India's road to becoming a $1-trn digital economy is full of roadblocks

The country needs to make the right policies to support new-age technologies

Even as the Electronics and IT Ministry has set an ambitious target of making India a $1-trillion digital economy in the coming five to seven years, it is not going to be a cakewalk, especially as a profitable business model is yet to be developed for new-age technologies and emerging digital ecosystems.

According to experts, achieving the $1-trillion digital economy tag is not a certainty and the government needs to make the right policies and further execute them properly if it wants to move towards that goal. Without any such commitment and faster execution, India could only achieve an economic