India to add 3 million tech jobs by 2023

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  • 7 million by 2023: With the additions, the size of the country’s tech army will be 7 million by 2023.
  • New digital technology areas:
    (1) All these new jobs would come up in digital technology areas such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, Internet of things (IOT), data science, analytics, big data, blockchain and augmented reality.
    (2) Jobs would also be created in newer technology areas that are presently unknown but are expected to emerge and evolve in the next few years.
  • Relief to millions: The ISF’s tech employment projection comes as a big relief to millions of young techies and software engineering students amid talks of the move towards jobless growth with automation that replaces humans with robots.
  • Changing technology:
    (1) Industry had been witnessing winds of change in technology.
    (2) Some 63% of CEOs think that AI would have a larger impact than the Internet and some 39% of them had already started AI-related initiatives in their organisations.
Source
The Hindu





Posted by Jawwad Kazi on 10th May 2019