New Delhi, June 20: Research firm Gartner has said while there would be occasional backlash on outsourcing towards Indian IT companies, no long term damage was anticipated due to these "temporary anomalies". "Going forward, there will be occasional backlash... These are temporary anomalies and there will not be a long term damage," Bob Hayward, senior vice president, Gartner Apac told reporters here.

He said India's domestic information and communication technologies (ICT) market would be the "fastest growing" in the world.
"The growth rate this year will be better than last year...The domestic ICT market will be the fastest growing in the world, even faster than china," he said but added that while India would sport larger growth rate on smaller base, bigger markets like china were growing on a larger base.

The Indian domestic market would grow in the backdrop of demand coming from infrastructure spending in terms of hardware and networking.
He, however, did not comment on quantum of growth for the Indian IT industry. Bureau Report