The number of consultancy organisations and consultants in India is now well over 6000 with annual turnover of Rs. 1500 crores which include consultancy exports as well.

Over 100,000 specialists are employed, including nearly 10,000 management consultants.

The wide spectrum of disciplines and services provided by Indian consultants range from project identification to commissioning, involving supervision and training of personnel, market surveys, rehabilitation of sick units as well as operation and maintenance.

The consultancy organisations in India are directly or indirectly supported by more than 1,000 R&D institutions and research laboratories both under CSIR as well as other major scientific organisations such as DRDO, Atomic energy and space.

Largest concentration of consultancy organisations is in the four metropolitan cities. Delhi (25.7%) has the highest number of consultancy organisation among four metropolitan cities followed by Mumbai (25.5%), Chennai (12.1%) and Kolkata (9.1%).

Analysis of consultancy organisations in terms of technical professionals employed indicates that 68.3% of them have upto 10 technical professionals, 14.3% have 11-25 and 1.5% have more than 1000 technical professionals.