India plans to develop an innovative computer operating system in order to improve security technology and lower cyber attacks, a prominent defence scientist has said.
The Defence Research and Development Organisation have teamed up with major Indian software companies as well as academic institutions to create the operating system, in what will be a "national effort".
Software development centres have been set up in Delhi and Bangalore to fill this gap in the Indian technology market.
The country currently uses Western-developed operating systems, which leaves confidential Indian data vulnerable to theft.
In addition to improving security, an Indian-designed operating system could change the way the country works, for example improving benefit administration and employee reward technology.
Dr V K Saraswat, scientific adviser to the defence minister and director general of the DRDO, said that this move was important in order to prevent data being "taken away by adversaries".
He added: "[The] only way to protect it (data) is to have a home-grown system, the complete architecture"