Rajeev Chandrasekhar  

has always been passionate about technology.  As an MP with

deep knowledge, experience and an extensive background in technology and
entrepreneurship,  Rajeev believes the use of technology plays a crucial role in bringing
to effect a more efficient, transparent and accountable government.

A strong supporter of the Digital India Program launched by the Government in July
2014 Rajeev believes this initiative by the Ministry of Information Technology and
Communication will create a single, comprehensive vision for the country’s
technological future. Rajeev’s approach to Digital India stems from the view that the
program will transform governance by creating a technological platform for
administrative and decision making processes shall enable governments to be more
responsive.

Rajeev is of the firm belief that access to technology will ensure that citizens have
access to information and services on a real time basis. As users of end line services,
socio-economically backward citizens can be saved of the mire of government
bureaucracy and political corruption. They can verify information, access a host of
products and services and increase the efficiency of their daily lives.

To make real the Digital India vision and of taking government and services to a billion
Indians via the internet Rajeev emphasises that TRAI, DoT and DeitY have to be
transformed with the specialised capacity required to deal with technology policy making
and regulation.

Rajeev is a proponent of Net Neutrality and believes a free internet is derived from the
universal democratic value of freedom of speech, and therefore is essential to
democracy in the 21st century. In his ten years in Parliament, he has worked to sensitise
fellow MPs to the need for a free internet with minimal regulation, and supplied inputs to
the law-making process, drawing from his own experience as a business leader in the
communications industry.
For India and its vision of Digital India – “Access to the Internet must be as important as
the phone and should be available to all”, Rajeev holds that the Internet needs simple
regulations that are based on fundamental consumer rights, innovation and connectivity.