Union IT and Communications Minister Arun Shourie on Monday met IT industry leaders including Wipro Chairman Azim Premji in Bangalore and discussed the steps that need to be taken to propel the industry ahead.
The meet, held at the Wipro campus in electronics city on the city outskirts, had top honchos of IT firms giving suggestions to government to chart an action plan for the industry including efforts to boost the hardware sector in the country.
"The industry leaders have given some suggestions which we will take up," Shourie said.
According to sources, besides Premji, Infosys Director T V Mohandas Pai and Karnataka IT and BT secretary Vivek Kulkarni attended the closed-door deliberations.