India has become a land of software developers with the country accounting for the third largest number of such professionals, a senior Microsoft official has said. Driven by immense opportunities that the Indian government's digitisation programme has offered and the fact that it opens up a new vista of more than a billion plus market inside the country, there is a new level of enthusiasm and confidence among the Indian developers community, said Narendra Bhandari, GM Developer Group in India, Microsoft. "The impact of these policy initiatives like demonetisation and GST, which is being rolled out soon, on software developers is that people who are building these applications are now thinking, how do I build these applications for a billion people, not for the twenty million people living in Bangalore and Mumbai and Delhi," Bhandari told(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)

Source: dna May 12, 2017 15:45 UTC