech, the Union Minister also mentioned the economic crisis that the world is facing during the pandemic like Covid. He said that at that time when many large countries in the world focused on increasing consumption, that is, spending to save the economy. While India chose the path of investment in this period. This strengthened the Indian economy.
The Indian government has invested not only in infrastructure but also in digital public infrastructure. Because of India’s focus on investment, today the central government’s debt burden is less than 60 percent of GDP.
