Ten years ago, India was seen as a source of inexpensive programmers. Today India offers a combination of low cost and high quality personnel. So far, 41 companies have received the ISO 9000 certification, and about 70 more companies are in the pipeline. This will give India the highest number of ISO 9000 companies in the world for the software sector.

India's software industry is estimated to be worth about USD 1.2 billion, compared to only USD 10 million ten years ago. Nevertheless, the growth has been limited to only a few cities. The industry is mainly concentrated around Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi, Noida and international giants like HCL ,Cadance, HCL Parrot is already present in Noida.

Information technology is among the fastest growing industries in India, and employs more than 125,000 people. High quality and low cost manpower give the Indian software industry an advantage in the world market. The fact that India constitutes the second largest English speaking manpower resource in the world, is making the country even more competitive.

In India there are 1,670 institutions which offer a computer education, and these institutions train more than 41,000 people annually. The No. of Reputed institution like ER&DCI, IEC Engineering & Information technology College are working in Noida.