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The USD 245-billion Indian technology industry on Wednesday flagged the "employability gap" in engineering graduates, saying that the education system is not focusing on building strong foundational and professional skills. Debjani Ghosh, the president of the technology industry lobby Nasscom, told reporters that the gap in skillsets forces IT companies to spend more time in training the freshers before they are deployed, which results in significant costs. Over the last two decades, Indian IT companies have been rendering services for the world courtesy of cost arbitrage and the number of engineering graduates which the country puts out into the market every year. But the changing nature of requirements seems to have led to disappointments. Ghosh said that today's engineers are not working in backoffice any more, but sitting with the customers as the industry shifts from service provider to digital transformation partner. our current educational system does not focus on building g
Amid the growing fears of slowdown and global recession, the Union Budget is growth-oriented, boosting allocations across sectors, according to IT industry body Nasscom. The budget offers a playing ground for the startup community as well, and has highlighted that India is the third largest ecosystem for startups, Nasscom said in a statement. "Amidst the growing fear of slowdown and global recession, the Union Budget 2023 is growth-oriented and committed budget, that has boosted allocations across sectors," the IT industry association said. India is walking the talk on becoming a global digital economy, enhancing competitive advantage with focus and investments across key intervention areas. "Calling out the Indian economy as tech-driven, knowledge-based economy, the budget focuses on three key transformational trends that will help build India its competitive advantage - digital transformation, energy transformation, and supply chain resilience," said Nasscom, the apex body for th
India's deep tech startups need higher seed and early stage funding to grow faster as only 11 per cent of technology-related funds reach this ecosystem as of now, National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) president Debjani Ghosh said on Friday. Deep tech or deep technology startups are enterprises that work in the area of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, quantum, blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT), drones and augmented reality (AR). Speaking at a workshop on 'Startups and Entrepreneurship: Vision India@2047', organised by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) under the Ministry of Commerce, Ghosh pointed out that of the total 25,000-plus tech startups in the country, only 3,000 are related to deep tech that account for only 12 per cent. India has some excellent deep tech startups working across the entire range of emerging technologies, but only 11 per cent of total technology-related funding i