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National Digital Communication Policy, 2018

The Article is written by Shreya Pandey from Banasthali University, Jaipur. The Article analyzes the National Digital communication Policy as to how far it is effective and applicable in the current and future situations.

Introduction

National Digital Communication Policy-2018 (NDCP-2018) was approved by the Union Cabinet by replacing the existing NCP-2012 to meet the current needs to make India digitally upgraded. As in the present world, many technological advancements in the Telecom sector have been done by introducing 5G, IoT, M2M, etc, it has become necessary for India to upgrade itself as well to enable customer focussed and application-driven policy.

This policy has made certain goals that are aimed to be accomplished until 2022. Its vision is to cater to the needs of the citizens and corporations to communicate and transmit and get information in a much easier way. It plans to establish a universal, secure, accessible, and cost-effective digital communication framework to support India to go head to head with the leading countries who have achieved the best results in this field so far.

There have been many significant changes in the NDCP and Draft Policy (DP) like in draft policy there was no reference of IP-PSTN while the NDCP recognizes the need for VoIP. The DP makes no plan to liberalize the requirements for import licensing while the NDCP recommends simplifying the requirements for import licensing. The DP endorses the application of light touch licensing regime for establishing cloud-based systems while NDCP aims to establish fibre networks for constructing data centre infrastructure in India. The DP has recommended a regulatory framework for service providers while the NDCP didn’t mention any such suggestion or plan on it.

Objective

The main objectives of this policy are to make the Indian digital communication framework better and provide easy and consistent availability to all the citizens. The targets which are set by this policy which are aimed to be fulfilled by 2022 are:

To provide broadband to all the citizens.

To create almost four million jobs in the digital communication field.

To enhance the contribution of the sector from 6% of India’s GDP to 8%GDP.

In the ICT development Index, to come in the top 50 nations from 134 in 2017.

To contribute better in Global value chains.

To ascertain the sovereignty of the digital communication sector.

In the Preamble of the NDCP, there are further few objectives mentioned. They are:

To make such policies and frameworks which can enhance dynamic competition in the digital communication sector.

To provide Indian consumers with an ample range of services at competing prices.

To boost and ensure fair competition across the digital communication sector.

To improve the existing regulations to attract investments, ensure fair competition, and fulfill Indian consumer needs.

To make such policies to make India ready for the future

To redesign the Telecom Commission to establish Digital Communication Commission.

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Mission and strategies

The policy visualizes three missions to be accomplished through this policy. They are:

Connect India: Establishing a powerful and effective digital communication framework for providing broadband connectivity to all the citizens for providing better service quality and developing the socio-economic status of the country.

The goals under these missions can be enlisted as:

To provide comprehensive broadband connection to all individuals of the country at 50Mbps.

To give accessibility to all Gram Panchayats 1Gbps till 2020 and 10Gbps till 2022.

To provide all advancing institutions 100Mbps speed on demand.

To provide 50% of households with fixed access to a broadband connection.

To assure that those areas which were uncovered have connectivity.

The strategies made under the mission are:

Establishment of National Broadband Mission to ensure that:

there is the availability of universal broadband access to all the citizens. BharatNet, GramNet, NagarNet, JanWifi were few broadband initiatives made by the government which was funded by USOF.

Establishing a National Digital Grid by creating a National Fibre Authority to provide development of availability to Next Generation Networks.

Implementation of Fibre First Initiative to provide access to fibre to homes, companies, associations, and other development infrastructures.

Establishing Mobile Tower Infrastructure by giving incentives to construct telecom towers, promoting stationing of solar and green energy for towers.

Advancement of international connectivity and providing facilities for establishing International Cable Landing Stations by reducing its cost.

Admitting that Spectrum is a way to achieve the countries’ socio-economic aims by:

Making proper availability of spectrum in the future.

Establishing transparent and fair policies for allocation and distribution of spectrum.

Utilizing and managing spectrum effectively.

Strengthen Satellite Communication technologies in the country by:

Reviewing the regulatory regime for satellite communication machinery.

Optimizing Satellite Communication technologies in India.

Ensuring that uncovered and areas that are excluded from digital services are included and given the necessary service by channelizing and reviewing the scope and modalities of USOF.

Assuring that the customers are satisfied, quality of services are maintained and effective grievances redressal mechanisms are provided.

