He also referred to the BharatNet rural broadband connectivity network project

India is currently the most "connected" country in the world, with more than 800 million broadband subscribers, Minister of State (MoS) Rajeev Chandrasekhar has said.

Speaking at the closing ceremony of the India Internet Governance Forum 2022 on Sunday, Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology Chandrasekhar said 5G and the largest rural broadband connectivity network project at BharatNet will have 1.2 billion Indian users.

This will constitute the single largest presence of the global internet, he added. The minister was speaking on the theme of "Leveraging Technology for Empowering Bharat."

He said that he anticipated both revised legal frameworks and further technical advancements to remain relevant. "The deep involvement by all stakeholders will be the third leg of this global standard cyber law framework that we hope will catalyze the Indian internet and economy," he pointed out.

The MoS said that India now has a tremendous powerful offering, identity authentication to a very diverse and rich suite of applications, and improved accessibility to the internet to countries in the Global South which have not been able to step up and create the same sort of pace of digitization of the economy is an internetization of their economies.

Additionally, he stated that during India's G20 presidency, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he would be open to India offering that platform to all those nations in the Global South that want to transform their digital economy and their governance model as India.

MoS Chandrasekhar explained, "the multistakeholder architecture of the Indian internet happened after a lot of effort. In the next few years, this multistakeholder engagement must go beyond the intellectual academic discussion to ensure the internet grows and innovation grows while keeping both safe and trusted and accountable for all the billion digital nagriks of India."

The India Internet Government Forum is an initiative associated with the UN Internet Governance Forum (UN-IGF). The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is a multi-stakeholder platform bringing representatives together from various groups, all at par to discuss public policy issues related to the Internet.