News9 Global Summit Germany Edition: Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnav talked about the changing scenario of technology 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 India’s 2024 Lok Sabha elections as the biggest 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.
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Elections were held with 96.8 crore voters and 10 lakh polling booths.
Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnav said that 96.8 crore voters took part in the Lok Sabha elections held in India in 2024. About 750 political party candidates contested the elections and voting was conducted at more than 10 lakh polling booths. Still, when the results of this election came on June 4, the results came out in just 5 hours.
Democratic elections have never been held on such a large scale anywhere in the world. This is also the biggest election ever in the history of human civilization. Despite this, with the help of technology, India achieved such a big result in just 5 hours.
Ashwini Vaishnav was pointing 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 website of the Election Commission, data of seat wise candidates and their live updates, updates related to election from vote share to party trends show the technological advancement of India.
India chose the path of investment instead of spending
In his address, the Union Minister also mentioned the economic crisis faced by the world during the pandemic like Covid. He said that in that era when many big countries of the world focused on increasing consumption i.e. expenditure to save the economy. India chose the path of investment in this period. This strengthened India’s economy.
The Indian government has invested not only in infrastructure but also in digital public infrastructure. Due to India’s focus on investment, today the debt burden of the central government is less than 60 percent of the GDP.