Propel India: To enable the next generation of machinery by way of investment, modernization, and manufacturing.

The goals that are to be achieved until 2022 are:

Attracting finances in the Digital Communication Sector of 100 Billion.

Expanding the country’s contribution to Global Value Chains.

Creating internationally recognizable IPRs in India.

The strategies that are made can be listed as:

Increasing investments in the digital communication sector by recognizing this sector as an essential need by:

Encourage ease in doing business.

Reconstructing the licensing and regulatory sectors.

Reduce, simplify, and facilitate obligations that are to be followed.

Ensure reasonableness and proportionality in the regulations.

Ensuring that to meet the modern technologies harmonized approach would be followed by:

Adopting modern technologies by simplifying licensing regulations

Promoting the use of Open APIs for modern infrastructures.

Secure India: Making sure that digital communications are safeguarded and sovereignty is maintained.

The goals that are to be achieved until 2022 are:

To ensure the privacy of data protection and facilitating India’s contribution in the global digital economy.

To establish an effective security infrastructure.

To check security issues and establish necessary security standards.

The strategies that are made can be listed as:

To create a strong and dynamic Data Protection Infrastructure by:

Making amendments in the existing laws and regulations.

Keeping a regular check on the data protection regime.

To give the customers a wide range of choice and autonomy to the companies.

Ensuring that digital communications are secured by:

Keeping a regular check on the issues arising through digital communications.

Maintaining security standards meeting the globally set standards.

Building better security testing processes.

Preparing for relief through a plan for restoring and reconstructing itself by establishing a Unified Emergency Response Mechanism and developing disaster relief plans for India.

Advantages

Since this policy has come by replacing the old NDCP-2012, it has come up with new ideas to flourish the country by encouraging the use of modern digital communications and removing the drawbacks of the old policy.

This policy is made in a view of future perspectives and sharing a globally recognized and established platform for digital communication. Its advantages are embodied in its features and objectives which replace the communication sector with the digital communication sector.

The features of this policy are witnesses of the merits that are striving to make India a platform for the invitation of investments, enterprises, and a better economic country. It not only is focussed on the industrial sector it also covers the household areas by providing ample facilities to the houses.

Few advantages of the policy can be enumerated as:

It aims to provide a broadband connection at 50Mbps to every citizen which would help them to be upgraded with all the technical advancements and can be a source of income for many who work from home.

Ensuring that all areas which were left uncovered are now given connectivity through which the areas which lacked behind can develop themselves.

The policies made would attract huge investments from worldwide which will enhance the socio-economic status of the country.

This policy plans to build security infrastructures, emergency relief processes, and other security testing processes that would provide individuals with safe and secure connectivity for digital communication.

It supports fair competition where there is no monopoly.

The customers will have the autonomy to choose whichever network they feel is better.

It brings a revolution in the communication field by replacing communication sectors with digital communication sectors.

It addresses some issues like expanding the scope of IPRs, the Ferberisation of towers, the establishment of towers, initiatives of Digital India, approach towards long-lasting telecommunications, and other reformative initiatives.

It suggests removing the lack of regulation that became hurdles in the way of investments, expansions of the enterprises.

It proposes certain necessary changes that are necessary to put into reality to facilitate India to become a digital communication system of next-generation like: amendments in existing laws, spectrum, Net Neutrality, IP-PSTN interconnectivity, Fibre First, satellite communication, review of the license fee, etc.

It suggests providing a safe and secure digital community for the protection of digital sovereignty of the country.

Disadvantages

The policy aims to make India ready for the future but the policy depends upon the machinery part from which those policies could be addressed and can be put in reality. This policy aims to achieve its goals and missions by 2022 but as of now, it is almost impossible to bring such immense change. The pandemic which came in the world has almost ruined the economic status of the most powerful countries and even India is now dealing with it due to which the aims that were set to be fulfilled till 2020 have become impossible. The move made by making this policy is a great initiative although its success completely depended on the way of implementation and execution.

The disadvantages are although not much but it can be listed as under:

The success of this policy completely depended on the way of execution and implementation of the policy.

There is no review mechanism established to keep a check on the execution of the policy.

The aims that were aimed to be fulfilled until 2020 are yet to be fulfilled.

It failed to observe the necessity to relook the old regulatory frameworks.

