Bharath Digital Infrastructure Association (BDIA) Launches Bharat Digital Samvad

Key facts

• The Bharath Digital Infrastructure Association (BDIA) announced Bharat Digital Samvad, which is India's first dedicated national forum on digital sovereignty and infrastructure policy.
• The summit is scheduled for 20 May 2026 at the Shangri-La, New Delhi, and will mark the formal public launch of BDIA as a not-for-profit industry body.
• BDIA focuses on strengthening domestic capabilities in cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), compute infrastructure, and data systems under the principle of Data Swaraj.
• India's digital economy is projected to reach $1 trillion by 2030.
• The forum aims to provide a policy brief for the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), and propose a Digital Industrial Policy Framework.