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Information Technology industry or IT as it is popularly known specialises in Research and Development
(R&D), manufacture of electronics and production of hardware and software. A major impact of this industry
in India has been on employment generation. Up to 31st March 2005, the IT industry employed over one
million persons. This number was expected to increase eight fold in the following 3 to 4 years. This means
that by 2008-2009 the IT industry was expected to provide employment to nearly 8 million people. The
industry has also provided employment opportunity to women, and about 30 per cent of the people employed
in this sector are women. The IT industry has been a major foreign exchange earner in the last few years
because of its fast growing Business Processes Outsourcing (BPO) sector. The continuing growth in
hardware and software is the key to the success of IT industry in India.The IT industry has provided India a
special position in the industrial world. Software technology parks provide single window service and high
data communication facility to software experts. There are 18 software technology parks in India. They are
located at Srinagar, Mohali, Noida, Jaipur, Gandhinagar, Indore, Mumbai, Pune, Kolkata, Bhubaneswar,
Guwahati, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Mysore, Chennai, Thiruvananthapuram and Vishakhapatnam.
a. What has facilitated IT in earning major foreign exchange in the recent past?
b. What are software technology parks?
c. What does an IT industry manufacture?
d. “IT Industry in India is very successful”. Give reason
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