The implementation of the policy is yet to be done for the last year.

The NDCP aims at next-generation technologies but lacks modern technologies such as Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV).

Conclusion

NDCP is a great achievement for India as it thrives India to become globally advanced. It suggests making amendments in the old laws and bringing technological advancement in India which are already present in the world to make India ready for the future. Its main convergence is to make the telecom sector a digital communication sector due to which the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is impending to be renamed as Digital Communication Regulatory Authority of India (DCRAI).

NDCP aims to make India a Digital First world and thrives in implementing technologies such as 5G, M2M, etc. There has been a good start to the implementation of the suggestions of the NDCP by DoT as few of the suggestions of the NDCP are put into implementation like removal of import licensing requirement for low power licensing power equipment and issuing National Frequency Allocation Plan-2018.

References

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/what-is-new-telecom-policy-2018-digital-connectivity-communications-5375761/

https://vikaspedia.in/e-governance/digital-india/national-digital-communications-policy-2018

https://www.mondaq.com/india/Media-Telecoms-IT-Entertainment/781670/A-Thrust-For-Digital-Connected-India-The-National-Digital-Communications-Policy-2018

https://dot.gov.in/sites/default/files/EnglishPolicy-NDCP.pdf

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In Mumbai, Shiv Sena boss Uddhav Thackeray goes on a hotel run to meet MLAs - india news

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray left his home, Matoshree, on Sunday afternoon to drop in on the legislators of his own party as well as those of the NCP and Congress tucked away in different hotels in Mumbai.Senior leaders have said the reason behind Uddhav Thackeray’s meetings with these members of legislative assembly (MLAs) was to display a united front.Uddhav Thackeray’s first stop was the Renaissance Mumbai Convention Centre Hotel in Powai, where MLAs of the Nationalist Congress Party have been kept. Sena leaders Subhash Desai and Sanjay Raut accompanied their boss. As did Aaditya Thackeray, Uddhav’s son and the newly-elected MLA from Worli.Eknath Shinde was already at the five-star hotel.Thackeray is later expected to go to another posh JW Marriott Hotel in Juhu to interact with Congress MLAs. He could also go to The Lalit in Andheri East to meet his own party’s MLAs.Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party, Shiv Sena and the Congress have all moved their legislators to different luxury hotels in Mumbai, amid the high political drama in Maharashtra and threat of poaching of their MLAs.In a stunning political move, the BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday took an oath as the chief minister of Maharashtra, where the political scene has been in flux since the state poll results were announced on October 24. The NCP had won 54 seats in the October 21 assembly election, Sena 56 and the Congress at 44 against the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) 105 seats. Independents and smaller parties won 29 seats.Numbers are crucial at this point of time after the three-party alliance approached the Supreme Court challenging Maharashtra Governor BS Koshyari’s decision to invite Devendra Fadnavis to form the state government in the early hours of Saturday. Fadnavis staked the claim to power late on Friday with the support of Sharad Pawar’s nephew Ajit Pawar.Ajit Pawar had joined hands with the BJP, saying that all the 54 MLAs of the NCP are with him. His uncle has since said Ajit’s decision to ally with the BJP is his personal step and NCP has nothing to do with him.The top court has now ordered the Centre to produce Maharashtra governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari’s letter to Devendra Fadnavis to form a government in the state at 10:30am on Monday.A three-judge bench of the court also asked the central government to produce the letters of support by legislators submitted by Fadvavis to the governor.The Sena, NCP and Congress and the BJP have said they are confident of proving their numbers in a floor test.The Congress has said its legislators were earlier supposed to leave for Jaipur but later decided to stay in Mumbai in view of the fast-paced political developments in the state capital.Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar were sworn in by Governor Koshyari at a hush-hush ceremony at Raj Bhavan, a decision slammed by the three parties.The BJP and the Sena, which fought the last month’s assembly polls in an alliance, secured a comfortable majority. The Sena, however, severed its three-decade-long association with the BJP after a clash over the issue of the chief minister’s post.The BJP’s step on Saturday has been variously criticised as the murder of democracy, the day as “Black Saturday” and Ajit Pawar’s decision to jump ship as “backstabbing”. Source link Read the full article

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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and the Narendra Modi government at the Centre, stunned their political adversaries on Saturday morning by installing a Devendra Fadnavis-led government in Maharashtra, supported by the Nationalist Congress Party’s (NCP) Ajit Pawar.

