15 biggest IT companies in India

The fiscal year 2011-12 was one of the toughest for the Indian IT, says Dataquest magazine's annual survey of Indian IT sector. And unlike 2008-09, this time it was the domestic market which played the spoilsport. 

The sentiment in the Indian market was at its lowest ebb. The global uncertainty only compounded matters for the IT industry. However, despite sluggishness, Indian IT's exports have grown from 14% in FY10 to 22% in FY11 and almost 29% this fiscal. According to the survey, which ranks the biggest 200 IT companies in the country in terms of revenue, the growth is testimony to Indian IT's resilience. 

Here are top 15 IT companies in India as per the survey.

1) TCS

Growth (2010-11): 25%

Growth (2011-12): 32%

The year 2011-12 saw TCS emerge as India's first IT company to cross the ten-billion dollar milestone posting annual revenues of $10.17 billion. 

According to the Dataquest survey, the company's revenue growth in BFSI (27.44%), retail and CPG (45.05%) and manufacturing (38.11%) were major contributors. Other verticals that include Life Sciences and Healthcare (33.10%), Hi-Tech (57.32%), Travel, Transport and Hospitality (42.85%) grew at an average of 37.3%. Practice areas like enterprise infrastructure services, enterprise solutions, BPO units cross $1 billion in revenues. 

Another highlight of the year was the consolidated gross addition of 70,400 employees and net addition of 39,969 employees, which is highest ever in TCS' history, according to the writeup. TCS has over 238,500 resources spread over 42 countries.


2) Infosys

Growth (2010-11): 22%

Growth (2011-12): 20%

Infosys' nearly two-third of the revenues came from delivering operational efficiency projects and a fourth from business transformational projects, according to Dataquest survey. The company had good success with its core banking software Finacle. Finacle now has 154 customers across 75 countries.

Infosys recently also introduced an application for mobile operators Flypp.


3) Wipro

Growth (2010-11): 13%

Growth (2011-12): 18%

In the year 2011-12, Wipro's revenue productivity both in offshore and onsite went up. The company recieved nearly 46% of the revenue from fixed-price projects.

Energy and utilities grew 57% due to acquisitions, BFSI grew 13% and retail and transportation grew 11%. The company witnessed double-digit growth across all services except BPO. Wipro added 173 new customers during the year, compared to 155 in the previous year.


4) Cognizant Technology Solutions

Growth (2010-11): 37%

Growth (2011-12): 36%

The tag of an American company with 75% workforce in India has given Cognizant good brand equity in last few years in the US and Europe, writes Dataquest. The company added over 250 clients during the FY11-12. As of March 31, 2012, Cognizant's total number of active customers stood at 805 and the number of strategic clients at 196.


5) HP India

Growth (2010-11): 30%

Growth (2011-12): 7%

HP India saw its services business grow more than its products. While the company's networking, storage, and servers (x86) showed good traction, software business remained flat, according to Dataquest. 

Some of the big deals like Symphony Services, Tata Motors, Thinksoft, 3i Infotech, Bank of Baroda and Bank of India helped the company. 

In Q4 of FY12, HP merged its PC and print divisions into one entity —PPS -- for cost management and profits. Another organizational restructuring saw HP create Global Accounts Sales Organisation.


6) HCL Technologies

Growth (2010-11): 29%

Growth (2011-12): 31%

HCL Technologies, which follows July 11 to June 12 financial year cycle registered a topline growth of 31% during the year. 

According to Dataquest, HCL Tech crossed $4 billion in revenue and saw its net income grow 47.8% (in INR terms). The company bagged 52 transformational deals and continued to spread its wings in Europe. It won a major deal from Fortune 500 company to provide services in 16 European countries.


7) IBM India

Growth (2010-11): 14%

Growth (2011-12): 9%

IBM's agressive strategy outside US has been reaping dividends for the company for a while. In calender year 2010-11, BRIC growth was at 18.6% while America's revenues increased only by 8%, according to Dataquest survey. The headcount too is reported to have grown in tandem, IBM's headcount in India during FY11-12 is estimated to be around 135,000. 

