Mr Bikram Dasgupta, Chairman & CEO, Globsyn Group

Welcoming the budget announcements made by the Finance Minister for the education sector, Mr Bikram Dasgupta, Chairman and CEO, Globsyn Group has said that the budget has been balanced and has opened doors for education and made sufficient efforts for bringing in much needed reforms in the society.

Increasing over all budget allocation for higher education is indeed a welcome move and clubbed with tax benefit under Section 80E for education loan will also further give a boost to the sector and bring education closer to many deserving youngsters,” Mr Bikram Dasgupta, Chairman & CEO, Globsyn Group said.

“Move to set up central university in each state and redefining the investment for higher education by setting up of more IIT’s and IIM’s are indeed steps in the right direction,” he added.

On the Information Technology sector Mr Bikram Dasgupta said, “Extension to the STPI scheme is welcome as also defining the software product as a service. However much is left for the SME sector of Software Industry to give it a further fillip in order to march the growing requirements of the economy.”