About Indian Department of Information Technology & Electronics

The Indian electronics & IT industry is the fastest growing sector of Indian industry. It has recorded a production of Rs. 68,850 crore during the year 2000-01, and is likely to achieve a production of Rs. 368,220 crore during the year 2008-09. Thus the industry has grown by a factor over by five times during the last eight years. The software industry which was worth Rs. 37,750 crore in 2000-01 is likely to achieve a production of Rs. 273,530 crore during the year 2008-09. Software exports have become an important part of India’s exports, and India’s international image. Indian Software exports have risen from Rs. 28,350 crore in 2000-01 towards estimated figure of Rs. 216,300 crore in 2008-09. This success in software has been built on the foundations of public investments in human capital, outward orientation in policies, and a highly competitive private sector industry. The Economic Planning Group maintains a database of production and exports data relating to Electronics and IT-ITeS industry. This data is collected from different manufacturing and service industry and industry associations. The data is released on as annual basis through the Annual Report of DIT.