Global Technology Services (GTS) was one of the biggest revenue earners. The division posted 18.2% growth in infrastructure services and bagged some short-term as well as strategic multi-year contracts. Among verticals, BFSI performed well. On the systems side, IBM emerged as no. 1 in non-x-86 Unix servers and external storage systems.


8) Redington India

Growth (2010-11): 32%

Growth (2011-12): 18%

Technology areas like virtualization, storage, and security helped Redington's enterprise IT infrastructure business during the year 2011-12, according to Dataquest. According to the survey, the long decision-making time that large projects faced during FY11-12 troubled distributors like Redington.

The revitalization of HP's consumer notebook's portfolio and the company's revamped GTM strategy got good dividends for Redington India. Portfolio additions during the year included VMware, Hitachi Enterprise Storage Portfolio, Smart Technologies, Polycom and Microsoft's cloud offerings.


9) HCL Infosystems

Growth (2010-11): 2%

Growth (2011-12): -11%

The FY11-12 saw HCL Infosystem's topline drop by 11%, seemingly making the company go for strategic realignment. The company recently bagged a Rs 2,200 crore UIDAI project. It also got new clients in healthcare including Narayana Hrudayalaya. Education was another area where it bagged new contracts.


10) Ingram Micro

Growth (2010-11): 35%

Growth (2011-12): 8%

Another distributor in top 15, Ingram Micro added three new product lines during the year. According to Dataquest, Western Digital appointed the company as national distributor and RIM tied up to offer BlackBerry Mobility solutions to large corporates and SMBs. 

The company has also been appointed as distributor partner by Zoho to resell its entire range of products.


11) Oracle India

Growth (2010-11): 26%

Growth (2011-12): 16%

Oracle India added nearly 3,500 people to its headcount, according to Dataquest. With Middleware market lacklustre, the company's fourth business unit Fusion Middleware did not see a major turnaround. 

Oracle India, however, saw good growth in the RDBMS market clinching as much as 62% market share in India, leaving IBM and Microsoft behind. The company also successfully fended off stiff competition from IBM and HP in its mid-range SPARC T4 servers business.


12) Cisco Systems India

Growth (2010-11): 35%

Growth: (2011-12): 9%

Cisco Systems India witnessed growth in the commercial markets of tier-2 and tier-3 cities during the FY year 11-12, according to Dataquest. According to the writeup, BFSI and ITS segments continued to accelerate; data centre and virtualization saw good traction. 

The company also increased its partner presence from 1,200 to more than 2,500. Another highlight of the year was the national partnership it signed with HCL Infosystems for Cisco WebEx. Some big customer wins during the year included Essar Group, Gujrat Telelinks, Fastway, UBI, Mantri Developers etc.


13) Dell India

Growth (2010-11): 34%

Growth (2011-12): 13%

The FY 11-12 saw Dell invest its energies on growing its services business. According to Dataquest, the company signed several new customers across verticals. Dell also launched 12th-generation blade and rack and PowerEdge servers. On the server side in Q4 CY11, Dell took the leadership position by factory revenues.


14) SAP India

Growth (2010-11): 31%

Growth (2011-12): 33%

SAP India's growth this year was the best among all geographies, according to Dataquest. The company got good revenues from new licenses. According to the Dataquest survey, SAP was able to leverage its applications suite which includes ERP, CRM, BI and SCM. 

The company witnessed near triple-digit growth in the new license revenue with major contributions coming in from public sector, oil & machinery and utilities. SAP India's customer base reportedly grew to 4,900 names in FY12 and headcount rose to 5,555 with direct presence in eight Indian cities.


