New Delhi, March 20 -- Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Thursday said that the focus of the government is to develop India into a product nation.

Addressing an award ceremony of the Indian Web Browser Development Challenge in New Delhi, the Union Minister said, "The first point is we as a country have been a great service nation; now we must become a product nation."

"We must now also become a product nation. So whatever you are seeing here today is basically some multi-step in that journey. That journey involved software products as well as hardware products, both categories and within hardware, analog products, and digital products. That's the thought process with which we are moving," he added.

He said that the old mindset that th...