While it is advantage BJP, given that the Assembly speaker will be from the party with the power to take decisions on the applicability of the anti-defection law, the political impasse is set to continue in the state, at least till the floor test in the Assembly, slated for November 30.

The Sena-NCP-Congress combine on Saturday night filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking quashing of the Maharashtra governor’s decision and demanded an immediate floor test to avoid “further horse trading”. Hearing of the plea is scheduled to commence at 11:30 am on Sunday, said Sunil Fernandes, lawyer of the three parties.

Confusion also persisted over how many of the party’s legislators supported Ajit.

At least seven of the nearly dozen who attended the oath-taking ceremony at the Mumbai Raj Bhavan at 7.30 am, seemingly returned by evening to the faction that his uncle and party chief Sharad Pawar leads.

The NCP has 54 MLAs, including Ajit. Sharad Pawar exuded confidence that his MLAs would stick by him, and Fadnavis’ government would fail the floor test.

ALSO READ: Drama shifts to Assembly as Maharashtra holds its breath for floor test

Pawar added that his MLAs would rather face disqualification than support the Fadnavis-led government.

MLAs of NCP’s ally Congress may be flown to Jaipur on Sunday to ward off any poaching bid, a party leader said on Saturday night.

chartSources in the BJP, hinting that the Speaker of the Assembly would be from the party, were confident of passing the floor test. They said Ajit was the NCP legislature party chief and it was unlikely that the MLAs would risk disqualification by defying the party whip.

They also said all the MLAs did not need to attend the ceremony in person, and it sufficed that Ajit submitted the letter of support signed by all the MLAs. Pawar senior said the letter of support was for the proposed Sena-led coalition government, which his nephew had since he heads the legislature party.

Sharad Pawar said he was not aware if his nephew decided to support the BJP out of the fear of the Enforcement Directorate. Ajit is named in the multi-crore Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank scam. He rejected speculation that Ajit “betrayed” him because of the power struggle with Sharad Pawar’s daughter Supriya Sule. Sharad Pawar said his daughter was not interested in state politics.

Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi chief Prakash Ambedkar, without mentioning Pawar senior by name but alluding to his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier this week in the national capital, alleged the NCP chief not just knew of his nephew’s plans, but is a party to it.

“Some leaders of the NCP met with the PM and Amit Shah. The purpose (of the meeting) was stated to be to discuss issues concerning rain-hit farmers. Two days ago, Maharashtra governor announced compensation to farmers. The perception that something was fishy started developing from the point (Pawar-Modi) meet),” Ambedkar said.

Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala termed it a “black chapter” in India’s history, accusing the BJP of acting as a “contract killer” of democracy and the governor proving to be BJP chief Amit Shah’s “hitman”. However, there were fears in the party that some of its MLAs might also defect.

ALSO READ: Fox in the henhouse: How Ajit Pawar cut the ground under NCP's feet

chartsThe BJP defended the government formation as the need of the time and vindication of the people’s mandate. The PM congratulated Fadnavis and Ajit in a tweet. To questions whether the cabinet approved revocation of the President’s rule, home ministry officials said the government invoked special provisions of the Constitution. President Ram Nath Kovind signed the proclamation for revocation of the central rule and a gazette notification to this effect was issued at 5.47 am.

A senior home ministry official said the approval was given by the central government by invoking a special provision of The Government of India (Transaction of Business) Rules which gives the prime minister special powers. The Rule 12 says: "Departure from Rules.- The Prime Minister may, in any case or classes of cases, permit or condone a departure from these rules, to the extent he deems necessary". The prime minister gave this approval, which acts as post-facto approval of the Union Cabinet, the official said.

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Maharashtra Congress MLAs Leave for Mumbai from Jaipur Hotel

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The MLAs were holed up at the luxury resort, located close to the Delhi-Jaipur national highway, as the Congress remained busy holding discussions with the NCP and the Shiv Sena with regard to the government formation in Maharashtra, which was placed under President’s rule on Tuesday. PTI

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Congress MLA’s at Buena Vista resort in Jaipur.

