NSW: India s software association found dead in hotel = 3

AAP General News (Australia)
04-13-2001
NSW: India s software association found dead in hotel = 3

During its visit, the Indian delegation, which also included representatives from about
20 Indian IT companies, met with federal Minister for Communications and Information Technology,
Richard Alston, and Australian industry counterparts.

Yesterday, Mr Mehta signed a memorandum of understanding with his Australian counterpart,
Rob Durie, the executive director of the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA).

The agreement was designed to cover further understanding and cooperation between Australia
and India in areas including the software industry, IT services, internet and e-commerce.

Mr Durie said Mr Mehta had worked extremely hard to further the cause of India's IT industry.

"Dewang was an energetic, enthusiastic person and has been working very hard for the
Indian software association (NASSCOM) for the last seven to eight years," Mr Durie told
AAP.

"His organisation had 800 to 900 member software companies. India has the most successful
software industry outside of the US."

Mr Durie said Mr Mehta had appeared to be in fine health yesterday (Wednesday) during
a meeting between their respective associations.

He said he had left to catch a flight to Canberra in the middle of a speech by Mr Mehta
and that had been the last he saw of his counterpart.

"I said to him long before I left that I planned to meet him again at a meeting of
Asian IT industry associations in Myanmar (Burma) in early May," he said.

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