India has been ranked 69th in a World Economic Forum (WEF) report on the success of countries' overall efforts to use information communication technologies (ICT) to improve businesses, government functioning and impact on society, the government said today.

"India is placed at an overall rank of 69. This is an aggregate of five indices namely readiness, environment, usage and impact," Minister of Communications and IT Sachin Pilot today said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha.

The sub-indices which had major impact on India's overall ranking are: Political and Regulatory index (71st rank); Business and Innovation index (91); Individual usage (117); Skills (100); and Infrastructure and Digital content (100), he added.

"These indices have over-shadowed India's performance in other sub-indices namely rank 1 in affordability, 41 in economic impact, 46 in government usage, 47 in business usage and 65 in social impact," he said.

Pilot said compared to India, China ranked 51st in the overall report.

China's performance in these sub-indices was: Political and Regulatory index (46th rank); Business and Innovation index (105); Individual usage (82); Skills (57); and Infrastructure and Digital content (87), he added.

"While China ranks better on almost all sub-indices, its very high score on Impact index (economic impact rank 7 and social impact rank 2) is the primary reason for its higher ranking," Pilot said.

The Minister said the government is taking steps like setting up the National Fibre Optics Network, running national e-governance plans among others to contribute towards improvement in India's rank.