The Centre has said that it has held a meeting with mobile manufacturers to discuss the compatibility of the home-grown global positioning system—NavIC—in smartphones, but no timeline was fixed for its implementation.
This clarification by the government came on September 26 after media reports suggested India was looking to mandate its indigenous navigation system "within months". The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) said the meeting was "consultative".
"A media report has claimed citing a meeting that mobile cos were asked to make smartphones compatible with NavIC within months. This is to clarify: (1) No timeline has been fixed. (2) The cited meeting was consultative; and (3) the issue is under discussion with all stakeholders," the Ministry of Electronics and IT said in a tweet late on Monday night.
