NATIONAL POLICY ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

NATIONAL POLICY ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

•  The Indian IT and ITES sector currently employs over 2.5 million skilled people and has been one of the major employment generators in the last two decades.
•  The focus of the IT Policy is on deployment of ICT in all sectors of the economy and providing IT solutions to the world.  
•  The National Policy on IT aims to strengthen and enhance India’s position as the Global IT hub and to use IT as an engine for rapid, inclusive and sustainable growth in the national economy.
•  The Policy aims to maximally leverage the power of ICT to help address the monumental economic and developmental challenges the country faces.

THRUST AREAS OF POLICY:

• Increase revenues of IT and ITES Industry from 88 Billion USD at present to 300 Billion USD by 2020.
•  Formulate fiscal and other policies to attract investment in IT Industry in Tier II & Tier III cities.
•  Promote innovation and R&D in cutting edge technologies and development of applications and solutions in areas like localization, location based services, mobile value added services, Cloud Computing, Social Media and Utility models.
•  Provide fiscal benefits to SMEs and startups in the key industrial sectors for adoption of IT in value creation
•  Integrate Internet based and mobile based delivery of services onto a common platform to enable seamless, ubiquitous, secure and personalized delivery of government and non-government services throughout the country
•   Integrate Aadhaar, financial and location-based services into this integrated platform to foster an ecosystem for innovation in services
•   Create a pool of 10 million additional skilled manpower in ICT.
•   Make at least one individual in every household e-literate.
•  Extend the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) and mandate provision of all Government services through Electronic mode within a fixed time frame by enactment of the  Electronic Delivery of Services (EDS) Bill
•   Make India global hub for development of language technologies to encourage and facilitate development of content accessible in all Indian languages and thereby help bridge the digital divide.
•   Enable access of content and ICT applications by differently abled people to foster inclusive development.
•  Strengthen the Regulatory and Security Framework for ensuring a Secure Cyberspace ecosystem.