{"id":34322,"date":"2017-05-23T23:47:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T23:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2017\/05\/23\/20-25-lakh-jobs-will-be-created-in-it-sector-minister\/"},"modified":"2017-05-23T23:47:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T23:47:58","slug":"20-25-lakh-jobs-will-be-created-in-it-sector-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2017\/05\/23\/20-25-lakh-jobs-will-be-created-in-it-sector-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"20-25 lakh jobs will be created in IT sector: Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/><\/p>\n<div>Denying the reports of a downturn in employment in the country\u2019s IT industry, Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Tuesday said in the coming four to five years, almost 20-25 lakh additional jobs will be created in the sector. \u201cI completely deny and refute that there is any downturn in the employment in the IT sector. It is robust. Once the digital economy is here, you will see how much it will progress,\u201d the Minister said during an interaction with reporters at a press meet in the ministry.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\u201cIndian IT companies are spread across 200 cities and 80 countries around the world, which provide direct employment to 40 lakh people and indirect employment to almost 1.3 crore people. As the industry is moving forward, it is Nasscom\u2019s assessment that in the coming four to five years, almost 20-25 lakh additional jobs will be created,\u201d he added.<\/div>\n<div>The Minister said in the next five to seven years, India\u2019s digital economy will be of an estimated $1 trillion, which is almost Rs 600 lakh crore.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cIn the last three years, almost six lakh people have been employed in our IT sector. In 2016-17, the number of people employed was around 1.7 lakh,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cWe have common service centres in about 2.5 lakh cities and almost 10 lakh people are employed there.\u201d &nbsp;The Indian IT companies currently serve two-thirds of the Fortune 500 companies and have created 40 lakh direct jobs in India, the ministry said in a statement.<\/div>\n<div>The minister said the IT Ministry has taken note of projections by software industry organisation Nasscom to present an objective and realistic potential of the employment scenario.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cNasscom has confirmed that the industry continues to be a net hirer and reports that 2.5-3 million new jobs will be created by 2025. In 2016-17, the industry added 170,000 new jobs,\u201d the release said.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denying the reports of a downturn in employment in the country\u2019s IT industry, Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Tuesday said in the coming four to five years, almost 20-25 lakh additional jobs will be created in the sector. \u201cI completely deny and refute that there is any downturn in the employment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}