Nasscom announces roadmap for FY 2009

New Delhi

April 15, 2008

Nasscom announced its roadmap for FY 2009 with key focus areas outlined.
Speaking about the roadmap for the year, Dr Ganesh Natarajan, Chairman, Nasscom
and Global CEO, Zensar Technologies said, “Nasscom has identified six
underlying themes for the year which will work as vectors for us to plan
initiatives and focused programs around. Today, the IT industry is well on its
way in making the transition to process quality and innovation, and we believe
these themes will help us in charting the way forward and maintaining a steady
growth curve for the industry.”

Elaborating on the themes, Dr Natarajan added, “We are looking at
creativity to enhance the existing opportunity to add new revenues over the next
five years through product, process and business model innovation. In addition
to community and collaboration, the new thrust areas we have identified-including
societal development, green IT and education and skill building-are all
extremely critical for sustaining the long term global leadership that this
industry aspires to achieve.”

Talking about the enhanced focus on BPO sector, Pramod Bhasin, Vice Chairman
Nasscom, and President and CEO, Genpact said, “At this interesting growth
curve and with the growing maturity of the industry, we now see the need for
increased collaboration of the IT and BPO sectors. We also plan to focus on
education and security, through various initiatives already underway since these
are very critical pillars for the realization of the industry's objectives.”

Som Mittal, President, Nasscom added that Nasscom has always been at the
forefront of leadership for the industry and taking the first step in adopting
and raising awareness about issues and initiatives that are critical to the
industry and the country. “Towards this objective Nasscom will be encouraging
environmental responsibility aided by the search for greater productivity and
competitiveness, reducing waste and increasing efficiency under the 'Green IT'
initiative, which is one of the six point agenda for Nasscom

Additionally, increased focus towards scaling and continuing initiatives
towards education and skill building, global trade development and synchronizing
Nasscom's education initiatives with government's skill mission are key
areas.”

He further added, “We are pleased to announce the appointment of Raju
Bhatnagar as VP, Nasscom. His domain expertise in the BPO sector will be of
great value to Nasscom and the industry. We are also looking to further scale
and continue the momentum on initiatives underway like NAC, NAC Tech and NSR.”

Six-point agenda

• Creativity: Tap the opportunity to add new revenues through product,
  process and business model innovation
• Community: Build communities of best practices that enable professionals
  to interact across organization and geography barriers
• Collaboration: Continue the collaboration between firms and with industry
  associations in key markets and collaboration countries
• Adoption of Green IT: Encourage environmental responsibility aided by the
  search for greater productivity and competitiveness, reducing waste and
  increasing efficiency
• Societal development and inclusivity: Strengthen rural India as a
  complementary force to Urban India's capabilities in the Industry. Gender
  inclusivity and inclusion of differently-abled workforce in the IT-BPO
  sectors
• Education and skill building: Continue to undertake focused efforts
  towards developing an employable workforce through scaling of various
  ongoing initiatives