The IT Factor!
The
impact that the field of Information Technology has on our lives is
unparalleled. It hasn’t left untouched any field of our society. It has an impact on all our strata of
existence ranging from societal to economical.
Statistics show that about 30 Lakhs
is the number of people who are employed in the field of IT in India. Apart
from the obvious positive impact that it has on employment, if not for IT, our
education space wouldn’t have emerged as much. Which other industry could have
absorbed as many engineers? Engineering in itself wouldn’t have found so many
applicants.
IT has had a huge role to play in
the emerging middle class and its purchasing power too. For a nation which boasts
of a majority of youth population, a large chunk of it is employed in this
industry. If there is a reason why the global brands jostle for some space in
the great bazaar that is India, it has much to do with this employed class. As much an enabler industry it is, the kind of disposable income it provides its mostly young employees gifts a windfall to other industries too.
There might not be many work places
which take as good care of its employees as does an IT firm. Far and few
industries have such infrastructure and amenities. How many industries can boast
of a work environment that is free of pollution – be it of noise or air or
water? Almost every other industry demands 6 days of a week from its employees.
Most of them cannot afford to provide facilities which will take care of its
employees’ areas of interest outside of work.
The social impact that this industry
has is also tremendous. No more do people have to live in god forsaken places because
of the presence of industries is so far away from the civilization. IT firms’
offices are mostly within city limits. This means a person can choose to make a living and at the same time live close to his friends and family.
Not very long ago, the cities of
India which could provide employment used to be mostly in the Central states
and upwards. This was beginning to exert a considerable pressure on the urban infrastructure.
Enter IT and comes a reverse migration of sorts to the southern cities and
their emergence. Also, IT has limited the brain drain that used to happen to
an extent. People prefer staying put in India although we still look for small
stints abroad. Again, which other industry would have provided stints abroad for
such a large population is such a small time?
In the last two decades of our
great Nation’s existence and emergence as a force to be reckoned with on the
global arena, IT is undoubtedly the it factorJ.
Arun
Babu
good one
ReplyDeleteThough I find the brain drain part disputable,I agree with the social and economical changes that IT brought in. Especially the global outlook among the youngsters is quite evident.:)
DeleteNow,Inspite of all the pamperings why does the IT poplulation feel stressed out the most?;):P
thank you gvamma for giving it a read :)...and abot the stress part, I think not many fields entrust so much responsibility at such a young age I guess...
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