When it comes to IT, what are the most important tasks before the government?

Ninad Karpe, CEO & MD, Aptech

• Extension of STPI scheme and other sops to boost recession-hit exports industry
• Intervention in education system to sustain Indias competitive advantage in talent supply
• Duty incentives for growing domestic IT market

What, according to you, are the three most important steps that you want from the new government that would help the cause of IT in India?

• Extension of the STPI scheme beyond the year 2012 will definitely help the Indian IT sector in facing the global recession (client losses, cut in retainers bill, cut in IT expenditures)
• Investment and development of IT infrastructure
• Promoting e-governance in government sector, education and public administration. Also deployment of technology for enabling web security

When it comes to IT, what are the most important tasks before the government?

PV Kannan, CEO, 24/7 Customer

• Extension of STPI scheme and other sops to boost recession-hit exports industry
• Intervention in education system to sustain Indias competitive advantage in talent supply
• Acceleration of deployment of telecom infrastructure such as broadband and Wimax

What, according to you, are the three most important steps that you want from the new government that would help the cause of IT in India?

• Easing tax regulations: The taxes applicable for BPO and IT companies are at par with each other. The BPO industry is a smaller industry and the profit margins are lesser in comparison to the IT industry. Similar taxation applied for dissimilar industries will definitely affect the growth of the industry, especially during the current global economic recession. The government should re-evaluate withdrawing sops from STPI and providing the same to the SEZs. The BPO industry falls under STPI and hence will lose out on the benefits. These issues affect our competitiveness in the global arena.
• Improving supply infrastructure: In terms of skilled workforce, though India has a vast number of engineers graduating every year, due to an outdated curriculum, there is an employability gap as the potential candidates are not industry ready.
• Foreign affairs: Tightening of regulations by the US government specifically with respect to taxation on companies moving jobs offshore will have an impact on the IT/BPO industry and the new government must help ease the situation

When it comes to IT, what are the most important tasks before the government?

Anurag Jain, MD, Asia Pacific, Perot Systems

• Extension of STPI scheme and other sops to boost recession-hit exports industry
• Intervention in education system to sustain Indias competitive advantage in talent supply
• Acceleration of deployment of telecom infrastructure such as broadband and Wimax

What, according to you, are the three most important steps that you want from the new government that would help the cause of IT in India?

• Extension of the STPI Scheme for a few years would bring back confidence
• Duty incentives and SOPs for manufacturing of technology products/devices
• Deployment of quality IT infrastructure and software in the delivery of services to the people by the government
• The government should focus on furthering the national skills development agenda, which in turn will lead to holistic balanced growth, which would raise the purchasing power of the country and lead to long term sustainable growth of the IT industry

When it comes to IT, what are the most important tasks before the government?

Anand Sankaran, sr VP & head, India & Middle East, Wipro

• Deployment of IT in all governance areas including citizen services, security and inter governmental functions
• Duty incentives for growing domestic IT market
• Take necessary policy steps to boost local IT manufacturing

What, according to you, are the three most important steps that you want from the new government that would help the cause of IT in India?
We would like to congratulate the new government on winning the elections with a clear mandate. Having a stable government at the helm of affairs will also provide a steadier impetus towards economic recovery. We are confident that the government, led by Dr Manmohan Singh, will continue the reforms initiated and provide astute economic foresight.

A few focus areas for the new Government could be

• Encourage spending in the economy especially on public infrastructure like roads, power, transportation, etc
• Control inflation to ensure that it does not mitigate the net growth
• Speedy deployment of IT in all governance areas
• Provide SOPs for R&D activities in IT which will create a treasury of IPR and built stability in this industry.
• Provide duty incentives to the domestic IT market
• Encourage local IT manufacturing

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