3.3.7. Electronic Industry

The electronics industry has developed mainly after independence. It covers a wide range of products including transistor sets, televisions, telephone exchanges, telecommunication, computers and various equipments for posts and telegraph, defence, railway and meteorological departments. The setting up of the Indian Telephone Industry (ITI) in 1950 at Bangalore gave a boost to this industry. The software has emerged as a major industry in the field of electronics. The computer industry made a modest beginning in the: mid 1970s. Now it has achieved a major breakthrough. The main reason for its rapid growth is a big bank of technically competent manpower. Bangalore is the largest centre of: electronics goods production and is rightly called the 'Electronic Capital of India’.