Government IT Spending in India to Reach $7 Billion in 2016
June 17, 2016 | Gartner, Inc.Estimated reading time: 1 minute
The government in India will spend $7 billion US Dollars (USD) on IT products and services in 2016, an increase of 3.1% over 2015, according to Gartner, Inc. This forecast includes spending on internal services, software, IT services, data center, devices and telecom services. Government comprises state and local governments and national government.
IT services (which includes consulting, software support, business process outsourcing, IT outsourcing, implementation, and hardware support) is expected to grow 8.8% in 2016 to reach $1.6 billion USD – with the business process outsourcing sub-segment growing by 22 percent.
Telecom services will be a $1.5 billion USD market, with the mobile network services sub-segment recording the fastest growth of 3.5% in 2016 to reach $793 million USD.
"Government spending on software will total $938 million USD in 2016, a 9.9% increase from 2015," said Moutusi Sau principal research analyst at Gartner. "The software market will be led by growth in infrastructure."
Internal services will growth 5.8% in 2016 to reach $1.5 billion USD. Internal services refer to salaries and benefits paid to the information services staff of an organization. The information services staff includes all company employees that plan, develop, implement and maintain information systems.
"The ‘Digital India’ initiative continues to be drive investments in the government, led by access of government services on mobile devices (part of the mobile government), and expansion on broadband services," said Ms. Sau.
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