consulting firm Deloitte has said that Indian IT industry would add over 2.25 lakh employees in 2011.
Citing its Technology, Media and Telecommunications Predictions for 2011, media reports said revenues from the information technology and business process outsourcing industry will reach US$71.7 billion for 2011 and account for 5.8 per cent of the country's GDP.
With this additions the total number of employees working in the IT/ITeS (IT enabled services) sector would grow to 22.3 lakh this year, it said. The report also added that an additional 80 lakh people will get employment indirectly from the sector.
According to Deloitte's TMT Predictions 2011 will see a beginning of active participation between telecom service providers and various industries such as information technology, media, banking, healthcare and education in reaching rural areas in India and offering services, which would empower them.
“With most of the population living in villages in India, there is huge opportunity for TMT sector bring services such as healthcare, education, entertainment, banking and finance to the rural doorsteps,” another report quoted Jolyon Barker, Global Leader, TMT, Deloitte, as saying.
A Deloitte spokesperson also said the advantage for customers from MNP would be better quality of service, lesser call drops, better infrastructures and increase in loyalty programmes and customer retention marketing techniques. Operators offering3G services would have an edge with the introduction of MNP as not all operators have won the auctioned 3G spectrum.
The study also predicted that in 2011, more than 50 per cent of computing devices sold globally will be smartphones, tablets and non-PC (personal computer) netbooks, breaking the PC's decades-long market dominance.
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