New Delhi, Feb. 27 -- India will play the leading role in 6G technology, Union communications minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said at an event in the national capital on Thursday, underlining the country's rapid rise as a global digital powerhouse.

"India followed the world on 4G, walked with the world on 5G, but I guarantee you this, we will lead the world on 6G," Scindia said, while speaking at the launch of the book, 'The Digital Decades: Thirty Years of the Internet in India', authored by Subimal Bhattacharjee.

The Union minister further said that India's digital transformation over the past three decades has been "great in its width and tremendous in its depth," calling it one of the most consequential shifts in the country's modern ...