Lok Sabha Question No. 2906 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-08-03
Subject: Number of Employees in IT
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: A. Ganeshamurthi

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND  INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.  2906

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 03.08.2022

## NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES IN IT

## 2906.   SHRI A. GANESHAMURTHI:

Will the Minister of ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY be pleased to state:

- (a) the number of employees employed in Information Technology in the year 2021-22 and the number of personnel employed in digitally skilled technology;
- (b) the steps taken to maintain this growth trend, internal re-skilling programmes to develop the future work force in digital skills;
- (c) the details of the total revenue of countries IT sector during the last three years, year-wise;
- (d) the details of the estimated number of personnel required in the next five years to become core IT talent leader in digital talent supply across key digital skills such as cloud computing, AI, big data analytics and IoT; and
- (e) the details of the measures taken for manpower planning and skill development training thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR  ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI RAJEEV CHANDRASEKHAR)

- (a):  As per National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM),Indian Information Technology (IT)Industry directly employs around 51 lakh persons in FY 202122, most of which are IT skilled. In addition, with increasing digitalization under the Digital India program in the last 7 years, other economic sectors have created large opportunities for digitally enabled jobs.
- (c): The total revenue of Indian IT sector for the last three years is as under:
- (b),  (d)  and  (e):    As  per  report  by  Ministry  of  Electronics  &  IT  on  'India's  trillion-dollar digital opportunity', India is poised to be a trillion dollar digital economy and could support 60 to 65 million digitally enabled jobs by 2025-26. Also, as per NASSCOM, the projected requirement of manpower  by  Indian IT  industry itself  by the  year 2026  would  be around 95 lakh, for India to

| Financial Year   |   Revenue (USD in billion) |
|------------------|----------------------------|
| FY 2019-20       |                        190 |
| FY 2020-21       |                        196 |
| FY 2021-22 E     |                        227 |

E: estimated, Source: NASSCOM

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.

Some of the steps taken by industry include increased fresher hiring, expanding operations to tier-II/III  cities.  To  develop  the  future work  force  in  emerging  digital  skills,  Ministry  of Electronics  &  IT  (MeitY)  and  National  Association  of  Software  and  Services  Companies (NASSCOM) have jointly initiated a programme titled 'FutureSkills PRIME (Programme for Re-skilling/Up-skilling  of  IT  Manpower  for  Employability)'  which  aims  to  create  a  reskilling/up-skilling  ecosystem  in  futuristic  technologies.Under  the  FutureSkills  PRIME program so far, 8.20 Lakh candidates have registered on the FutureSkills PRIME Portal, out of  which,  1.36  Lakh  candidates  have  completed  their  courses.Further,  as  per  NASSCOM, some  of  the  measures  taken  by  industry  for  manpower  planning  and  skill  development training include alliances with academia  for training the employee  base, innovation andresearch &development  across  areas  of  emerging  technologies,  internal  re-skilling programs and platforms, collaborations with other education technology companies.

********