15) Intel India

Growth (2010-11): 18%

Growth (2011-12): 5%

Intel had a tough time in sustaining its growth due to domestic and international factors like inflation, slow demand for PCs (mainly assembled) and slump in the global market, according to Dataquest. The uncertainty in enterprise demand hurt the company dearly.

With about 6,000 active channel partners, it expanded its reach to over 700 cities.

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gate 2013 notification and important dates for exam

gate 2013 notification and important dates for exam

Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) is an all India examination that primarily tests the comprehensive understanding of various undergraduate subjects in Engineering and Technology. The GATE score of a candidate reflects a relative performance of a candidate. The score is used for admissions to post-graduate engineering programmes (eg. M.E., M.Tech, direct Ph.D.) in Indian higher education institutes with financial assistance provided by MHRD and other Government agencies. The score may also used by Public sector units for employment screening purposes.

Note : Validity of GATE 2013 score will be for a period of TWO YEARS from the date of announcement of results.

What’s New in GATE 2013?
1. 15 subject papers will be conducted by an ONLINE computer based test: AE, AG, AR, BT, CE, CH, CY, GG, MA, MN, MT, PH, TF, XE, and XL.
2. Offline papers: CS, EC, EE, IN , ME, and PI
3. Female candidates are exempted from paying the application fee.
4. All candidate related information and grievance redressal will be available in a single GATE Online Applicant Interface.
5. Soft copies of photograph and signature must be uploaded during online application (This is in addition to sending recent photograph of applicant with signed application).
6. A new formula will be used for calculating the GATE score.
7. Biometric information (Photograph and fingerprint) maybe captured on the day of the examination for randomly selected candidates.

Dates of Examination
Online: 20th January 2013 (Sunday)
Offline: 10th February 2013 (Sunday)

Eligibility
The following categories of candidates are eligible to appear in GATE:

• Bachelor’s degree holders in Engineering/ Technology/ Architecture (4 years after 10+2/ Post-B.Sc./ Post-Diploma) and those who are in the final year of such programs.
• Master’s degree holders in any branch of Science/ Mathematics/ Statistics/ Computer Applications or equivalent and those who are in the final year of such programs.
• Candidates in the second or higher year of Four-year Integrated Master’s degree programs (Post-B.Sc.) in Engineering /Technology.
• Candidates in the fourth or higher year of Five-year Integrated Master’s degree programs or Dual Degree programs in Engineering/Technology.
• Candidates with qualifications obtained through examinations conducted by professional societies recognized by UPSC/AICTE (e.g. AMIE by IE(I), AMICE(I) by the Institute of Civil Engineers (India)-ICE(I)) as equivalent to B.E./B.Tech. Those who have completed section A or equivalent of such professional courses are also eligible.

Application Fee
The application fee is Rs. 1200 for General/OBC male applicants and Rs. 600 for SC/ST/PD male applicants. There is no application fee for female applicants.
Note : The application fee is not refundable.

Important Dates :

GATE Online Applicant Interface (website) Opens	Saturday	1 September 2012 (00:00 Hrs)
Last date for Submission of Online Application (website closure)	Sunday	30 September 2012 (23:00 Hrs)
Last date for the receipt of printed version of ONLINE Application at the respective zonal GATE Office	Monday	8 October 2012
Last date for request of change of city	Tuesday	20 November 2012
Availability of admit card on Online Application Interface	Wednesday	5 December, 2012
GATE 2013 Online Examination for Papers: AR, CE, GG, MA, MT, PH and TF*	Sunday	20 January 2013 (09:00 Hrs to 12:00 Hrs)
GATE 2013 Online Examination Papers: AE, AG, BT, CH, CY, MN, XE and XL*	Sunday	20 January 2013 (14:00 Hrs to 17:00 Hrs)
GATE 2013 Offline Examination Papers: CS, ME and PI*	Sunday	10 February 2013 (09:00 Hrs to 12:00 Hrs)
GATE 2013 Offline Examination Papers: EC, EE and IN*	Sunday	10 February 2013 (14:00 Hrs to 17:00 Hrs)
Announcement of results on Online Applicant Interface	Friday	15 March 2013 (10:00 Hrs)

