Maharashtra announced its first Information Technology Policy in
1998, which was followed by the Information Technology and
Information Technology Enabled Services (IT/ITES)
Policy-2003 and IT/ITES Policy-2009, to give a boost to the growth
of Information Technology sector and thereby generate employment
and improve the quality of life. As a result of experiences gained
from the implementation of earlier IT/ITES Policies and due to the
rampant development in the field of IT/ITES, Maharashtra Government
formulated a new policy to boost the industrial sector in the state
- the IT/ITES Policy 20151 on
August 25, 2015 (IT/ITES Policy 2015).
The IT/ITES Policy 2015 aimed to make Maharashtra the economic
magnet of India and the most preferred investment destination of
the country. The said IT/ITES Policy 2015 aimed to accelerate
investment flow to industrially backward areas of the state, create
more and more employment opportunities, and achieve higher level of
expert
