Indian IT industry could see upturn next year: Nasscom

Indian IT industry could see upturn next year: Nasscom

FPJ BureauUpdated: Thursday, May 30, 2019, 02:30 AM IST
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Hyderabad : India’s IT industry could see an upturn next year as the process of investments in technology, particularly in the United States, has started to gather momentum, says a senior official. The industry is on track to posting 7-8 per cent growth in exports in the current fiscal and there is no case for revisiting those numbers as no new factor has emerged, said software services body Nasscom’s president, R Chandrashekhar.

   The export growth projection for 2017-18 had taken into account “all the changes in technology, global economics and global politics including political protectionism,” he said. “We believe we are on the same track (to achieve 7 to 8 per cent export growth for the Indian IT industry as a whole). We don’t see any need for any major change at this point. We believe, that is the range we will be in,” Chandrashekhar told PTI. “We don’t see a case for revisiting those numbers. The important thing is: no new factors have come up which warrants reconsideration. Whatever factors are there are all known factors, all these were taken into consideration when we made the projection,” he said.

 “Also, we believe that the coming year could actually witness an upturn in the industry largely based on global economic trends, US trends in particular,” the official said. He said as per “most commentators and analysts”, for the last year or two, a lot of investments in technology had been deferred because of political and technological uncertainties, and “nobody wanted to take a big bet at that time”. “Now, I think those uncertainties have either been resolved or that level of uncertainty has now stabilised and we know that this uncertainty is going to continue for a long time,” he said.

 The process of investing in technology has sort of started picking up and this trend is actually expected to really consolidate in 2018, Chandrashekhar said. He said there are expectations of an upturn in BFSI  segment in the US.

Over 1,000 tech start-ups added in 2017

The country has seen an addition of over 1,000 start-ups this year, strengthening its position as the third largest start-up ecosystem across the world, amidst intensifying competition from countries like UK and Israel. This takes the total number of technology start-ups to nearly 5,200, according to the Nasscom Startup Report.

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