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NCP councillors switch to BJP as tussle for urban local bodies begins in Rajasthan

Jaipur: A tight tussle is on to form boards in 45 of the 90 urban local bodies in Rajasthan where no one has a clear majority with the Congress and BJP placing elected candidates under ‘political’ quarantine to avoid poaching and cross-voting. In Newai municipal council in Tonk district, the constituency of former deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot, 17 councillors who won the elections on a…

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Farmers to intensify protest; oppn petitions President: Top developments

NEW DELHI: The farmers agitating against the three new agriculture laws on Wednesday rejected the government’s offer of a “written assurance” that the existing minimum support price (MSP) for procurement of crops would continue. They have said that the agitation would be intensified and have called for a nationwide protest on December 14. Meanwhile, a 5-member delegation of opposition leaders met President Ram Nath Kovind today and sought the repeal of the new farm laws. Here are the 10 key developments of the day: 1. As thousands of farmers continue to protest at various borders of the national capital demanding the repeal of three new farm laws, the government proposed to give a “written assurance” that the existing Minimum Support Price (MSP) regime for procurement will continue. It also proposed to make necessary amendments on at least seven issues, including one to allay fears about the weakening of the mandi system. 2. The farmer leaders rejected the government proposal and announced they would intensify their agitation by blocking the Jaipur-Delhi and the Delhi-Agra expressways by Saturday. They also threatened to escalate the agitation into a nationwide protest on December 14. Addressing a press conference, farmer leader Shiv Kumar Kakka said there was nothing new in the government’s proposal, and that it was “completely rejected” by the ‘Sanyukta Kisan Committee’ in its meeting on Wednesday. Farmer union leaders termed the proposal an “insult” to the farmers of the country. They, however, said if the government sends a fresh proposal of talks, they may consider it. 3. A delegation of opposition leaders met President Ram Nath Kovind and sought the repeal of the three farm laws. The five-member delegation comprised Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury, CPI general secretary D Raja and DMK leader TKS Elangovan. “We met the President and informed him of our view regarding the three farm laws. We have asked for their repeal. We informed the President that it is critical that they are taken back,” Gandhi told reporters after the meeting. 4. The sixth round of talks between the government and farm union leaders, which was scheduled for Wednesday morning, was cancelled. According to the union leaders, a new ‘Delhi chalo’ (march to Delhi)’ call is being given to all farmers in the north India for December 14, while those in the South will be asked to protest at district headquarters. It is not clear when the next round of talks will take place. 5. Agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar met home minister Amit Shah to discuss the next course of action after the farmer leaders rejected the Centre’s draft proposal, sources said. The sources said the agriculture minister is believed to have discussed with the home minister a possible way to end the stalemate after the farm unions rejected the government’s draft proposal. Minister of railways, commerce and industry Piyush Goyal was also present in the meeting. 6. The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), former ally of the BJP-led NDA, asked the Centre to “stop playing games” with innocent farmers and withdraw the three farm laws “immediately and unconditionally”. The SAD, which had pulled out of the NDA after the enactment of the farm laws, also backed the farmers’ rejection of the centre’s proposal on these laws. 7. Punjab BJP chief Ashwani Sharma dubbed the farmers’ decision to reject the centre’s proposal to amend the new farm laws as “unfortunate”. He urged the protesting farmers to review their decision. “It was unfortunate that farmer leaders have rejected the proposed amendments to the three agriculture bills,” Sharma said in a statement. 8. AAP alleged that Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s movement is still “restricted” and the main gate of his residence remains closed by the Delhi Police, which denied the charge. AAP, which had on Tuesday alleged that the Delhi Police put Kejriwal under house arrest after he met farmers protesting against the Centre’s agriculture reform laws at the city’s Singhu border, again claimed that it was being done at the behest of Amit Shah. The Delhi Police had rejected AAP’s charge as “totally baseless”. 9. Haryana Congress president Kumari Selja and Indian National Lok Dal leader Abhay Singh Chautala separately met the protesting farmers at Tikri border and said the entire country stands with them. 10. The farmer leaders have said they would gherao BJP ministers, the party’s district offices and boycott its leaders on December 14. They said all toll plazas across the country will be made toll-free on December 12. (With inputs from agencies)

source https://bbcbreakingnews.com/2020/12/09/farmers-to-intensify-protest-oppn-petitions-president-top-developments/

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