India may need 22 million skilled workforce by 2025: Telecom skills body

NEW DELHI: India would require as much as 22 million or 2.2 crore skilled manpower by 2025 as the country takes a step into fifth-generation or 5G-led technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics, and cloud computing, the telecom skills body said.

“Considering technologies like IoT, AI, machine learning, big data, cloud computing, and robotic process automation, roughly about 22 million workers will be required to skill or upskill themselves to match industry demand by 2025,” Arvind Bali, chief executive, Telecom Sector Skill Council (TSSC) told ETTelecom.