View: When it comes to digitisation, govt should first put its own house in order

The pandemic and the lockdown that followed have revealed the potentialities and pitfalls of digitisation. There is much the government can do, to close the gaps in the digital ecosystem that have been shown up and, in the process, stimulate economic growth.At the outset, it must be clear that India needs strong laws to protect data privacy and to secure the citizen against unauthorised intrusion by the State into personal data. The data