Industry body Nasscom today said it will work on creating awareness and provide training to people in under-served sections of key towns and cities to help them move towards cashless payment methods.
Nasscom, in a letter, has sought support from NITI Aayog as well as ministries of IT and Telecom to identify and commit workforce from their organisations, who will train people around them on online payment methods.
"NITI Aayog and the ministries of IT and Telecom have devised a two-pronged approach for communicating with and enabling as many citizens as possible, a plan which will be executed with the active support of Nasscom and Nasscom Foundation," the letter said.
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The first mission will be an awareness campaign through public events and one-to-one training by industry volunteers in key cities in "push" mode.
The second will be setting up call centre help desks to provide awareness and actual training and conversion to digital payments in a "pull" mode, it added.
These interventions will help train people with bank/Jan Dhan accounts through a 'step by step' module on online payment methods.
Nasscom urged the organisations to "identify and commit a large volunteer force of a minimum of 100 people" from their organisation.
"Nasscom Foundation will ensure that the volunteers are briefed and prepared to participate in this movement which is planned during the period December 9-30, 2016," it said.
The letter also urged that individual employees be encouraged to directly train at least 10 persons on any of the online payment methods they themselves use.
"Given the large workforce that our industry employs. such volunteers could make an enormous impact in terms of the number of people that they are actually able to convert," the letter said.
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chief Vishal Sikka says Trump himself is an entrepreneur and a business leader and therefore, he "expects that this will be the case where business and innovation friendly regime."
"In the near-term, we do expect there will be changes to the visa policy, H1-B visa policy. As policies take effect we will consider, analyse and understand their impact," he said.
While it's to early to comment on what will happen but the hope is for a business-friendly atmosphere, he added.
Larger rival, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has also said it is proactively addressing these concerns by making changes to its business model.
"From headwind point of view, I think there will be some visa regulatory changes. There are two possibilities, especially when you look at the US visa. One with regard to the visa fee...The second is a commentary on the number of visas one will get. I think we are addressing both very proactively," TCS MD and chief executive N Chandrasekaran had said.
Greyhound Research Chief Analyst and CEO Sanchit Gogia said better skilled jobs including coding and maintenance are likely to remain unaffected given their scarce availability and exclusivity.
Also, it's critical to remember that most US-based companies (including many Fortune 500s) are deeply invested (and dependent) on Indian IT Service providers and neither they nor the Trump administration is in a position to make drastic changes, he said.
"Given the current sentiment, in 2017 we can well expect Indian IT Service providers to use multiple channels including both US-based and Indian lobby groups, open forums and university programs to engage with the Trump administration," he added.
