Did you know that 36 percent of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) scientists are Indians This percentage tells us that ten out of more than three people are Indians and they account for almost little below 50 percent among NASA's scientists. Thus, India is becoming the IT power nation and the key to success comes from their way of educating their students. Taking an example from one middle school in Mumbai, one of the faculty members said, "The school's exams are all based on short answers where there are no multiple questions." The aim is to figure out the students' way of thinking rather than extracting simple, correct answers. Also, from early on, Indian students learn and become highly familiar with large numbers and thus preschool mathematical textbooks are very difficult.
Such educational background explains why 12 percent of American scientists and 36 percent of NASA scientists are dominated by Indians. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) is extremely competitive, in which only the top 10 percent IT students get accepted, not only from India, but around the world; IIT graduates receive calls from top IT industries after they graduate that makes IIT most proud. Many IT workers of Silicon Valley, the site of the traditional high-tech havens, are Indians.
India's IT industry grew solely upon software and IT related fields without the support of hardware and communication service; one of the noted IT industries is Tartar Consultancy, where the company raised US$6 billion this year from the United States and Europe. Tartar's public affairs director claims that India's IT companies offer new, innovative service to its' customers and are expanding their IT market globally. Moreover, India is fast emerging as one of the world's biggest, most intellectual and innovative IT industry- getting investments from a variety of global IT companies and expanding their global domain.
