Department of Electronics and Information

Technology (DeitY)

14.05.2012

• Context of the National Policy on IT

• IT Sector in India – Current Scenario

• Vision of the National Policy on IT

• Strategies

Outline of Presentation

Department of Electronics & Information Technology 2

• IT/ITES Sector at Crossroads

• e-Governance at a take-off point

• Need to enhance usage of IT domestically

• To address concerns on Cyber-security

Context of the Policy

Department of Electronics & Information Technology 3

IT Sector in India – Current Scenario

Source: World Bank, NASSCOM

•Total revenue: •~US$ 101bn

•IT Sector Share in • GDP : 7.5% • Exports : 25%

•CAGR over last 5 years •Exports : 17% •Domestic : 10%

•Total employment •Direct : 2.8 mil •Indirect: 8.9 mil

IT-BPO Sector

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Vision of the National IT Policy

“To strengthen and enhance India’s position as the Global IT-ITES hub and to use IT as an engine for rapid, inclusive and sustainable growth in the national economy”

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Globally Competitive IT Industry

Create ecosystem for a globally competitive IT/ITES Industry

• Facilitate entrepreneurs through a stable tax regime

• Fiscal policies to attract investment in Tier II & Tier III cities

• Develop ecosystem to support SMEs and Start-ups

Focus on Human Resource Development

• Establish Centres of Excellence in institutes of higher learning

• to promote high-end research in specialized ICT areas

• Infrastructure creation for producing 10 million IT professionals

• Make at least one individual in every household e-literate

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IT in mainstream of Indian Economy

Enhance productivity & competitiveness in key sectors

• Promote use of IT in key economic sectors – Health, Education,

Agriculture, Infrastructure, financial inclusion, etc.

• Develop indigenous IT solutions in strategic sectors

Promoting Innovation and R&D in IT Sector

• Build R&D ecosystem & promote collaboration

• Incentivize innovation

• Promote ICT based Green technologies

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ICT for Services & Development

Enable Service Delivery through e-Governance

• Mandate providing all Public Services through e-mode (EDS Bill)

• Emphasis on outcomes – e-Services & e-Transactions

• Create frameworks & shareable infrastructure for Rapid Replication of

successes

• Mandate e-procurement across all departments

• Framework for placing data in public domain, in open formats

Ecosystem for Internet and Mobile Driven Service Industry

• Integrate web & mobile based delivery into a common platform

• Integrate Aadhaar with e-Governance program

• for better targeting of development schemes

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Secure & ‘Indian’ Cyberspace

Security of Cyber Space

• Indigenous development of framework & technologies

• Establishment of an Information Security Assurance Framework

• Compliance with global cyber-security best practices & standards

Development of Language Technologies

• Make India a global hub for language technologies

• Create a localization framework

GIS based IT Services

• Facilitate location based planning, information and delivery

• Enable availability of spatial data in public domain

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Conclusion

Strategies in the IT Policy designed to

Strengthen and enhance India’s position as the Global IT-ITES hub

Use IT as an engine for rapid, inclusive and sustainable growth in the national economy

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Thank You

Department of Electronics & Information Technology www.mit.gov.in

STPI-HQ

New Delhi Noida

Kolkata

Srinagar

Mohali Shimla

Dehradun

Aurangabad Nasik

Rourkela

Kanpur Lucknow

Indore

Jaipur

Bhilai

Ranchi

Allahabad

Durgapur

Gangtok

Jammu

Siliguri Guwahati

Imphal

Hyderabad

Bangalore

Thiruvananthapuram

Chennai

Tirupati

Pondicherry Trichy

Tirunelveli

Manipal Mysore

Vizag

Hubli Vijayawada

Coimbatore

Madurai

Navi Mumbai Pune

Warangal

Nagpur

Kolhapur

Bhubaneswar

Kakinada

MAP NOT TO SCALE

Kharagpur

Jodhpur

Gandhinagar

Mangalore

Haldia

Shillong Patna

Behrampur

STPI-HQ

STPI Directorates

STPI Sub-Centres

STPI Centers Total 52 centers, out of

which 45 in Tier-II and Tier-

III cities

• Section 10A provided a ten-year tax holiday to software companies registered as an EOU

– applicable also to profits derived from on- site development of computer software outside India.

• These benefits ceased from April 1, 2011

• Imminent need to create conducive environment through financial incentives

Withdrawal of Section 10A of Income Tax Act

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Backbone with 21 PoPs completed

This provides the required redundancy and availability of NKN CORE.

Gateways at Mumbai & Chennai apart from Delhi Hyderabad

As on 30th April, 2012, Around 739 institutions of higher learning and advanced research have been connected to NKN and 52 virtual classrooms have been set up.

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Integrated (7)

India Portal

NSDG

CSC

e-Courts

EDI

e-Biz

e-Procurement

State (14)

Land Records /NLRMP

Transport

Commercial Taxes

e-District

Treasuries

Municipalities

Police – CCTNS

Agriculture

Gram Panchayats

Employment Exchange

Health

Education

PDS

Central (10)

Banking

Insurance

Income Tax

Central Excise

MCA 21

Pensions

Passport

e-Office (Pilot)

National ID / UID

Immigration and Visa

Posts

Gone Live Under Implementation Design & Development Industry New MMP

Mission Mode Projects (MMPs)

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CSCs across States

Jharkhand

17

National Data Centre Delhi

18

Domestic Market in IT Sector IT-BPO Domestic revenues* (Rs. billion)

Source: NASSCOM

* Excluding Hardware

•Maturing domestic market – key thrust area for the industry – growth faster than exports

•IT services growth - 17.8 %, driven by localized strategies by service providers

•Domestic BPO growth - 16.9 % driven by demand from new verticals and technology platforms

•Software products growth - 13.3 %, new wave of start-ups driving growth

•Government spending on e-gov projects •IT seen as a critical enabler for inclusive growth and transformation

786

918

16.7%

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Core Infrastructure under NeGP

7 15

25 30

35

0

10

20

30

40

2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13*

12 16

28 33

0

10

20

30

40

2010-11 2011-12 2012-13* 2013-14*

10,350

43,464

80,669

95,710 98,319

4,000

27,200

57,482

69,574 73,225

0

20,000

40,000

60,000

80,000

1,00,000

1,20,000

June 2008 June 2009 June 2010 June 2011 Feb 2012

No. of CSCs Rolled Out Connectivity

State Wide Area Network State Data Center

Common Service Centers

1

4

16

0

5

10

15

20

2010-11 2011-12 2012-13*

SSDG and State Portal

* Proposed