Software Sops
By D Murali
The Hindu BusinessLine, January 17, 2009
The Department of Electronics (DoE) Secretary, Nagarajan Vittal, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Commerce, K. Roy Paul, and Economic Advisor, Pronab Sen, were the three individuals who changed the outlook of the DoE, writes Dinesh C. Sharma in The Long Revolution: The birth and growth of India’s IT industry (http://www.harpercollins.co.in/). “With similar wavelength and energy,” says Sharma, “the trio ensured that the DoE shed its image of being a scientific department to become an industry- and business-oriented ministry.”
He recounts how, within a week in office, Vittal met representatives of MAIT (Manufacturers’ Association for Information Technology) and Nasscom (National Association of Software and Services Companies). “The industry wanted high-speed data communication links to facilitate software exports… Extending export concessions and tax holidays to the software sector was the other demand.”....
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