NIIT, Asia’s largest IT trainer has been conferred upon the ‘No. 1 IT Training Company Award 2006’ from country’s leading IT publication group Cybermedia, the publisher’s of Dataquest.

In its annual IT industry survey, leading IT magazine, Dataquest, reports that NIIT has further strengthened its leadership position in the Indian IT training industry and is now nearly 1.5 times bigger than the combined revenues of the next 4 players put together and has widened the winning gap by becoming 3.72 times the size of the No. 2 player.

Mr. Ashish Basu, President of NIIT’s Knowledge Solutions Business received the trophy on behalf of NIIT, from Mr. Pradeep Gupta, Chairman and Managing Director of Cybermedia Group, at the awards function held in the Capital, recently.

Indian IT industry at Rs. 164,652 crore in 05-06

Dataquest reports that the Indian IT industry logged in total IT revenues of Rs 164,652 crore in the year ended March 31, 2006 recording a growth of 33 per cent. (However, based on dollar denominated revenues, the growth was placed at 31 per cent). The industry showed a remarkable growth across all segments. The IT Services and BPO industry exports grew 33 per cent to record revenues of Rs 87,951 crore. The domestic IT industry went up 28 per cent to report revenues of Rs 56141 crore.

Contd on page 2...