Summary
The national cloud initiative, Megh Raj, upgraded to Megh Raj 2.0, now serves more than 2,300 government departments with services such as DigiLocker and the National Scholarship Portal.
Thirty cloud service providers, including Indian firms like Jio Platforms and international companies such as Google Cloud, are part of the ecosystem, while data centre capacity is projected to grow from 1.57 gigawatts to nearly 8 gigawatts by 2030.
The government is investing billions of U.S. dollars in data centre projects and launching training programmes that have enrolled millions of learners in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity.