Union Minister of State for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship and Electronics & IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar has said that India will soon have a talent pool of 85,000 in the semiconductor space, who will not only create innovative designs and solutions for the country but also for the world.
The minister said that India's 'Techade' is changing the narrative of the country being a IT/ITES hub and now it has broadened to include the internet and consumer-tech and will also cover AI, semicon design and production, quantum computing etc. He also said ‘our digital economy pie has transitioned from a unipolar prism of IT/ITES to one that consists of almost every activity in the digital economy space that the world is pursuing.’
Talking on the Digital India Act (DIA), he said it is going to supersede the IT Act, which has gone into the pre-consultation phase. He further said ‘we have already had some fruitful discussions. We want to be transparent and collaborative about it. The laws and framework of policies we are creating are not just for today but for the next decade. ‘
