Centre bifurcates new ministry for IT

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi-A new Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has been created by the Centre after bifurcating Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MoC&IT) to exclusively deal with Aadhaar, promotion of internet and other related services. According to the decision, there will be two ministries – Ministry of Communications and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.

Further, the Ministry of Communications will have two departments–Department of Telecommunications and Department of Posts. The Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), which used to be in the erstwhile MoC&IT, will be under the new Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.