How To Apply :
Application must be done ONLIN E. Further details and ONLIN E application form can be obtained by accessing any of the websites given below

Institute	Web address
IISc Bangalore	gate.iisc.ernet.in
IIT Bombay	www.gate.iitb.ac.in
IIT Delhi	gate.iitd.ac.in
IIT Guwahati	www.iitg.ernet.in/gate
IIT Kanpur	gate.iitk.ac.in
IIT Kharagpur	gate.iitkgp.ac.in
IIT Madras	gate.iitm.ac.in
IIT Roorkee	www.iitr.ernet.in/gate

GATE Score:

From 2013, the GATE score will be computed by a new formula.

This formula is different from the one used earlier. After the declaration of the results, a GATE Scorecard will be issued to all the candidates of a paper whose marks are equal to or above the qualifying marks of SC/ST/PD candidates in that paper. There is no provision for the issue of Additional GATE scorecard.

The GATE 2013 Committee with the NCB’s approval has the authority to decide the qualifying mark for each GATE paper. In case any claim or dispute arises in respect of GATE 2013, it is hereby made absolutely clear that the Courts and Tribunals in Mumbai and Mumbai alone shall have the exclusive jurisdiction to entertain and settle any such dispute or claim.

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IAS Exam Written Test Pattern

Paper-I	One of the Indian Languages to be selected by the candidate from the 18 languages included in the VIIIth Schedule to the Constitution (Qualifying Paper)	300 Marks
Paper-II	English (Qualifying Paper)	300 Marks
Paper-III	Essay	200 Marks
Papers IV & V	General Studies (300 Marks for each paper)	600 Marks
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Papers VI, VII, VIII & IX	Any two subjects (each having 2 papers) to be selected from the prescribed optional subjects (300 marks for each paper)	1200 Marks
Total Marks for Written Examination		2000 Marks
Interview Test		300 Marks
Grand Total		2300 Marks

List of Optional Subjects - IAS (Main)

- (Total 25)

Agriculture	Management
Animal Husbandry & Vetinary Science	Mathematics
Anthropology	Mechanical Engineering
Botany	Medical Science
Chemistry	Philosophy
Civil Engineering	Physics
Commerce & Accountancy	Political Science & International Relations
Economics	Psychology
Geography	Sociology
Geology	Statistics
Indian History	Zoology

INDIAN CIVIL SERVICES : SCHEME OF EXAMINATION

The Civil Services Examination is conducted by UPSC (Union Public Service Commission) every year.
The examination has three stages i.e.,
(1) Civil Services Preliminary Examinations (CSP) - normally conducted during the second half of May.
(2) Civil Services (Main) Examinations conducted during the month of October/November. Here, those who are selected in the preliminary examination only are eligible to appear.
(3) Those who are selected in the main examination will be eligible to appear before the Interview Board at New Delhi.

Preliminary Examination (CSP)

CSP consists of two papers Which is common for all candidates from 2011 i.e., No optional paper is there in CSP form 2011.This is the first stage of Civil Services Examination. This is an Objective type examination consisting of Two Papers that is common to all candidates from 2011 having special emphasis on testing their “aptitude for civil services” as well as on “ethical and moral dimension of decision making”. Normally, there are about 3 lakh applications for the preliminary examination. From this, the UPSC selects 10 to 12 folds of vacancies for the main examinations. This is only for the selection and not to be taken into consideration in the main ranking.

Subjects for Preliminary Examination:

• As per the decision of Government of India, there shall be change in the syllabus and pattern of the Preliminary Examination from 2011 in the scheme of the Civil Services Examination.

