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Cabinet approves policy on Information Technology 2012 | | The Union Cabinet has approved the National Policy on Information Technology 2012. The policy aims to leverage Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to address country’s economic and developmental challenges, and envisages growth of the IT market to three hundred billion US dollars, besides creation of additional 10 million employments by 2020. The thrust areas of the policy include:
1. To increase revenues of IT and ITES (Information Technology Enabled Services)
Industry from 100 Billion USD currently to 300 Billion USD by 2020 and expand
exports from 69 Billion USD currently to 200 Billion USD by 2020. 2. To gain significant
global market-share in emerging technologies and Services. 3. To 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. 4. To encourage adoption of
ICTs in key economic and strategic sectors to improve their competitiveness and
productivity. 5. To provide fiscal benefits to SMEs and Startups for adoption
of IT in value creation 6. To create a pool of 10 million additional skilled manpower
in ICT. 7. To make at least one individual in every household e-literate. 8. To
provide for mandatory delivery of and affordable access to all public services
in electronic mode. 9. To enhance transparency, accountability, efficiency, reliability
and decentralization in Government and in particular, in delivery of public services.
10. To leverage ICT for key Social Sector initiatives like Education, Health,
Rural Development and Financial Services to promote equity and quality. 11. To
make India the 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. 12. To enable access of content and ICT applications
by differently-abled people to foster inclusive development. 13. To leverage ICT
for expanding the workforce and enabling life-long learning. 14. To strengthen
the Regulatory and Security Framework for ensuring a Secure and legally compliant
Cyberspace ecosystem. 15. To adopt Open standards and promote open source and
open technologies The policy attempts to optimally leverage India ’s global edge
in ICT to advance national competitiveness in other sectors, particularly those
of strategic and economic importance. The Policy will be notified in the Gazette
shortly. Detailed proposals for individual initiatives will be formulated in consultation
with the concerned Ministries.
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