Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and Railways, Piyush Goyal has said that the government of India will give all support for the global growth of India’s IT industry and will make all efforts to facilitate the IT service industry & for that it is ready to engage with China and also Japan and Korea. The Minister urged India’s IT services companies to explore new markets and not be inhibited in operating in countries that are non-English speaking.
Commerce and Industry Minister also urged the top five Indian IT firms (TCS, Wipro, Infosys, Tech Mahindra and HCL) to create a corpus that will be spent on training manpower in languages like Mandarin, Japanese and Korean for accessing the markets in these countries.
Meanwhile, Piyush Goyal held a meeting with senior managers of IT companies in New Delhi to discuss opportunities for Indian IT companies to invest and grow their business in new markets like the Nordic countries, Eastern and Central Europe, Canada, Australia and Africa and also explore avenues for greater investments and growth in East Asian markets like China, Japan and Korea.