GS Paper III

News Excerpt:

Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has unveiled the 'Sangam: Digital Twin' initiative, an unparalleled venture inviting Expressions of Interest (EOI) from industry pioneers, startups, MSMEs, academia, innovators, and forward-thinkers. 

What is the Digital Twin Initiative?

• Digital Twin technology offers a solution by creating virtual replicas of physical assets, allowing for real-time monitoring, simulation, and analysis for experimental iterations and feedback loops to adapt to the changes to achieve the best outcomes.
• Digital Twin is a Proof of Concept (PoC) distributed in two stages to be conducted in one of the major cities of India.
• The first stage is Exploratory for clarity of horizon and creative Exploration to unleash potential.  
• The second stage is for practical demonstration of specific use cases generating a future blueprint that may serve as a roadmap to scale and replicate successful strategies in future infrastructure projects through collaboration.
• The initiative comes in the backdrop of the past decade's breakthroughs in communication, and computation in the era of techade striving for the vision 2047. 
• India has witnessed advancements in computational technologies, platforms, services, and high-speed connectivity.

Importance of the Initiative:

• Sangam brings all stakeholders on one platform aiming to transform innovative ideas into tangible solutions, bridging the gap between conceptualization and realization, ultimately paving the way for groundbreaking infrastructure advancements. 
• Sangam promotes a holistic approach to innovation, urging stakeholders to transcend traditional boundaries and harness unified data and collective intelligence.
• Sangam aims to demonstrate the practical implementation of innovative infrastructure planning solutions, to develop a model framework for facilitating faster and more effective collaboration, and to provide a future blueprint that may serve as a roadmap to scale and replicate successful strategies in future infrastructure projects.

Conclusion:

The 'Sangam: Digital Twin' initiative introduces a transformative approach to infrastructure development, leveraging Digital Twin technology to bridge the gap between vision and reality. By fostering collaboration and innovation, Sangam aims to pioneer new standards in infrastructure planning and implementation, setting the stage for a technologically advanced and interconnected future in our country.