PLI scheme can make India laptop, tablet hub

    2021-01-26T17:46:10+00:00January 19th, 2021|In Focus: Covid-19 impact, India Inc Views - India Global Business|

    The recently launched production-linked incentive scheme for smartphone makers has already started paying rich dividends. Extending this to laptops, tablets could open up a $100-billion opportunity for India, reduce the trade gap with China and generate employment for millions.

      Start-ups will define the future of employment in India

      2020-03-24T07:53:37+00:00August 2nd, 2018|UK Edition - August 2018|

      In this regular column, our industry expert weighs up the impact of start-ups on jobs. There has been an ongoing discussion on whether technology creates jobs or kills them. With the surge in the number of tech-based start-ups on the rise, there have been discussions on the impact start-ups make on jobs. Research has time and again shown that technology has net-net created far more jobs than it has destroyed. A study by Deloitte drew on data going back to [...]

        India needs a digital mindset to tackle tech taking over jobs

        2018-05-18T13:02:57+00:00September 20th, 2017|2018/2017, Flagship Scheme, India Investment Journal September Edition, Year|

        Re-skilling and up-skilling must go hand-in-hand with tech advances in India, writes a digital expert.

        Last month, the lead singer of 70s band Talking Heads, David Byrne, wrote in the ‘MIT Technology Review’ about how tech is eliminating humans. With AI, autonomous vehicles, robots, automated self-service check-outs, and lots more, he says the art of human interaction will die away, since there will be no humans doing the traditional jobs of serving customers. But what does that mean for India, where there are over a billion people: if tech will replace all the manual jobs that give people a daily living, what will they do?

          Outbound tourists are the biggest Indian job creators abroad

          2018-08-01T13:16:15+00:00August 17th, 2017|2017/2018, August 2017, Sector Focus/Hospitality, Year|

          Indians spend an estimated $20 billion on their travels around the world, boosting local economies and creating jobs. A WTO study says this figure will rise to $60 billion by 2020, or about the same as the total FDI inflow into India last year. Let us start with two simple quiz questions: Which Indian group has spent the largest sum of money in the US since the turn of the millennium? And ditto for Europe? Okay, here’s are a few [...]

            As May files for EU divorce, wooing India must be a priority

            2018-09-04T12:57:29+00:00May 9th, 2017|2017/2018, INDIA-UK, Special Edition – May 2017, Year|

            Now that Mrs May has triggered formal divorce proceedings with the EU, India Inc. CEO Manoj Ladwa explains how the UK could learn a lesson or two from the Japanese on getting up close to Modi's India. The late Sir James Goldsmith, the billionaire financier who spent a considerable part of his personal fortune on a campaign to force Great Britain out of the European Union, once famously said: “When a man marries his mistress, he creates a job vacancy.” [...]

              H1B: The visa that bites

              2018-08-06T13:34:57+00:00April 11th, 2017|2017/2018, April 2017, Special Edition – May 2017, The Americas, THE AMERICAS, Year|

              As the Donald Trump administration begins to deliver on his poll promise of cracking down on the alleged misuse of H1B visas, Indian IT companies are feeling the pinch. Donald Trump’s election rhetoric is returning to bite the Indian IT sector as policy formulations of the new US administration. First, here are some updates on the bad news on H1B visas, the visa category mainly used by Indian IT companies to ship Indian IT professionals to the US. Tougher norms [...]

                Job creation may gather pace from second half of 2017

                2018-12-06T13:09:24+00:00January 9th, 2017|2018/2017, India Investment Journal January 2017, Top 5 Things to Watch in 2017, Year|

                The immediate impact of demonetisation will mean a slower pace of job creation but, overall, there is some good news in store for the New Year. How long will the current phase of jobless growth in India, which began during the UPA II regime continue? And when will the Narendra Modi government’s flagship schemes such as Make in India, Start-up India, etc., start generating jobs – which, for many Indians, remains the true touchstone of the achcche din (good times) [...]

                  Business travel to India: Some practical tips for your visa journey

                  2019-01-02T10:33:40+00:00January 9th, 2017|2018/2017, India Investment Journal January 2017, Other Highlights, Year|

                  An Indian visa strategist demystifies some of the jargon that is often associated with very simple travel procedures for the country and analyses how the e-visa is changing the landscape for business travel to India. When one hears the words Indian visas, one usually has images of nightmare queues and waking up at ridiculous hours of the morning to trek to the Indian mission. Well, with the advent of an online visa (the so called e-Tourist Visa (e-TV for short)), [...]