New Delhi, May 21 -- India is now progressing alongside leading nations in emerging technologies and no longer waits for breakthroughs to happen abroad before embracing innovation, Union Minister of State Jitendra Singh said on Thursday while calling for stronger public-private collaboration in strategic sectors.

"We are now almost at the same level of our progression or progress as any other nation. It's no longer that we wait for experiments to happen, success stories to happen elsewhere and then pick up the news as it was in IT or Internet. Today, we are one of the few nations who have done that," Singh said while addressing a session on future-proofing India's data centres and resilient supply chains at the Annual Leadership Summit o...