The minister elaborated that 80 per cent of the jobs could be BPO sector, while the remaining could be in the electronics sector.
With the start-up sector making great strides in the country, Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that 10 million additional jobs could be created in the following two years for the electronics and BPO sector.
At the inauguration of the national level Start-up Initiative organized by the Software Technology Park of India and the Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council in New Delhi, he also elaborated that the electronics sector could alone create additional jobs between 2.5 to 3 million, adding to the 8 million BPO sector jobs.
He said, “We now have an ecosystem that gives importance to merit and talent, that can power innovations and disruptions.” There is a visible drive to proliferate frontier technologies in areas like telecom, electronics, railways, and other related areas to help India to emerge as a technology leader.
He added that three megatrends that Prime Minister Narendra Modi predicted are coming to pass in the nation. The desire to become the technological leader, supported by the nation’s talent pool, inventiveness, high level of computer literacy, and commitment to excellence, is foremost among them. Next is the manufacturing sector, which is witnessing huge innovations, is next in importance, especially for the mobile phone system, where India has recently turned from being a net importer to a major exporter.
