National Policy on Information Technology, 2012 (NPIT 2012) India

 

PART -2
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VISION To strengthen and enhance India’s position as the Global IT hub and to use IT and cyber space as an engine for rapid, inclusive and substantial growth in the national economy MISSION 1. 2. To consolidate India's position as the global IT & ITES hub and leverage IT to contribute significantly to GDP and employment. To create a sustainable ecosystem for R&D and Innovation to emerge as a global leader in the conception, design and development of new products, services, processes and business models. To leverage ICT for enhanced competitiveness and productivity of key economic and strategic sectors. To provide ubiquitous affordable access to information and public services for enhancing efficiency, transparency, accountability and reliability and leverage use of ICT as a driver for social inclusion To be the leading resource base for IT and ITES talent for domestic and global markets. To ensure a secure cyber space to facilitate trust and enable sustained growth of ICT. To transform India into a Knowledge Society.

OBJECTIVES
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1. To increase revenues of IT and ITES Industry from 100 Billion USD at present to 300 Billion USD by 2020 and expand exports from 69 Billion USD at present to 200 Billion USD by 2020.

2. To gain significant global market-share in emerging technologies and Services.

3. To promote innovation and R&D in cutting edge technologies and development of applications and solutions in areas like localization, location based services, mobile value added services, Cloud Computing, Social Media and Utility models.

 4. To encourage adoption of ICTs in key economic and strategic sectors to improve their competitiveness and productivity.

5. To provide fiscal benefits to SMEs and Startups for adoption of IT in value creation

6. To create a pool of 10 million additional skilled manpower in ICT. 

7. To make at least one individual in every household e-literate. 

8. To provide for mandatory delivery of and affordable access to all public services in electronic mode. 

9. To enhance transparency, accountability, efficiency, reliability and decentralization in Government and in particular, in delivery of public services. 

10. To leverage ICT for key Social Sector initiatives like Education, Health, Rural Development and Financial Services to promote equity and quality.

11. To make India global hub for development of language technologies, to encourage and facilitate development of content accessible in all Indian languages and thereby help bridge the digital divide.

12. To enable access of content and ICT applications by differently-abled people to foster inclusive development.

13. To leverage ICT for expanding the workforce and enabling life-long learning.

14. To strengthen the Regulatory and Security Framework for ensuring a Secure and legally compliant Cyberspace ecosystem.

