Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Google who is currently in India for the first ever Google Big Tent program in Delhi where policymakers and the internet experts gather said that India is lagging with the technology being satisfied with what it has achieved. He said that the Indian Government was resting on laurels talking about the poor internet connectivity in the nation.

Of 1.2 billion people less than one sixth of them have internet access. Only 150 million in India are able to use internet only because the government of India is not making any solid efforts to reach farther, he said.

He said that this lack of reach and lack of high speed internet networks has pulled back India from making the most of the internet.

"It is well behind in the web services model that the rest of the world is adopting," talking to the Indian media. He added, "It is crucial for India to invest and enable fast fibre internet connectivity within the country, between the country and the other countries".

He expressed his view that Indian government is making the same mistake companies do, be complacent with the growth achieved in the software and IT companies. Merely having the growth is not what matters but keeping pace with the growth does. This is what takes a country further.

"My guess would be that having been satisfied with the great success of IT, the Indian government and the leadership has made the same mistake that companies do, they rested on their own laurels," he said.

The telecom revolution has brought down the prices of the phones in the nation but we are yet to achieve the same in terms of high speed internet. The government processes are hampering the fast fiber connections in India, experts say.

(AW- Anil)