Abstract
This IDC study provides an overview of the IT spending trends by the government
and education sector in India. It also provides insights into important
industry dynamics and opportunities; emerging trends, business challenges, and
issues; and the role that IT is playing to exploit opportunities and meet
challenges. This study also provides insights into the componentwise IT
spending patterns for major product categories in the vertical in 2006 as well
as a forecasts on an annual basis up to 2011.
"The total IT spending by the government and education sector in India was
US$1,734.4 million in 2006 and is expected to increase at a compound annual
growth rate (CAGR) of 16.8% throughout the forecast period to US$3,770.8
million by 2011. The major contribution will come from hardware, which is
forecast to increase at a CAGR of 19.5% from US$898.7 million in 2006 to
US$2,188.9 million by 2011. The other growth drivers include the packaged
software and service segments, which are forecast to increase at CAGRs of 21.2%
and 16.3%, respectively. The India government embarked on egovernance
initiatives and will keenly focus on some of the more immediate need-based
projects such as establishing statewide area networks, state datacenters,
common information centers; promoting eprocurement; building capacities;
computerizing land records and regional transport offices; and establishing
agriculture portals. Educational institutions in India with the support and
dedicated efforts of the Ministry of Human Resource (HR) Development are
looking to build their basic IT infrastructures up and develop networking with
various branches spread across the country. The major education IT market
segments include the PC, storage, networking equipment, software, and service
segments," says Arpan Gupta, analyst, Verticals Research, IDC India.
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