IT makes up 2.4% of GDP

Friday, 12 December 2003, 20:30 IST
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NEW DELHI: The IT sector employs 6.5 lakh workers and professionals and makes a contribution of 2.4% to GDP and 20.4% to its exports, Rajya Sabha was informed. The minister for communications and IT Arun Shourie said that 5 lakh route km of optical fibre have been laid by telecommunications companies to increase bandwidth availability for internet.
Source: IANS