There is a small community of Germans in India consisting largely of expatriate professionals from Germany and their families as well as international students at Indian universities.
In a 2007 news report, according to an executive of Locatech GmbH, an IT company, the availability of skill and the importance of intellectual property rights is well established in India at all levels – statutory, administrative and judicial.
Therefore, doing business in India in comparison to China is considered a safe bet by some Germans in small and medium scale industries which intend to go global.
[citation needed] They mainly work in the banking, information technology, automobile, leather trading, education and food production industries.
IIT Madras, a leading engineering and research institution located in Chennai, was established in 1959 with German assistance.