India is poised to be a trillion dollar digital economy by 2026.
India is poised to be a trillion dollar digital economy and could support 60 to 65 million digitally enabled jobs by 2025-26: Ministry of Electronics & IT (MeitY) Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology on Wednesday issued a statement with information about the revenue generated by the IT sector in India over the past 3 years and the future prospects of employment in India's information technology industry. According to the statement, as per National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), the projected requirement of manpower by Indian IT industry itself by the year 2026 would be around 95 lakh, for India to maintain the growth momentum in IT sector and also of which 55 lakh will be digitally skilled across key digital technologies such as cloud computing, AI, big data analytics and IoT etc. Indian Information Technology (IT) Industry directly employs around 51 lakh persons in FY 2021-22, most of which are IT