Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote, [on 5/20/2008 2:43 AM]:
IT is a nice example of how the absence of government interference is good. indian IT's best growth happened while there was no ministry of IT, at which point in time electricity, telecommunications, broadcasting etc (which all had ministries) were barely growing.
To be fair, the rise of the IT industry in Bangalore, at least, can be quite clearly traced back to the (quite intentional, AFAICT) establishment of various 'hi-tech' public sector organizations here: ISRO, BEL, NAL, DRDO etc. (for non-Indians: the Indian Space Research Organization, Bharat Electronics Limited, National Aeronautics Lab, Defense Research and Development Organization.)
Oh, and the Indian Institute of Science (though this wasn't a 100% governmental effort.)
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