India, Feb. 28 -- Former union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar has said that the advancement in artificial intelligence should be measured by its impact on a country's gross domestic product (GDP).

Chandrasekhar was speaking at Mumbai Tech Week 2025 today (February 28).

Reiterating Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision to expand India's digital economy, he said that currently, the digital and innovation sectors contribute about 14% to the country's GDP and the goal is to fuel this contribution to 1/5th (20%) by achieving a trillion-dollar innovation economy by 2027.

Chandrasekhar also said that the largest and most impactful deployment of technology happens in governance. He further pointed to India's Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) ...