Indian IT industry pioneer FC Kohli dies at the age of 96

Faqir Chand Kohli, who sowed the seeds of the USD 190-billion IT industry, has passed away on Thursday. He was 96.

The sector’s largest company TCS, of which he was the founding chief executive, announced the death of Kohli and said it was the insistence of JRD Tata which got Kohli to join the Tata Group, which now counts on its infotech arm for a bulk of resources.

Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran termed Kohli as a “true legend” who laid the foundation of what has been a “spectacular IT revolution” and set the stage for a dynamic modern economy that we enjoy today.