IT sector what doing in past five years

By- Akash kamble

What did IT sector In five years
• The minister, while sharing the data sourced from industry body Nasscom, said
Congress was indulging in falsehoods as they have nothing to offer from their own
side.

• As congress and other opposition parties are raking up the issue of jobs losses,
Electronics and Information Tecnology minister Rvi shankar prasad on Wednesday
said that that in thepast five years, 8.74 lakh new jobs have been created in the
information technology sector
 He said overall, the It and IteS(IT enabled services) Sector employs
41.40lakh people
Directyl and generates almost 1.3 crore jobs indirectly. Apart from that, he
said 12 lakh
Jobs have been created through common service centres, 6.7 lakh direct and
indirect jobs in electronics manufacturing,. 23,000 jobs in BPOs in small
towns and another 40,000 direct
Jobs in start- up, which also created 2.5 to3 lakh indirect jobs.

Further mounting the pressure on Congres, the minister challenged the

party to show their record of employment generated in 10 years of UPA?” He
added
IT sector History –

India’s IT sector industry was born in Mumbai in 1967 with the establishment
of Tata consultancy services. Who in 1977 partnered WITH Burroughs which began
India’s export zone, SEEPZ – the precursor to the modern- day IT park – was
established in Mumbai in 1973. More than 80 percent of the country software
export were from SEEPZ in 1980.
Major information technology hubs

Bangalore –
Bangalore is a global technology hub and is Indias biggest tec hub.[22] As of fiscal 2016–17, Bangalore
accounted for 38% of total IT exports from India worth $45 billion, employing 10 lakh people directly and 30 lakh
indirectly.[23] The city is known as the “Silicon Valley of India”.[24][25] Notable tech parks are Electronic City, ITPL,
Bagmane Tech Park, Embassy Golf Links, Manyata Tech Park, Global Village Tech Park, Embassy TechVillage. Apart
from these IT companies are also located in several other parts of the city. Notable IT companies of the area include
Infosys, Wipro, HCL Technologies, SAP Labs, Accenture, TCS, Oracle, IBM India, Sonata Software, Mindtree, and Intuit
India.[26]

Bangalore is also known as the “startup capital of India”; the city is home to 44 percent of all Indian unicorn startup
companies as of 2020.[27]
Hyderabad -
Hyderabad – known for the HITEC City or Cyberabad – is India’s second largest information technology
exporter and a major global IT hub, and the largest bioinformatics hub in India.[28][29] Hyderabad has
emerged as the second largest city in the country for software exports pipping competitors Chennai and
Pune.[30][31][32] Notable tech companies include Accenture, Amazon, Deloitte, Tata Consultancy Services,
Microsoft, HCL Technologies, Oracle Corporation, Google, Qualcomm, Dell, Cognizant. As of 2020, the IT
exports from Hyderabad was ₹128,807 crore (US$15 billion), the city houses 1500 IT and ITES companies that
provide 582,126 employment.[33][34][35][36] Notable tech and pharma parks are HITEC City, Genome
Valley, and Hyderabad Pharma City.
Pune -
• The Rajiv Gandhi Infotech Park in Hinjawadi is a ₹60,000 crore (US$8.9 billion) project
by the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC).[41][42] The IT Park
encompasses an area of about 2,800 acres (11 km2) and is home to over 800 IT
companies of all sizes.[43] Besides Hinjawadi, IT companies are also located at
Magarpatta city, Kharadi, Kalyani nagar, Yerawada, Aundh and several other parts of
the city. Major IT companies like TCS, Wipro, Infosys, Cognizant, Tech mahindra,
Cybage, Zensar technologies, Amdocs, Capegemini, Sungard, HCL Technologies,
Persistent technology etc. have offices in Pune. As of 2019, the IT sector employs more
than 500,000 people