City
Epaper

India can create 100 million jobs: Tata Sons Chairman

By IANS | Updated: February 4, 2020 19:30 IST

Tata Sons Chairman N. Chandrasekaran has said that India can create 100 million jobs with necessary policy changes and by tapping some low hanging fruits.

Open in App

"See, there are certain low hanging fruits which can be tapped. The intervention of solving these problems does not require a lot of money," Chandrasekaran said at an event on Monday night.

He said policy changes are not capital intensive expenditure, citing the example of how building platforms is inexpensive in a place like India.

"We are not talking about a capital expenditure of $10 billion, we are talking about much less money," said the Chairman of the Tata Group, a salt to software conglomerate with a combined market cap of $160 billion.

Chandrasekaran reflected upon multiple topics during the launch of his book "Bridgital Nation", written in collaboration with Roopa Purushothaman.

He said creating 100 million jobs and formalising a good number of them will increase the consumer base of India by virtue of increased income to the employees.

The former Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) chief executive said that not everybody in India needs to go for higher education.

According to Chandrasekaran, 55, India has the unique problem of two thirds of its workforce being educated till eighth standard or less.

He highlighted that only one-third of Indian workforce is educated up to eighth standard or more, even as 120 million such people are not in work.

Citing the example of doctor-patient ratio in rural and urban India, which is 1:5,000 and 1:1,700, respectively, Chandrasekaran said the country cannot expect another half a million doctors to emerge in the next five years going through education.

"We have to demystify a doctor's work. And lesser tasks have to be done by non-medically educated people but assisted with technology," he said.

Chandrasekaran advocated the use of modern technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Cloud to create jobs.

( With inputs from IANS )

Tags: indiaTata GroupTata Consultancy Services
Open in App

Related Stories

CricketIndia vs South Africa 2025 Schedule: Full List of Matches, Dates, Venues and Fixtures

TechnologyOpenAI Offers ChatGPT Go Free for a Year in India; Check All the Features Users Can Now Access

NationalGolden Power: Indian Women Now Hold 24,000 Tonnes of Gold, Outshining Global Investors

MumbaiMumbai Man Pursuing PhD in US Booked for Sexually Abusing Woman on False Promise of Marriage

LifestyleCreative Rangoli Designs for Dhanteras and Diwali 2025 to Welcome Goddess Lakshmi

कारोबार Realted Stories

Business"Whatever India requires, we are here to support": Rostec CEO affirms support for India's defence needs

BusinessFocus on 'effectively utilising' Chabahar port as Afghan minister begins India visit

BusinessChandigarh tops EV infrastructure Index amid 1 pc increase in fleet share

BusinessNPCI set to shake up card usages; fintech companies stand to gain: Bernstein report

BusinessCement sector set for 63% earnings surge in FY26 on low base, cost cuts: Report