Amid rising worries over job losses due to the ongoing H-1B visa troubles, industry body, the Associated Chambers of Commerce of India (Assocham) has said that the Indian IT and BPM industry should shift their focus on domestic opportunities, noting that this is time to redraw strategy that gives a good look at the home market, which can more than make up at least in the short to medium term, for the possible dent on jobs in the disruptive overseas markets.
Assocham’s secretary general DS Rawat claimed "lakhs of new jobs" can be created through the focus on domestic opportunity which can make up for the losses due to upheavals in global markets and changing technologies. The industry body has said government's financial inclusion programmes like Prime Minister Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) and Aadhar based service delivery models offer interesting job opportunities in the country itself and added that an increased focus on the domestic front will be a win-win move for both the country as well as the IT industry. Besides, it has said that data generated by PMJDY and its linkages with Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) can be a delight for different set of analytics and can be used to help the fast moving consumer goods, auto, telecom, insurance, agriculture sectors.
As per Assocham, the Indian IT-BPM industry employs about four million young workforce in the country in over 16,000 companies and 60 per cent of the current work done by the Indian IT industry is for global companies in the banking, financial services and insurance sector. It has cited factors like huge Internet base (400 million) and said that increasing adoption of digital payments that will further fuel the growth of technology uptake in the country.
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