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Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) Signed MoU with Department of Telecommunication (DoT)

Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Department of Telecommunication (DoT) with vision to make India the skill capital of the world.

MoU Envisages:

  • To  fulfill skilled manpower requirement of the telecom sector and at the same time providing quality opportunities for employment / entrepreneurship.

  • Mobilization of financial support for various activities under the National Ecosystem for Development of Telecom Skills.

  • They utilize old telephone exchanges which are no longer in use or exchanges which have ceased to occupy major space in telecom sector,   for skill development initiatives and upgrade the same on need basis.

  • To develop ‘National Institute for Policy Research Innovation and Training (NTIPRT)’ for training and skill up gradation in Telecom Sector.

Recent development in telecommunication sector:

  • The Telecommunications Sector in India is expected to show a strong growth of around 15 % between 2013-17. 

  • The workforce of around 2.08 million in 2013 is expected to increase to 4.16 million by 2022.

  • Telecommunications Industry is expected to generate significant number of new Jobs primarily in supervisory and managerial profiles

  • Manufacturing in the telecom sector will also create new job roles at all levels.

About telecommunication in India: 

  • Indian Telecommunications Sector is a fast growing technological sector having manpower needs right from high school to graduates and post graduates and people with different areas of Telecommunications and Information Technology Skills.

  • The Indian Telecommunications alone contributed 3% to national GDP in financial year 2013 as per a report.

  • India is currently the second-largest telecommunication market .

  • It has one of the lowest call tariffs in the world enabled by the mega telephone networks and hyper-competition among them.

  • The Industry has grown over twenty times in just ten years, from under 37 million subscribers in the year 2001 to over 846 million subscribers in the year 2011.

  • It has the world’s second-largest Internet user-base with over 300 million as of June 2015.

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