Dr. Rishi Bhatnagar, President-Aeris Communications & Chairman IET IoT Panel India says “The interim budget undoubtedly introduced policies to push the country towards a digital economy. I strongly believe the upcoming budget will fuel the Indian IT companies towards innovation which is the core and utmost important aspect of taking digitization at a full swing in India. Lowering the GST slabs in manufacturing devices can pose as an opportunity for the youth to lead India in this endeavour with innumerable innovative start-ups. This will not only take India closer to the vision of a digital India but also widen the talent pool by creating new jobs.  For an incessant spur to Make In India and Digital India, initiatives like making National centre for Artificial Intelligence and building Centre of Excellence in collaboration with universities will open the path for the youth in India to leverage the new state-of-the-art development infrastructure and upskill themselves to widen the job opportunity pool for themselves.”

Mr. Snehashish Bhattacharjee, Global CEO, Denave says “To ensure technology, disruption and innovation continue to prosper, a robust R&D support is a must. Clearly, expectations have risen notches post the interim budget  ’19-’20 which initiated the conversation towards building a digital India. It held promise of greater focus on emerging technologies with plans of a National programme on Artificial Intelligence (AI) comprising establishing a national centre on AI along with Centre of Excellence (CoE). It is now important that the pace of the change is quickened and we hope the government will have multiple things in their bucket to offer in this section. Also, India has emerged as a land for budding talent in IT/ITeS industry, it is imperative for government to start recognising the young talents and work on the notions to widen the job pool for them. Easy accessibility of their technical capabilities will carve the path to catalyse Indian job ecosystem”