MoS Rajeev Chandrasekhar inaugurates India offices of Salesforce and Truecaller
India’s digital economy has moved from being a single dimensional, digital
economy in 2014 to a broad-based, high growth one: MoS Rajeev Chandrasekhar
Union
Minister of State for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship and Electronics
& IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar today
said that the policies of Narendra Modi Government on ease of doing business
have helped New India’s manufacturing & startup ecosystem and encouraged
global companies to open offices here, which in turn, will bring in
opportunities for jobs and entrepreneurships for young Indians.
Welcoming
the move by Salesforce and Truecaller to open their India offices in Hyderabad
and Bengaluru respectively, the Minister said, “This speaks of India's growth
as a trusted technology partner to the world that has been made possible,
thanks to the Government’s proactive policies and our vibrant startup and
innovation ecosystem.” Rajeev
Chandrasekhar was virtually addressing the inauguration of the offices of these
global technology companies from New Delhi.
Speaking
about India’s rise as preeminent nation in the use of technology, the Minister
said, “For long India was known as a back office to the world, with our digital
economy defined by the presence of number of companies in the IT/ITeS space.
After the Prime Minister took over in 2014, he envisioned the digital economy
to play a larger and a more expansive role in the India growth story and be a
larger part of the emerging India GDP.”
He said,
“With the launch of the Digital India Programme in 2015, a single dimensional,
digital economy that we inherited in 2014 has become a broad-based, high growth
digital economy having multiple asynchronous components that are all growing
rapidly and creating innovation in their wake.”
At the
Salesforce event, Rajeev Chandrasekhar said that the active presence of the
global major in India is expected to generate significantly large number of
jobs and opportunities and be an important of part of the India Techade story.
India today
has made a mark in electronics manufacturing, emerging as a production power
and boasts of world class startup and innovation ecosystem, the third largest
in the world, Rajeev Chandrasekhar added.
The
Minister also spoke about the efforts of the Government to create a skilled
workforce in Industry relevant Future ready skills. Sharing about the new
Skilling initiative announced in the Union Budget 2023, Rajeev Chandrasekhar said, “The PMKVY 4.0 is a
scheme designed to deal with the post Covid opportunities and challenges and
will cover new age courses on Industry 4.0 like coding, AI, robotics,
mechatronics, IOT, 3D printing, drones, and soft skills.”
Referring
to the vision of Prime Minister to make India a Talent Hub for the world, the
Minister said, “A roadmap is being developed in co-partnership with industry,
academia and R&D Institutions for the development of skill and talent in
the country.” He cited the example of recently released Future Skills report
that aims to train 85,000 semiconductor engineers, designers and other support
talent over the next four years as per the latest requirements of the Industry.
At the
office inauguration of Truecaller, first outside its headquarters in Sweden, Chandrasekhar
spoke about the need to support the good of technology while regulating the bad
by laying down guardrails.
The
Minister said, “We are designing and architecting new legislation and new rules
that will provide the guardrails, enablers and catalysts for India’s innovation
ecosystem for the coming decade.”