The government today informed the Parliament that the telecom sector has created 2.54 lakh jobs from 2013-14 till April 30 of 2016-17. In a written reply to Lok sabha, the Communications and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that total 89,634 jobs were created in 2013-14, 61,573 in 2014-15, 94,294 in 2015-16 and 8,682 in 2016-17 (till April 30, 2016).

This includes both direct and indirect jobs. He also informed about jobs likely to be generated as envisaged by India Skill Report, 2016. “In fact, anticipating the need, the government has already conducted the skill gap study for the telecom sector,” said Prasad.

“The government is fully aware of the telecom sector job generation and the need for telecom skilled manpower so that telecom industry does not feel the shortage of skilled manpower and the telecom growth story continues," said Prasad.

He said that skill development training has already been provided to 6,40,210 in the last 3 financial years till March 31. It is proposed to provide training to over 2 lakh candidates in 2016-17 and still further in subsequent years to meet the projected need of the sector.