National Security planners and a group of secretary-level officials attended a meeting. In this meeting, the discussion is based on the presentation organized by security agencies that highlight the two sections - Telecom and Higher Education.

It is believed by Power and Telecom companies that there is a need to get in contact with the Chinese Government to manage other critical departments like higher education.

Security officials claimed that the universities and colleges made a link with Chinese institutes through Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs). To quote an example - the Chinese government helped financially Confucius Institutes to promote Han Chinese language and culture.

In the Telecom Department, security agencies pointed to the telecom section's instructions to Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, BSNL to not include Chinese appliances. Nevertheless, the private phone companies usually give preference to Chinese equipment as they are not expensive