Mumbai – Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday pitched for using technology for public good, while expressing her disappointment at “weaponising” the advancements at the global level.

The finance minister asserted India is a global fintech leader, which has set benchmarks in innovation, scale and inclusion.

“…the simple motive is that it (technology) should be for the public good. And at no point of time it gets weaponised,” she said, while speaking at the annual Global Fintech Fest here.

“It is important to constantly remind ourselves that technology cannot be in that sense truly mastered, but having obtained certain propriety, rights over some part of it, we should refrain from weaponising it,” she added.

Sitharaman said we have “constantly” seen instances of inward l

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