IT sector jobs to remain stable till 2020: say cabinet minister Ravi prasad

Jobs in the India IT sector will be safe till 2020 as the report given by World economic Forum,parliament was informed today.
According to a research report from WEF released recently, jobs in India’s IT sector are likely to remain stable at least up to 2020,” IT and Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said in a written reply to Rajya Sabha.
Prasad further said according to Nasscom, the Indian information technology (IT) and information technology enabled services (ITeS) industry continues to be the largest private sector employer and a net hirer of personnel and employs about 3.7 million people.
“Further, as per Nasscom-Mckinsey study ‘Perspective 2015’, about 1.2-2 million people will be added to the IT-ITeS workforce by 2020,” the minister said.