History Of IT Sector In India Before 1991

In 1965, immigration laws in USA were modified and the restrictions on immigrants were reduced considerably. As a result a lot of Indian professionals migrated for research opportunities in USA. The IT revolution in USA and the much fancied Silicon Valley in the US during the 80s and 90s could not have been possible without the work of these migrated Indians. What this migration did for the Indian IT industry was creating innumerable opportunities in the USA in the IT sector. Due to the fast growing IT sector in USA, there was a need for IT professionals outside USA. India had a huge number of educated people and the education in India being in English, there was a large population of English speaking technically strong people in India. Hence outsourcing of work started gaining momentum and this led to the huge boom in the IT sector in India, whose most of the work is exporting software and software services to the US and other overseas clients.