  Many, but not all, Indian CS & IT academics tend to have a focus on theory
and research. They do not give much importance to the practice of software
development. This paper proposes an additional software development career
track for Indian CS & IT academics different from the existing research
oriented career track. A measure of software contribution record is suggested.
It opines that adoption of such changes to academic regulations will result in
significant improvement of software development skill set in Indian CS & IT
academia which, in turn, will result in better software development skill set
in Indian CS & IT graduates.
