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`Allow IT to grow uninhibited'

By Our Special Correspondent

The Director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, B.N. Suresh, delivering the presidential address at `Aryabhateeya-2003', a national seminar on Information Technology development and social perspectives, in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM Dec. 6. The Vice-Chairman of the State Planning Board, V. Ramachandran, has said that Kerala should take extra care to ensure that it reacted positively to the opportunities afforded by the Information Technology (IT) sector by shedding the negative attitudes that had undermined industrial growth here during the last three decades or so.

``If we persist with our negative attitudes, the job opportunities flowing into the State in the IT sector too will dry up,'' Mr. Ramachandran said, while inaugurating a national seminar on `Information Technology Development and Social Perspectives', organised by the `Swadeshi Science Movement' here today.

He said the simple logic of jobs getting outsourced from a country like the U.S. to India was that the jobs cost less here. IT had made this flow possible and the youngsters here should be allowed to reap its benefits. "Allow IT to grow the way our youngsters wish it to grow,'' he said.

The Director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, B. N. Suresh, who presided, said IT had virtually removed all geographical borders and connected the remotest areas to the mainstream of activity in the world. Twenty years ago none could have imagined the kind of changes IT had brought to the present-day world. It was equally difficult to visualise where IT would take the world 10 years hence.

Dr. Suresh said that despite India's inherent strengths, the software export from the country still was a meagre four or five per cent of the world market.

Anand Parthasarathy, IT journalist, who delivered the keynote address, said many of the key inventions in the IT sector in the recent years had Indian brains behind them. Indian ingenuity had created global headlines on quite a few occasions in the recent months, he said, listing several such instances.

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