Expectations from the new government and how will it impact the IT industry – By Saurabh Saxena, Country Director, Micro Focus India

“India’s rich diversity, demographic potential, fast-growing market size and digital infrastructure has potential to make India a global hub for research and implementation. With initiatives like Digital India, Make in India, AI council, etc. the Government had set a great precedent in accelerating the era of digital transformation and Industry 4.0. Though some of the economic policies created a blizzard of controversy, they successfully paved a path to use science, technology and innovation skills for the citizen services as well as to boost the indigenous innovations, achieving synergy between various industries and scientific research. This was reflected in a historic movement as the World Bank’s latest Ease of Doing Business Reported India’s rise to 77^th rank, up from 100 within a year. Introduction of technology in the sphere of governance has brought in greater transparency, accountability, and monitoring. With the second term, we expect the government to utilize the mettle of India Inc and emerging technologies like AL, ML, IoT and Big Data to solve socio-economic issues of the country. The need of the hour is also to pursue with more vigour important initiatives like deregulation and privatization of state-owned companies along with reforms to modernize labour markets to uplift the job scenario in the country. There are mounting possibilities and expectations for the Government, we look forward to the Centre to now lead us into a better connected world.”