 "Ravi Shankar Prasad")
Jobs in the Indian IT sector are likely to remain stable at least till 2020 as per a report from World Economic Forum (WEF), Parliament was informed on Friday.
"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.