15. To adopt Open standards and promote open source and open technologies

IV. 1. STRATEGIES Creating ecosystem for a globally competitive IT/ITES Industry
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To make requisite policy changes to make India a preferred destination to establish and operate IT/ITES enterprises including a stable tax regime and strengthening of the enabling infrastructure. To formulate Fiscal and other Policies to attract investment in IT Industry in Tier II & Tier III cities and rural areas for expanding the base of IT and for creating employment opportunities across the country.
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To promote ICT companies in accessing new markets through bilateral agreements enhancing smooth trade and facilitating mobility for skilled workforce and creating awareness To formulate policies to provide fiscal benefits to SMEs and Startups in the key industrial sectors for adoption of IT in value creation To evolve sector specific strategies in areas like engineering, health, education, skill development, security, legal, financial, accounting, etc. with the ministries and representative sector bodies concerned to create/ open up the remote services market in new fields/ services and to enhance value addition in existing services To evolve new region/ market specific strategies with the ministries and industry bodies concerned in order to enter/expand new markets To integrate Indian IT products, services and expertise in Indian foreign aid programs
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Human Resource Development 2.1 To create necessary physical and institutional infrastructure for creating a pool of 10 million trained persons in IT sector by the year 2020 through formal and nonformal sectors, with focus on skill development and expertise creation. 2.2 To set up Centers of Excellence in institutes of higher learning to promote highend research in specialized ICT areas and producing quality doctoral and postdoctoral level researchers. 2.3 To create a mechanism to ensure that at least one individual in every household is e-literate. 2.4 To create a framework a to certify the level of applied knowledge and skills of personnel in specific areas of ICT. 2.5 To catalyse continuous updation of curriculum and syllabi at all levels to include the current developments and relevant knowledge of ICT as an integral part of the educational programmes.
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Promotion of Innovation and R&D in IT Sector 3.1 To support SMEs and startup companies to equip them for competitive environment through fiscal benefits, innovation fund and incubation facilities. 3.2 To create an Innovation Challenge Agenda to promote innovation in ICT sector. 3.3 To build R&D infrastructure and test facilities for development and adoption of emerging technologies like: Next Generation Computing Systems, High Performance Computing (HPC), Cloud Computing, GIS, Mobile Technologies,
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Inter-operable Infrastructure for Small Financial Transactions, Switch, Language Technologies etc. 3.4 To incentivize innovation in public supported research. 3.5 To promote industry-academia collaborative R&D with emphasis on innovation, products, patents and IPs 3.6 To encourage adoption of ICT based Green technologies as well as to promote green technologies by making them competitive through appropriate fiscal & nonfiscal policies. 3.7 To strengthen the ecosystem for creation as well as protection of Intellectual Property Enhancing productivity and competitiveness in key sectors through ICT 4.1 To leverage ICT including mobile technology to enable outreach of secure and interoperable financial and banking services in remote areas at affordable cost. 4.2 To enable long term partnership with Industry for: i. use of ICT in cutting edge technology and ii. driving development of new ICT technologies through strategic sectors (defence, atomic energy, space etc). iii. facilitate growth of IT SMEs and use of IT across all SMEs 4.3 To promote use of IT in key economic sectors such as Construction, Textiles, Pharmaceuticals, Banking, Finance, Retail, Energy, Automobiles, Healthcare, Education, Agriculture, Engineering Services, Transport and Logistics for improved efficiency and productivity. 4.4 To promote the availability and use of Public Key Infrastructure, payment gateways and authentication systems leveraging Aadhaar. Creating an ecosystem for Internet and mobile driven Service Industry 5.1 To leverage Internet and Web technologies for developing new products, technologies and businesses. 5.2 Enable seamless, ubiquitous, secure and personalized delivery of government and non-government services through Internet based and mobile based delivery of services throughout the country. 5.3 Foster an ecosystem for innovation in services by leveraging Aadhaar as well as financial and location-based services 5.4 To leverage mobile devices as instruments for enabling secure transactional services including financial services. 5.5 To promote development of an ecosystem for enabling innovation and entrepreneurship related to mobile Value added Services.
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Enabling Service Delivery through e-Governance 6.1 To implement the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) and mandate provision of all Government Services through Electronic mode within a fixed time frame by enactment of the Electronic Delivery of Services (EDS) Bill and through reengineering processes to enhance efficiencies of service delivery. 6.2 To mandate public procurement through electronic mode across all departments to enhance transparency and competition. 6.3 To set up a widespread network of Common Service Delivery Access points for enabling assisted access to electronic services. 6.4 To accelerate and standardize delivery of electronic services by providing Common Shareable Service Delivery Platforms by leveraging technologies like Cloud Computing. 6.5 To develop, adopt, evolve and notify standards for seamless interoperability of data and applications. 6.6 To promote open standards and open technologies. 6.7 To enhance institutional framework for Capacity Building Programme for imparting training across all levels. 6.8 To design and create a citizen engagement framework for utilization of social media by the government and its agencies. 6.9 To design and implement policy framework for placing data in public domain for use and value addition. 6.10 To promote Public Private Partnerships in e-Governance projects and facilitate flow of private sector financial and technical capabilities into the national egovernance effort especially in areas where viable investments are feasible. Development of Language Technologies 7.1 To undertake development of language technologies that enable text to speech and speech to text conversion, voice recognition, machine translation, Voice Web, Inter lingua etc to enable language independent delivery of services. 7.2 To make India the global hub for language technologies. GIS based IT Services 8.1 To develop GIS platform for facilitating location based planning, service delivery, information availability and disaster management 8.2 Enabling availability of public spatial data for value addition and innovation. Security of Cyber Space

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