Letter to BS: Cheap data presents huge opportunity for India's economy

Cheap data could actually make our supply chains much more efficient and our motor vehicle assets more productive are indeed wonderful possibilities

Neelkanth Mishra’s article “Cheap data driving profound changes” (June 6) is absolutely fascinating. It is mind boggling to see how cheap data can facilitate addition of as much as 1.5 per cent to the national GDP growth of our country. Of course, actual results will depend on “human ingenuity and Indian entrepreneurism” but the author’s detailed explanation of the manner it can happen make eminent sense.

We have all known that the cost of data on Indian mobile networks has come down considerably but perhaps no one would have imagined that as a proportion of per capita income, it has “gone