Published & Updated as on - 2010-05-06
With
the IT sector tipped to grow four times in scale over the next decade, National
Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) will push for
earmarking more SEZ space for small and medium IT players, Nasscom President
Som Mittal said here on Friday.
 Addressing the Nasscom
Emergeout conclave, an interactive platform for the SME segment on the theme
“Nurturing the IT DNA in India's growth sectors”, Mr. Mittal said the
association had initiated State-level talks on framing broad guidelines to
address the space requirements of small and medium enterprises (SME) that would
facilitate formation of ecosystems in Tier-II and Tier-III cities. While SEZs
could still have a big firm as anchor customer, it could allocate space for
SMEs around that. Smaller players would need at least 80 per cent of the carpet
area, he said.
At present, 95 per cent of the IT and
BPO-related work is being executed across seven major cities and by 2020
Nasscom expects 43 smaller towns to join the ecosystem.
According
to Mr. Mittal, the government had been responsive to the need to provide some
form of support to the SME segment in the eventuality of the Software
Technology Parks of India (STPI) being withdrawn.
Nasscom
expects to launch its e-governance portal ‘egovreach' in July that would
encourage anyone with solutions for e-governance.
The next decade
would be one of big opportunities and the industry would have to adopt frugal
engineering and innovation where solutions are cheaper, quicker and work for
high volumes, Mr. Mittal said. The business models in the days ahead had to
change and the course of growth was likely to be along uncharted areas,
unexplored verticals and untouched customer segments, he said.
Stressing
the need for industry to evolve multi-tier models of delivery and the need for
“ancillarisation” on the lines of the automotive sector where smaller units
grew around a major, Mr. Mittal spelt out the five-point agenda as catalysing
growth beyond core markets (the U.S., the U.K. and the rest of Europe) and
across new verticals (public sector and healthcare), build India as a trust-worthy
destination, harness ICT for inclusive growth and work with government to
develop an ecosystem, supplement the quality of talent pool and develop an
innovation hub in India.
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