Mauritius IT Minister Avinash lauds India’s C-DOT lab

Mauritius Minister for Information Technology, Communication and Innovation, Dr Avinash Ramtohul, who visited the Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) here, has urged the need for deeper collaboration between the two countries in emergency alerting and telecom innovation, the Ministry of Communications said.

The minister commended the centre’s disaster management and cybersecurity initiatives.



Ramtohul assessed C-DOT’s Early Warning System and Cell Broadcast solution and commented on its implementation nationwide to notify citizens, including fishing communities, of impending natural hazards.

C-DOT’s cybersecurity stack includes a real-time Security Operations Centre, Quantum Key Distribution, Post-Quantum Cryptography, and SAMVAD-a, a secure chat and calling application, the Ministry said.