• The Preliminary Examination shall now comprise of two compulsory Papers of 200 marks each and of two hours duration each. Detailed below is the new syllabus and pattern of the Preliminary Examination, which is brought to the notice of the prospective candidates intending to appear at the Civil Services Examination (CSE) in 2011 onwards:

Paper I - (200 marks) Duration: Two hours

• Current events of national and international importance

• History of India and Indian National Movement

• Indian and World Geography - Physical, Social, Economic geography

of India and the World.

• Indian Polity and Governance – Constitution, Political System,

Panchayati Raj, Public Policy, Rights Issues, etc.

• Economic and Social Development – Sustainable Development,

Poverty, Inclusion, Demographics, Social Sector Initiatives, etc.

• General issues on Environmental ecology, Bio-diversity and Climate

Change - that do not require subject specialization

• General Science.

Paper II- (200 marks) Duration: Two hours

• Comprehension

• Interpersonal skills including communication skills;

• Logical reasoning and analytical ability

• Decision making and problem solving

• General mental ability

• Basic numeracy (numbers and their relations, orders of magnitude

etc.) (Class X level), Data interpretation (charts, graphs, tables, data

sufficiency etc. -Class X level)

• English Language Comprehension skills (Class X level).

• Questions relating to English Language Comprehension skills of Class X level

(last item in the Syllabus of Paper-II) will be tested through passages from

English language only without providing Hindi translation thereof in the question

paper.

• The questions will be of multiple choice, objective type.

Main Examination

NOTE:The prospective candidates are advised to note that no changes are being introduced at this stage in the Civil Services (Main) Examination and Personality Test in the scheme of Civil Services Examination (CSE) for 2011 Onwards.

Only those who are declared by the Commission to have qualified in the Preliminary Examination in a year, are eligible for the Main examination of that year, provided they are otherwise eligible for the Main Examination.

Civil Services Main examination has two optional subjects (two papers each carries 300 marks), one General Studies (two papers each carries 300 marks), one essay (carries 200 marks) - total 2000 marks. Other than this, there are two language papers one in Indian language and one in General English at the level of 10th standard. This is to test the ability of the candidate's proficiency in his mother tongue / Indian language and English. Total nine papers. These two papers carry 300 marks each but it will not be considered for the ranking. It is must to clear these two papers. If a candidate fails to clear these papers, his other papers will not be evaluated.

The Main Examination is intended to assess the overall intellectual traits and the depth of understanding of the candidates, rather than merely the range of their information and memory. Sufficient choice of questions is allowed in the question papers.

Optional Subjects for the Main Examination:

Optional subjects: Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science, Botany, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Commerce and Accountancy, Economics, Electrical Engineering, Geography, Geology, History, Law, Management, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Medical Science, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science and International Relations, Psychology, Public Administration, Sociology, Statistics, Zoology. Each paper is of 3 hours duration.

Literatures:

Arabic, Assamese, Bengali, Chinese, English, French, German, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Marathi, Malayalam, Manipuri, Nepali, Oriya, Pali, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu.

The following combinations not allowed are:

Political Science & International Relations and Public Administration
Commerce and Management
Anthropology and Sociology
Maths and Statistics
Agriculture and Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science
Management and Public Administration
Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science and Medical Science
Any two branches of engineering.
Combination of two literatures in the above list.

Interview:

At interview stage, two-fold vacancies are called to appear before the UPSC Board. Interview carries 300 marks. Interview calls are sent on the basis of minimum marks fixed by the UPSC at its discretion. The overall ranking is done based on the Mains performance (i.e., 2000 marks) and interview. Therefore, the total marks involved in the ranking are 2300. Candidates are allotted various services keeping in view their ranks in the examination and preferences given by them in their main application form.

Note:

If a person fails in either in mains or interview, he has to appear once again from the preliminary stage. 

