New Delhi, April 23 -- India's software localisation norms for government procurement need urgent rationalisation, according to Victoria Espinel, CEO of Business Software Alliance (BSA), a global policy advocacy group.

She urged policymakers to simplify and clarify the requirements to enable global companies to better navigate the bidding process for government contracts.

Espinel pointed out that although many global software companies operate large development centres in India, they often struggle to quantify how much of their software is "Made in India."

The challenge lies in the absence of clear standards to measure domestic value addition in software-unlike physical goods, where components and materials can be more easily tracked....