IT industry for a budget that helps in job-creation

At a broad level,investment into job-creation and infrastructure and making sure that there is a time-table in the implementation of policies such as GST so that uncertainties are removed are important,he said.

The IT sector also expects the Government to rationalise the tax regime and extending the STP scheme to the medium-and-small-size entrepreneurs,he said.

At the industry-specific level,supporting medium-and-small-size enterprises by extending the STP scheme to them up to Rs 100-crore could be considered,he said.

The Government should also relook at some issues such as service tax refunds the industry gets.

8220;Why should there have to be a refund,why don8217;t they eliminate them completely8230;these are the simplifications the Government can make to help the industry,8221; he said.