Eligibility Conditions:

(i) Nationality:

(1) For the Indian Administrative Service and the Indian Police Service, a candidate must be a citizen of India.
(2) For other services, a candidate must be either: 
(a) A citizen of India, or
(b) a subject of Nepal, or
(c) a subject of Bhutan, or
(d) a Tibetan refugee who came over to India before 1st January, 1962 with the intention of permanently settling in India. or 
(e) a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Srilanka, East African countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia and Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India.
Provided that a candidate belonging to categories (b), (c), (d) and (e) shall be a person in whose favour a certificate of eligibility has been issued by the Government of India.
Provided further that candidates belonging to categories (b), (c) and (d) above will not be eligible for appointment to the Indian Foreign Service.
A candidate, in whose case a certificate of eligibility is necessary, may be admitted to the examination but the offer of appointment may be given only after the necessary eligibility certificate has been issued to him by the Government of India.

(ii) Minimum Educational Qualifications:

The candidate must hold a degree of any of Universities incorporated by an Act of the Central or State Legislature in India or other educational institutions established by an Act of Parliament or declared to be deemed as a University Under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956, or possess an equivalent qualification.

Note I:

Candidates who have appeared at an examination the passing of which would render them educationally qualified for the Commission's examination but have not been informed of the results as also the candidates who intend to appear at such a qualifying examination will also be eligible for admission to the Preliminary Examination. All candidates who are declared qualified by the Commission for taking the Civil Services (Main) Examination will be required to produce proof of passing the requisite examination with their application for the Main Examination failing which such candidates will not be admitted to the Main Examination.

Note II:

In exceptional cases the Union Public Service Commission may treat a candidate who has not any of the foregoing qualifications as a qualified candidate provided that he has passed examination conducted by the other Institutions, the standard of which in the opinion of the Commission justifies his admission to the examination.

Note III:

Candidates possessing professional and technical qualifications, which are recognised by Government, as equivalent to professional and technical degree would also be eligible for admission to the examination.

Note IV:

Candidates who have passed the final professional M.B.B.S. or any other Medical Examination but have not completed their internship by the time of submission of their applications for the Civil Services (Main) Examination, will be provisionally admitted to the Examination provided they submit along with their application a copy of certificate from the concerned authority of the University/Institution that they had passed the requisite final professional medical examination. In such cases, the candidates will be required to produce at the time of their interview original Degree or a certificate from the concerned competent authority of the University/Institution that they had completed all requirements (including completion of internship) for the award of the Degree.

(iii) Age limit:

21 years must be completed on 1st August of the year, which a candidate is appearing. Maximum 30 for general category, 33 for OBCs and 35 for SCs/STs. Ex-servicemen will get 5 more years exemption from the prescribed age limit.

(The date of birth accepted by the Commission is that entered in the Matriculation or Secondary School Leaving Certificate or in a certificate recognised by an Indian University as equivalent to Matriculation or in an extract from a Register of Matriculates maintained by a University, which extract must be certified by the proper authority of the University or in the Higher Secondary or an equivalent examination certificate).

(iv) Number of Attempts:

Four attempts for open, seven for OBCs and no limit for SCs/STs. If a person appears in the Preliminary Examination or even one paper is counted as an attempt.

(v) Restrictions on applying for the examination:

A candidate who is appointed to the Indian Administrative Service or the Indian Foreign Service on the results of an earlier examination and continues to be a member of that service will not be eligible to compete at this examination.

How to Apply:

(a) The UPSC have developed an application form common for all their examinations, which will be processed on computerised machines. This application form alongwith an Information Brochure containing general instructions for filling up the form, an acknowledgement card and an envelope for sending the application is obtainable from the designated Head Post Offices/Post Offices throughout the country as against cash payment of Rs. 20/- (Rupees twenty only). Form should be purchased from the designated Post Offices only and not from any other agency. This form can be used only once and for only one examination. Candidates must use the form supplied with the Information Brochure only and they should in no case use photocopy / reproduction / unauthorisedly printed copy of the Form. Since this form is electronically scannable, due care should be taken to fill up the application form, correctly. While filling up the application form, please refer to detailed instructions given in the Notice

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