India is planning to launch a national Internet forum to help the country ensure it can play a key role in global meetings and deliberations linked to Internet governance. For India's part, officials claim the poor penetration of the Internet in the country until recently, and also worldwide imbalances in economic power, have kept them from having their say. Tamil Nadu State Council For Higher Education Vice-chairman Dr. Anandakrishnan, said inadequate awareness of global developments threatens to leave India far behind in this strategic race. Other participants in the meeting complained of the very limited access to the Internet in India. There were also complaints that the Indian procedure for domain name registration is cumbersome, costly, and time-consuming.
International bandwidth is also still very expensive in India.
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