Rajneesh AgrawalDirector

MCIT, INDIA

5,000 year old civilization3.28 million sq. kilometers - Area

1.21 billion plus people, 70% rural

Multi-lingual – 22 Official Languages

Multi religiousMulti-ethnic

Federal Structure35 States & Union Territories600,000+ villages

India: Diversity and Development

Multi-party Multi-tiered democracy240,000+ Local Bodies

• 560 million consumers in 20-49 age group expected by 2015

• 5th largest consumer market by 2025• Increased disposable incomes &

changing lifestyles

• Third largest pool of scientific & technical manpower• Large English speaking population• Over 600 universities (17,600 colleges)• 1,500 research institutions and 1600 PhDs annually• Over 500,000 engineering graduates, 5 million

graduates and 0.33 million teachers• Increasing focus on talent development/improving

employability• Sector focused initiatives, Private participation in

training /ITIs

• infrastructure spend to be the biggest thrust in coming years

• Investment in infrastructure in past five years doubled from 4% to 8% of GDP

• US$ 1 trillion investment proposed for 2012-17

Infrastructure initiatives

Large domestic market

Human capital

India StoryThe India Story…….A fastest growing Nations

• 4th largest economy in the world• GDP growth was 8.4% during 2009-10

and 2010-11 despite the recent global downturn

• About 6.9% during the year 2011-12

• 100% FDI permitted in ICT sector• Third most attractive FDI location in the world (AT Kearney FDI Confidence Index 2010)

Right to Information ActTransitioning to International Financial Reporting System (IFRS)Information Technology Act and Essential Services Delivery ActRoadmap for Direct Tax Code (DTC) and Goods and Services Tax (GST)

India Story

Pro investment environmentCost competitiveness

Transparency & Accountability

City Price Levels(including Rent) Net Wage Levels

New York 100 100Tokyo 88.5 86.4Taipei 52.2 40.0

Hong Kong 74.1 43.9Beijing 42.4 14.5Delhi 34 10.3

Mumbai 30.3 7.6

Source : Prices and Earnings Report August 2010, UBS

The India Story.. contd.

Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY)

• Development of e-infrastructure to facilitate and promote: – e-Government: Providing e-infrastructure for delivery of e-services– e-Industry: Promotion of electronics hardware manufacturing and IT-ITeS industry– e-Innovation/R&D: Enabling creation of Innovation /R&D Infrastructure in emerging

areas of ICT&E– e-Learning: Providing support for development of e-Skills and Knowledge network– e-Security: Securing India’s cyber space

Attached Offices of DeitY•Standardisation, Testing and Quality Certification (STQC) Directorate•National Informatics Centre (NIC)

Autonomous Societies of DeitYEducation & Research in Computer Networking(ERNET)Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology (C-MET)National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT)Society for Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering and Research (SAMEER)Software Technology Parks of India (STPI)

First two policies are available at www.mit.gov.in

Last policy is available at www.dot.gov.in

Policies

National Policy on IT -2012

National Policy on Electronics -2012

National Policy on Telecom -2012

Vision of National Policy on IT - 2012

“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”

Key Objectives

– Increase revenues of IT and ITES to 300 Billion USD by 2020– To promote innovation and R&D in cutting edge technologies– To encourage adoption of ICTs in key economic and strategic sectors– To provide fiscal benefits to SMEs and Start-ups– To create a pool of 10 million additional skilled manpower – To make at least one individual in every household e-literate. – To provide for mandatory delivery of and affordable access to all

public services in electronic mode. – To leverage ICT for key Social Sector initiatives– To make India global hub for development of language technologies– Enable ICT applications for differently-abled people – To strengthen the Regulatory and Security Framework– To adopt Open standards and promote open source

Key Strategies of the Policy………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

Key Strategies of the Policy……….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

Key Strategies of the Policy………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

Key Strategies of the PolicySecure & ‘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

India Story

Over 940 million Telephone subscribers, overall teledensity has crossed 77%, Indian telecom network - second largest in the world (Oct2012)

The India’s ICT Domestic Sector………

National e-Governance Programme (NeGP) covering:• 31 Mission Mode Projects (MMPS)• Common Services Centres (CSCs)• State Data Centres (SDCs)• State Wide Area Network (SWAN)• State Service Delivery Gateway (SSDG) and State Portal

Free Software Tools and Fonts in all 22 Indian languages

Unique Identification Card Project

Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) to tackle challenges in area of information security and vulnerabilities.

India StoryThe India’s ICT Domestic Sector………..

Backbone with 21 PoPs completed This provides the required redundancy and availability of NKN CORE.Gateways at Mumbai & Chennai apart from Delhi HyderabadAs on 31 July, 2012, 846 institutions of higher learning and advanced research have been connected to NKN and 66 virtual classrooms have been set up.

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

The India’s ICT Domestic Sector…………

Five Pillars of Success

INDIA’S VALUE PROPOSITION

Source: NASSCOM

Transforming Client’s Business Needs in the New Global Economy

IT /BPO Sector

Optimum Cost Efficiency

Unparalled Human Capital

Supportive Ecosystem

Scalable and Secure

Unique Customer Centricity

• Highest out-turn of

technical grads – CAGR of

16 per cent

• Highest ready-to-hire

talent (36 per cent)

compared to other

sourcing markets

• Talent re-engineering

initiatives leading to

diverse talent pool

• Industry implements

globally accepted

engagement models

• Building capabilities in

emerging verticals

• Re-engineering business

delivery models to create

IP

• Deeper strategic client

relationships

• Focus on re-engineering

delivery models

• India’s size offering

inherent concentration

mitigation

• BCM practices at par with

US, UK standards

• Expanding global delivery

network footprint (over

560 centres across 70

countries)

• Adoption of global

information security best

practices

• Government support

• Strong investments in

infrastructure

development

• Expansion in to maturing

Tier II locations

• e-Governance initiatives

driving ICT investments

• Quality business

infrastructure highly

competitive

• Delivering 50-80 per cent

in cost savings

• Expanding delivery

centres

• Cost control on entry-

level salaries – CAGR of

4.6 per cent during FY06-

11 period

• Control over non-

employee costs

• Role progression 1.5-2X

faster in India than the

US

India’s value proposition in IT exports

India has been collaborating with various Developed and Developing countries in ICT sector

India is collaborating with – developed Nations: to learn emerging technologies– developing countries: to assist them in ICT4D

Major International Initiatives • Ebene Cyber City at Mauritius

• Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in IT at Accra, Ghana

• AB Vajpayee Centre of Excellence for ICT at Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

• Jawaharlal Nehru India Uzbekistan Centre for ICT at Tashkent

• Bedil India - Tajikistan Centre for IT at Dushanbe, Tazikistan

• HRD for Software Industry in Vietnam

• Mirza Abdul Qadir Bedil IT Centre at Tajikistan

• Centre of Excellence in IT at Tanzania, Armenia, Myanmar

• Pan-Africa network

• Connecting ERNET India with European Research Network GEANT

• EU-India Grid

Global Outreaches

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