Question.
What is the major impact of the Information Technology (IT) revolution in India?
(NCERT class 12 geography, India People and Economy, Chapter-8-Manufacturing Industries)
Answer.
Information Technology (IT) is a type of knowledge-based industry. It comes under the service sector of the economy.
Information Technology (IT) includes software development and development of communication technologies such as radio, television, print media, social media, etc.
Following are the major positive impacts of the Information Technology (IT) revolution in India;
- The Information Technology (IT) revolution has opened up new possibilities for economic and social change.
- Due to the information technology revolution, every person in India has a mobile phone.
- Information technology revolutionized our education system by facilitating interaction between students and teachers. Information technology has made teaching, learning, and assessment easier and faster in the field of education. It has made education inclusive for all.
- The IT revolution integrated the manufacturing process, administrative services, and business processes. Which made it easier to manage and the process faster. Marketing becomes easy through various websites and mobile technologies.
- IT has helped in making it easy and transparent to manage e-governance, public administration, public safety, etc. It has helped in identifying the beneficiaries and providing services to needy people.
- IT and IT-enabled services enabled Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). India is earning billions of dollars annually from abroad through BPO services.
- IT revolutionized the medical services and tourism sectors. Every year thousands of medical tourists come to India from abroad. IT has helped in making surgery highly precise and automated. Robotic technology has taken medical science far ahead.
- IT made online bookings like hotels, tickets, etc easy.
- E-commerce has boomed in India due to the IT revolution. Buyers and sellers have come on the same platform for marketing.
- Universal Payment Interface made transactions robust, fast and platform independent, made possible due to the revolution of IT.
- IT provides accurate weather updates which help in agriculture planning and other planning.
- The Indian software industry has emerged as one of the fastest-growing sectors of the Indian economy. The software industry has overtaken global hardware production.
- The Government of India has created many software parks in India. Indian software companies have achieved international quality certification.
- The major impact of the Information Technology (IT) revolution has been job creation which almost doubles every year.
There are some negative impacts also of the Information Technology (IT) revolution in India, some important are - increased cybercrime, online fraud, child abuse, pornography, increasing additives to the mobile games, etc.
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