Illustrative list of thrust areas for submission of proposals for financial support from DIT is as follows:-
- IT Education and IT based education, technologies, systems and applications
- Strategic & professional electronics systems and applications
- Broadband technologies
- Electronic governance
- ICT for enabling digital unite and e-rural technologies & applications
- Emerging mobile and fixed wireless technologies
- Remote sensing and GIS based Decision Support Systems
- Microelectronics and Photonics
- Electronics/IT applications and R&D for hardware manufacturing of equipment/systems
- E-commerce
- Smart cards, RFID based systems
- Bio-informatics
- Convergence and multimedia technologies
- Raw materials, components and subsystems for electronics, communications & IT
- Manufacturing systems & processes
- Networking technologies
- Advanced computing/high performance computing techniques, systems and applications
- Quality improvement in electronics & IT area
- Internet and enabling technologies
- ICT for health, disaster management and disadvantaged persons
- Technology deployment for promoting use of Indian Languages
- Emerging technologies / applications in electronics, ICT and related fields
- Enhancing exports, enhancing competitiveness of electronics & IT industry, including skilled manpower development
