Information technology research and advisory company Gartner has said that the governments in India are likely to spend $7 billion on IT products and services, which include consulting, software support, business process outsourcing, IT outsourcing, implementation, and hardware support, an increase of 3.1 percent over 2015.
The forecast includes spending on internal services, software, IT services, data center, devices and telecom services by state governments as well as the central government, which essentially refers to salaries and benefits paid to the information services staff of an organization. IT services which includes consulting, software support, business process outsourcing, IT outsourcing, implementation, and hardware support is expected to grow 8.8 per cent in 2016 to reach $1.6 billion, also the business process outsourcing sub-segment will grow by 22 per cent.
As per Gartner, government spending on software will total $938 million in 2016, a 9.9 percent increase from 2015, Telecom services will be at $1.5 billion, with the mobile network services sub-segment recording the fastest growth of 3.5 percent in 2016 to reach $793 million.
Driven by the Digital India initiative, government spending on IT has been increasing since last couple of years. The ‘Digital India’ focuses on building digital infrastructure, providing government service on the web and mobile platforms to digitally empower citizens, with an estimated investment of Rs 1.13 lakh crore over the next three to five years.
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