New Delhi: The country's software industry faces a “high” threat from terrorists, said Union Home Secretary G K on Wednesday.
"We are world leaders in software. But software industry is high on the threat list," said Pillai at a conference on 'Challenge of Terrorism to India's Infrastructure and Economy' in New Delhi.
Software companies in India have realised this fact and they were taking their own measures to protect themselves. "And the government is also in partnership with many of the companies making effort to provide adequate security (to foil any attempt by the terrorists to target them)," he said.
Indian software exports have risen from Rs 28,350 crore in 2000-01 to an estimated Rs 216,300 crore in 2008-09. The industry is expected to grow 16 per cent this fiscal and log revenues of USD 60 billion despite the global slowdown.
Pillai said India's western coastline hosting several petroleum and nuclear installations are vulnerable to terror strikes from the sea. "Petroleum and nuclear installations located on the western coast are highly vulnerable," he said.
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