India braces for skills shortage

According to the PHDCCI, PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in the next five years, India should brace up for the dearth of 5 million to 6 million trained professionals, as the educational institutions in the private and public fields are not making the frantic efforts to produce and promote skill sets of professionals to meet the requirements.

PHDCCI president Sanjay Bhatia said that we have demonstrated that the manufacturing sector will be a hard hit as there is too much scarcity of manpower already on the sphere with the growth rate taking on in recent years and pay rates getting inflamed.

Chamber said that the manufacturing in India is spinning highly digital and so in the requisite of experienced professionals. The government-subsidized the industrial training institutes who are still extracting the manpower with superfluous skill set, as a result making it intricate for the industry to employ them.

He said that the service sector requires over 3 million skilled professionals annually, as it is budding much faster than the agriculture. It is estimated that salaries in India, led by the IT services to rise more rapidly than any other major Asian country.

In the face of the hiring by international firms IBM, Oracle, Accenture, Microsoft and SAP, the attrition rates in software firms persist to be ridiculous, too high.

In the last quarter of 2006, 23,000 employees were added on their own to their payrolls by the top five domestic software firms-- TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Satyam and HCL Technologies. At the same time, they have taken their overall headcount in close proximity to 300,000. This year, they are likely to engage 100,000 more.

According to global research and market intelligence firm, within the next four years, India's IT services will cross the US$100 billion mark in revenue with a growth rate of 18%, regardless of the appreciating rupee.

N R Narayana Murthy, chief counselor of software giant Infosys said that there is a severe manpower shortage, so in order to evade serious problem in further growth, India should quickly install a modern and world-class human resources policy.

Indian sell is upcoming and is place to make $430 billion from the present $328 billion with the opening of big players. In the next five to seven years, more than $30 billion of investment is liable to be made. India will become the second largest employment generating sector after agriculture, as this exponential growth is expected to produce 18 million jobs.

Renewed real estate investment laws for non-resident Indians and foreign investors have provided the boost to propel the real-estate market towards the $50 billion mark by 2010. This has created a substantial demand for civil engineers and construction workers.

For its initial public offering, real estate behemoth DLF lately received sanction from the market supervisor, in the course of which it is expected to raise more than Rs100 billion ($2.5 billion). Over the next three years, it is anticipated that more than $2 billion is possible to be moved into the hospitality sector.

Barclays-ABN-Amro merger is set to form 8,000-10,000 jobs in India. In the next three years, foreign banks such as Citigroup, HSBC and Standard Chartered are looking forward for hiring over 50,000 workforces in India. As a result of reorganization, Citigroup is setting up to hire 5,000-8,000 employees in India. The US firm at present employs over 22,000 in the country.

Annual study of human resources conducted by consulting firm Hewitt Associates estimated that India will keep on to be the highest salary growth province in the Asia-Pacific region with the all-time high average pay hike of 14.5% in 2007 against 14.4% in 2006, 14.1% in 2005 and 13.7% in 2004. Middle managers and professional and technical workers will obtain the biggest rises at 15.1% and 15.8% respectively.

Hewitt executive, Sharad Vishvanath said that the compensation plays an elementary role in luring talent and ongoing employee engagement. At the Indian organization of Management Ahmedabad, this year, the average entry-level domestic wages increased by about 40% to over Rs1.35 million, whereas the international average stands at $115,300, an augment of about 25%.

Chamber advised that the public-private partnerships and the government should set up a task force to realistically assess the manpower requirements as upgrading of IITs will require greater investments. Recently, a leading legal outsourcing firm, Pangea3 has recruited 30 graduates in a sharp and pungent situation from the current academic session at different IITs.

It is absolutely necessary that employment elasticity in manufacturing to be increased, according to an estimate by Team Lease Services, (leading headhunting firm) so that the manpower requirements in the sector of over 2.5 million per year can be meted.

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