i) Info-Infrastructure
Drive: Accelerate the drive for
setting up a World class Info
Infrastructure with an extensive spread
of Fibre Optic Networks, Satcom Networks
and Wireless Networks for seamlessly
interconnecting the Local Informatics
Infrastructure (LII), National
Informatics Infrastructure (NII) and the
Global Informatics Infrastructure (GII)
to ensure a fast nation-wide onset of the
INTERNET, EXTRANETs and INTRANETs.
ii)
Target ITEX - 50: With a potential
2 trillion dollar Global IT industry by
the year 2008, policy ambiance will be
created for the Indian IT industry to
target for a $ 50 billion annual export
of IT Software and IT Services (including
IT-enabled services) by this year, over a
commensurately large domestic IT market
spread all over the country.
iii)
IT for all by 2008: Accelerate the
rate of PC / set-top-box penetration in
the country from the 1998 level of one
per 500 to one per 50 people along with a
universal access to Internet / Extranets/
Intranets by the year 2008, with a flood
of IT applications encompassing every
walk of economic and social life of the
country. The existing over 600,000 Public
Telephones / Public Call Offices (PCOs)
will be transformed into public
tele-info- centres offering a variety of
multimedia Information services. Towards
the goal of IT for all by 2008, policies
are provided for setting the base for a
rapid spread of IT awareness among the
citizens, propagation of IT literacy,
networked Government, IT-led economic
development, rural penetration of IT
applications, training citizens in the
use of day-to-day IT services like
tele-banking, tele-medicine,
tele-education, tele-documents transfer,
tele-library, tele-info-centres,
electronic commerce, Public Call Centres,
among others; and training, qualitatively
and quantitatively, world class IT
professionals.
