"One Of The Most Brilliant...": Wharton Classmate On New IT Minister

Thursday, 8 July 2021Newsdesk

India has named a former bureaucrat who graduated from the country's top engineering school its new Information Technology minister, appointing a new point person in an increasingly fractious relationship with the world's largest technology giants.

New Delhi, 08 July 2021

As per news report of NDTV, Ashwini Vaishnaw, 51, will head the ministries of Electronics & Information Technology, Communications as well as Railways, the government announced late on Tuesday evening. The incoming minister has an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and attended the Indian Institute of Technology, which counts tech leaders like Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai as alumni. A major restructuring of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet saw the exit of Ravi Shankar Prasad, who had been battling U.S. social media giants like Alphabet Inc.'s Google, Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. in one of the world's fastest-growing internet markets. As recently as last week, Mr Prasad had been vociferously defending the government's moves to exert control over user data and online discussions.

Source - NDTV