“The growth of cities as I.T. hubs has opened up new avenues of employment, but has also created new problems.” Substantiate this statement with examples.

Significance of IT industries in promoting regional development:

(1) Setting up of industry at the first place opens up several avenues (2) It will lead to job creation both skilled and semiskilled (3) It will further lead to infrastructural development of the area (4) This will also prevent the

migration of peopler to other areas (5) prevent brain drain (6) This will lead to increase in per capita income of the population (7) This will also improve socio-economic indicator of the region as it will lead to availability of basic amenities like electricity, water, etc (8) Thus setting up of industries in any particular area will lead to its regional development