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Animation, engineering services will be in focus: Nasscom chief



Chennai: Lakshmi Narayan, the new chief of India's IT body Nasscom, is fascinated by the animation industry and says this sector along with engineering services will be key focus areas in the future.

"There will be no shift in priorities, but the area I want to emphasise is leveraging the existing strength of the industry," said Narayan, who was in April appointed chairman of the National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) for the year 2007-08.


"The future areas are going to be engineering services and the animation industry," Narayan, 55, told IANS in an interview. "As we go toward greater convergence, I would like to focus on new and emerging technologies."

"Companies from India can provide support services in design, drawing, architectural services, auto component designing, aircraft component designing...we have to look at new opportunities," he said.

Nasscom has said Warren brothers and MGM are looking at outsourcing some of its technology to India. "I am fascinated by animation technology," admitted the vice chairman, board of directors, Cognizant Technologies Solution.

Narayan holds a BSc, an MSc and an MBA degree from the Indian Institute of Science. He joined Cognizant in 1994 and has worked in the IT sector for 25 years in Europe, India and the US. He began his career at Tata Consultancy Services and became its regional head.

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