{"id":1019765,"date":"2026-07-10T08:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019765"},"modified":"2026-07-10T08:08:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:38:54","slug":"samriddh-gram-wins-at-wsis-prizes-2026-scindia-calls-it-recognition-of-inclusive-digital-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/10\/samriddh-gram-wins-at-wsis-prizes-2026-scindia-calls-it-recognition-of-inclusive-digital-india\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Samriddh Gram&#8217; wins at WSIS Prizes 2026; Scindia calls it recognition of &#8216;inclusive Digital India&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Union Minister for Communications Jyotiraditya Scindia on Thursday expressed his delight after the Department of Telecommunications&#8217; (DoT) &#8216;Samriddh Gram&#8217; integrated phygital services project was declared a global winner at the prestigious WSIS Prizes 2026. <\/p>\n<p>The project won the top honours under the &#8216;Enabling Environment&#8217; category, awarded by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). <\/p>\n<p>Taking to social media, Scindia termed the achievement a &#8220;proud moment&#8221; for the nation and a testament to the Prime Minister&#8217;s vision of a digitally empowered India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Union Minister for Communications Jyotiraditya Scindia on Thursday expressed his delight after the Department of Telecommunications&#8217; (DoT) &#8216;Samriddh Gram&#8217; integrated phygital services project was declared a global winner at the prestigious WSIS Prizes 2026. The project won the top honours under the &#8216;Enabling Environment&#8217; category, awarded by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Taking to social media, Scindia termed the achievement a &#8220;proud moment&#8221; for the nation and a testament to the Prime Minister&#8217;s vision of a digitally empowered India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019780,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019765\/revisions\/1019780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}