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Govt. sets up IT advisory committee

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CIOL Bureau
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BANGALORE: The government has set up a 11- member committee with several leading names in the field of information technology (IT) to advise the ministry of IT Pramod Mahajan -who will head the committee, on issues related to cyber activities.

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Along with Mr Mahajan, P.V. Jayakrishnan secretary of the ministry of IT, N. R. Narayana Murthy of Infosys and Azim Premji of Wipro are members, according to officials. Other committee members are Subash Chandra of Zee and F.C. Kohli of Tata Consultancy Services, Ramalinga Raju of Satyam, Rajendra Pawar of NIIT, Rajeev Chandrashekhar of BPL Telecom, Prof V. Raju of IIT Delhi, Dewang Mehta of Nasscom and Satish Kaura of Samtel group.

The committee, will meet every two months, official sources said. Officials said the primary role of the commitee was to identify areas in IT such as build human resource expertise, foster research and development, invetsment prospects and generate employment opportunities to chart India`s progress in its efforts to become an IT super power.

Initially, the committee will advise the Government on the spread of IT and its applications such as e-commerce, e-governance and distance learning, the sources said. The first meeting will be held soon,they said, adding that the committee would be expanded in future to have more representatives of the industry.

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