IT revolution in India

The Information technology (IT) revolution has brought about a sarcastic change in India. Huge malls, Funky eating joints, Sophisticated commercial complexes, villas, etc are some of the visible and wonderful attributes of IT revolution. Now days, IT has created social problems so deep that it has completely shaken our social structure. In this way, IT revolution is creating a social imbalance now. We can say that foreign trips and the western ways of living have actually divided our society in many different folds.

People who are intelligent and self motivated are either frustrate or utilize their energy and put their all effort and time to find the new software links and appraisals. Today, if someone aspires to be an artist, musician, or a teacher then he or she has to overcome with peer and social pressure to pursue their career of interest. Because of the big money and wide range of knowledge, IT career has become as much an aspiration of the society. IT does a remarkable job by taking away the best talent available for other industries.

At present, student community and mostly the fresh graduates are obsessed with IT jobs, particularly the engineering students. Irrespective of their streams, every engineering student wants to land in an IT job. In-fact, the big salary and fast growth is the pull-factor. Every industry is unique and has its own paying capacity. Because of the IT, all other industries are suffering and are finding it difficult to attract and retain the best talent.

It is a fact, that small companies cannot afford to pay as much as IT companies pays to a fresher. Some of the big names like Infosys, Wipro, and Tata Consultancy Services [TCS]. Companies need the best talent only during the formative years. But, on the other side youth of today are obsessed with the quick money and luxurious life. Well, the big starting salaries offered at IT companies are so attractive that everyone get attract so easily and conveniantly towards it.

Well, it is observed that IT revolution has certainly killed the reading habit among the youth of today and on other side, Libraries wear a deserted look nowadays. Reading books doesn’t bring out any interest in IT students. The pressure to perform and to get the desired IT job has created a panic among the graduate students that they hardly turn their attention towards reading for pleasure and for writing.

Information Technology (IT) revolution takes places everywhere. Organizations implementing IT are able to provide better services and therefore able to improve their businesses manifold. In earlier days IT has enormously been used in manufacturing sector regarding product designing and development, product modification etc.

Importance of IT

• IT in educational places

  The Government of India has come out with a statement stating that Information Technology (IT) is India's Tomorrow. Hence the educational institutions have to use IT for teaching the children so that they should be trained in this field also. Well, latest hardware and software can be used and the latest computer languages and packages have to be taught to the students. It is not enough if student of computer science alone has been taught about IT, but also the students of other disciplines have to be taught about IT.

• IT in hospitals

  The hospital management is taking place with the application of IT. Starting from the reception by recording a patient's name, the IT has been used everywhere in a hospital. A patient's record comprising his name, age, sex, disease found, blood group, height, weight, blood pressure level, etc. has been maintained as database in a computer in the hospital. So whenever the patient arrives his previous record can be verified easily. For billing purposes also the computers have been used widely in hospitals.

• IT in banking

  Consistent and tremendous improvement has taken place in the Indian banking sector because of the IT revolution. All the private and foreign banks have gone for 100 percent computerization. With the help of computerization, the transaction takes place at a faster rate and the waiting time of a customer in a queue is getting minimized. The banks provide the facility of internet banking, phone and mobile banking with the help of IT. All the branches of a bank are networked. The cost incurred on infrastructure, furniture and employees has got decreased because of the application of IT.

• IT in railways

  Well, the application of IT has provided various benefits for the Indian Railways and its passengers. With the issue of computerized railway tickets, the errors have been minimized and misusers can be find out easily. A passenger can book the train ticket from any part of the country. A passenger can also book the train ticket at his convenient place, because system of online reservation has been introduced.

• IT in medical shops

  Due to increase in competition, IT has also been applied in pharmaceutical shops. Whenever any medicine enters the shop, all the information related to the medicine like- its name, quantity, manufacturing date, expiry date, its content, price and other information can be entered into a computer system. Whenever the sales take place, computerized billing would be provided to the customers. Whenever any medicine has been sold the software created would also give indications to the manager/supervisor of a pharmaceutical shop related to the number of quantities sold, number of quantities available in the shop and the computer also warn them regarding the date of expiry.

• IT in research

  Marketing Research (MR) agencies involve in lot of research activities starting from research survey on product development till distribution and measurement of customer response. Manual analysis of data is not used now days. The MR agencies use sophisticated statistical software packages for data analysis and interpretation. Some of the statistical software packages are created by their own for customized problems. Therefore, application of IT tools take place in full swing at MR agencies.

• IT in share market

  It is assumed that gone are those days when stock brokers use to shout at the trading hall of a stock exchange for quoting their price. Now days with the help of computer terminal and internet connection, purchasing and selling of share takes place everywhere. A client can look at the transactions taking place through the computers. The volume of the shares traded and the turnover has got consistently improved because of the availability of online share trading.

• IT in Ad agency

  Creativity and modernity is the slogan which is seek in Ad Agencies. Creativity involves doing things differently. Things can be done differently with the help of IT. The Ad Agencies use lot of software for creating advertisements. Lot of animations and graphics can be done using IT tools.