NEED FOR MATCHING INDIA’S CAPACITIES IN THE FIELD OF HUMAN RESOURCES AND IT SOFTWARE SKILLS WITH JAPAN’S STRENGTH IN TECHNOLOGY AND MANUFACTURING.

In the area of Telecom, IT and Electronics, the two countries have complementary strengths.  Whereas, Japan has the technology and is excellent in hardware side, India offers market and has great strengths in the area of software development. Together India and Japan can develop Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for the world market. Japan is a major manufacturing powerhouse, manufacturing about $1 trillion of goods, which constitutes about 20% of its $5 trillion GDP. On the other hand, India is a land of opportunities with a potential of providing 600 million broadband connections in next 5-6 years, which will entail an investment of tens of billions dollar. Considering these factors, India becomes a natural partner for Japan to execute joint projects for manufacturing of electronic and telecom goods and equipment here in India.

Realizing their complementary strengths, two countries are exploring the possibility of having joint projects in the following areas and other matters of mutual cooperation in the field of ICT including -

•        Green ICT
•        ICT for disaster management
•        Cyber and network security
•     ICT applications for Social and Economic challenges leveraging National ID scheme being implemented in India.

The Minister for Communication and Information Technology, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that there is a need for matching India’s capacities in the field of human resources and IT software skills with Japan’s strength in technology and manufacturing.  Inaugurating India -Japan Joint Working Group meeting for strengthening cooperation in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), he said, the two countries had shared civilization moorings and cultural heritage. They are expected to be natural partners for technical and industrial cooperation in the years to come. The minister detailing the scope for partnership said that the current government in India plans to connect all panchayats with broadband by 2016, as a part of its ‘Digital India’ programme and also wants to give a big push to electronic manufacturing. He invited Japanese companies to set up manufacturing facilities in India as a part of another prime programme of the present government called- ‘Make in India’.

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