2.Information Technology

Information Technology in India accounts for a substantial part of the country's GDP and export earnings while providing employment to a significant number of its tertiary sector workforce.[1] Technically proficient immigrants from India sought jobs in the western world from the 1950s onwards as India's education system produced more engineers than its industry could absorb.[2]


India's growing stature in the information age enabled it to form close ties with both the United States of America and the European Union.[3][4]Out of 400, 000 engineers produced per year in India, 100, 000 possessed both technical competency and English language skills.[5] India developed a number of outsourcing companies specializing in customer support via Internet or telephone connections.[5]


The Indian Government acquired the EVS EM computers from the Soviet Union, which were used in large companies and research laboratories.[2] Tata Consultancy Services established in 1968 by the Tata Group—were the country's largest software producers during the 1960s.[2] As an outcome of the various policies of Jawaharlal Nehru (office: 15 August 1947 – 27 May 1964) the economically beleaguered country was able to build a large scientific workforce, second in numbers only to that of the United States of America and the Soviet Union.[11]


On 18 August 1951 the minister of education Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, inaugurated the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur in West Bengal.[12] Possibly modeled after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology these institutions were conceived by a 22 member committee of scholars and entrepreneurs under the chairmanship of N. R. Sarkar.[12]