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2. Foreign Direct Investment brought in new technologyand aligned the industry with global
developments.
 At present, there are 15 manufacturers of passengercars and multi-utility vehicles, 9 of
commercial vehicles,14 of the two and three-wheelers.
 The industry is located around Delhi, Gurgaon, Mumbai,Pune, Chennai, Kolkata,
Lucknow, Indore, Hyderabad,Jamshedpur and Bangalore.

 Information Technology and Electronics Industry

 The electronics industry covers a wide range of products from transistor sets to
television, telephones, cellular telecom, pagers, telephone exchange, radars, computers
and many other equipments required by the telecommunication industry.

 Bangalore has emerged as the electronic capital ofIndia. Other important centres for
electronic goods areMumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Pune, Chennai, Kolkata,Lucknow and
Coimbatore.
 18 software technology parks provide single window service and high data
communication facility to
software experts.

Impacts of IT industry

 A major impact of IT industry has been on employment generation. Upto 31 March 2005,
the IT industry employed over one million persons. This number is expected to increase
eight-fold in the next 3 to 4 years. It is encouraging to know that 30 per cent of the
people employed in this sector women.
 This industry has been a major foreign exchange earnerin the last two or three years
because of its fast growingBusiness Processes Outsourcing (BPO) sector.