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Andhra Pradesh

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Be Indian and feel Indian, says Dayanidhi Maran

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, JULY 31. The Union Minister for Communication and Information Technology, Dayanidhi Maran, has said that the Government will shortly be bringing about `crucial' policy changes to make `.in' domain more popular in India and the world over.

Speaking after inaugurating the SDE Prameela Techno Park (housing Satyam Cyber Space) at Madhapur here on Saturday, he said: "After all we are all patriotic Indians and we should have more and more .in domain names."

Second IT wave

Most IT companies have been registering themselves under Top Level Domains like `.com' and `.net', he said but hoped to see more companies registered under the `.in' domain. Meanwhile as a stop gap arrangement, he suggested that mirror websites could be hosted under the Top Level domain `.in' to overcome limitations of contractual obligations of previously registered domain names.

Mr. Maran said we were witnessing a second big wave of IT in the name of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES). The Government, he said, was formulating `Data Protection Laws,' which would help this sector and expected ITES to generate sizeable employment opportunities.

Priority industry

The Government regarded IT as one of the top five priority industries, and it was part of the national agenda. He felt the country has stable `pro-IT' Government policies. India is riding on the forefront of the technology wave and being the world's second highly populated country, human resources are a boon.

Software revenue

The service sector, he pointed out, contributed 51 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Last year, the Indian software and services industry grew by 28 per cent registering revenues of $15.9 billions, up from $12.4 billion in the previous year.

According to estimates of National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), the IT industry would cross $20 billions by end of this year, he said. Also, of 84 global SEI-CMM (Software Engineering Institute-Capability Maturity Model) level companies, he noted with satisfaction that 65 were in India. Of these 35 were in Bangalore.

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