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R & D in Information Technology

In the recent past, the IT industry has emerged as a major contributor to the industry revenue as well as employment opportunity provider in the country. Though the Indian IT industry has been driven by software development services in the beginning, the trend is changing. The country is becoming an R&D hub of multinational IT companies. Several India-based multinational IT giants also have set up their R&D and innovation centres. The Government views R&D as essential for the implementation of new initiatives such as Digital India, Make in India and Startup India and has launched new schemes in R&D.

Objective

The objective is to promote Research and Development in the Emerging areas of Information Technology for development of new technologies/ software to address the various societal/ industrial/ business/ government needs. The major thrust areas include Emerging Areas of Information Technology (IT), Quantum Technologies, Blockchain, Data Analytics, IoT, Perception Engineering, Artificial Intelligence (AI) etc.

R&D Society

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)

In order to take up R&D works in the frontier areas of ICT, C-DAC was established in 1988 as a scientific society under the administrative purview of the Department. Currently, C-DAC has 11 centres spread across the country with the headquarters at Pune. The centres are working in different technology areas such as high-performance computing, microprocessor development, blockchain technology, quantum computing, data analytics, technology for Indian languages, e-security, health informatics, IT applications in agriculture, etc.

For more details http://cdac.in/

Projects

For further information please contact:

Smt. Sunita Verma
Group Coordinator & Senior Director
R&D in Information Technology
Phone: 011-24364810
email: sunita[at]meity[dot]gov[dot]in