Today, no one can think of life and business without the use of Information technology. It has become a part and parcel of everyone's life and industries, business also can not afford to ignore its importance. The use of information technology has improved operational efficiency and added to transparency. It also serves as a medium of skill formation.

In recent time India has emerged as a leading software exporting country. Lot of factors contributed to this rise in IT Sector.

The government of India has greatly emphasized on use and creating infrastructure required for the IT sector. In the past decade India has witnessed a major change from a backward country to a world class IT hub leaving behind the rest of the world. The government is also sidemarking separate places (Technology parks) for providing conducive environment for the growth and boost of IT sector .

Most of the software professionals of India are young and very competent. Most of the software engineers working in the U.S.A. are Indians only. Various universities and technical colleges have come up to groom young talent into buzzing professionals and impart professional training and enhance the IT skills.

The Indian people by nature are very analytical and logical and with the increased available resource to learn new technologies, they easily adapted the latest soft skills.

Today, Information Technology sector is contributing a major share to the GDP of the country and export earnings have helped India to balance the export-import ratio. At the same time, IT has also generated great employment opportunities. Government of India has also reciprocated to the IT sector by providing tax sops.

India has a very large chunk of population which has good control over english language and communication skills, hence they hardly feel any problem in communicating their foreign counter-parts.

India's reputation both as a source and a destination for skilled workforce helped in improving its relations with a number of world economies. Today, India is the largest democracy of the world.

The widespreading of internet and broadband in india is also seen as a great influence to the IT industry, as more and more people are becoming aware and getting used to the use of latest technologies.