By 2017-end, our digital commerce will become a $1-trn economy: IT Minister

Interview with Ravi Shankar Prasad

From revisiting the Information Technology Act to reinforcing the country's cyber security, law and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has been at the centre of the surge in digital commerce after demonetisation of high currency notes on November 8. Edited excerpts of a conversation with Karan Choudhury on this and what's ahead.

What policies are you formulating around e-payments and how would they shape up this year? 
 

On this, transparency is built in the system. I foresee India to become a big base of the digital payments eco-system  in the world. I have already told the secretary, IT, to revisit