The Minister for Communication and Information Technology Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad said in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today. The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), an apex trade association of Indian Information Technology (IT) and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry has not reported any such concerns of the IT industry in recent past to Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Communications & Information Technology. Further, the Indian IT-BPO industry has been progressively growing and is estimated to have contributed to additional employment of 2,30,000 persons in FY 2014-15. The total direct employment by Indian IT-BPO sector is about 3.5 million professionals.
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