The IT Vision Document declared by BJP recently has surprised the industry leaders with many practical sops. Here is a glimpse of comments by various corporate executives on the document. These comments are taken from various official news and analysis websites.

•       Most information tenchnology (IT) firms are of the view that the IT vision of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is a good omen for the domestic IT industry which is buckling under the pressure of global meltdown for the past couple of quarters.
•       Venkatesh Hariharan, corporate affairs director, Red Hat India says, “BJP’s IT Vision is a comprehensive document and addresses many key issues – creation of IT related jobs, Indian language computing, telecom and broadband penetration, ICT in education and others. It’s for the first time that any party has unveiled such a detailed IT Vision.”  Hariharan comments that BJP has been making extensive use of open source for computerizing the party’s activities over the last 18 months.
•       Vivek Kulkarni, former IT secretary of Karnataka, who is now the chairman and CEO of  BrickWork India, said, “The IT vision of BJP will really come handy for creation of new job opportunities in the IT and ITeS sector in India where we still have a large percentage of
unemployed graduates struggling to provide their services for the growth of the country.”
•       Sudhindra Mokhasi, founder & CEO of e-Sutra, sees the document as overall a comprehensive and ambitious statement of intent, especially the open source preference, e-governance thrust, wider last-mile internet access, 100 million low-cost computers, education and financing.
•       Terming the document a positive intent, Ramakrishna Voruganti, managing director of Barracuda Networks (India), said, MNIC will help traceability of transactions and will result in better tax collections
•       Ajay Dhir, CIO of Jindal Steel, said the multipurpose national identity card (MNIC) with unique citizen identification number for every Indian citizen is a good initiative. “Besides, the other schemes
like IT-enabled jobs in rural areas, 1 crore students to get laptop computers at Rs 10,000 are all good schemes. Overall, one can say that it is a progressive vision.” “The linking of PHCs, schools and
colleges, use of IT in agriculture, rural development, SMEs, retail trade, informal and unorganised will greatly impact at the grassroots, will improve the off-farm employment in the villages, and prevent labour migration,” he said.
•       VoIP service provider fraternity has welcomed BJP’s IT Vision Document promise if it came to power.
•       Vinnie Mehta, executive director of MAIT, the body that represents the hardware industry in India, said: “We are glad that somebody has defined their IT agenda very clearly. It’s more gladdening to see that they have touched on the hardware sector, which has untapped potential
to create lot more job opportunities. The announcement is very timely and pertinent, as the IT industry needs some succour due to the current economic situation.”
•       “The potential of IT in the creation of job opportunities in India is still enormous and I am delighted that the BJP has come out with a strong vision statement for the IT industry. I won’t be able to comment on how it will help them in capturing votes,” said Ganesh Natarajan, chairman, Nasscom.