Vice President Hamid Ansari said that the IT industry will have to step up on innovation and meet challenges like the need for new products, digital disruption and shrinking manpower requirements triggered by software automation. Indian IT industry will have to step up on innovation amid challenges like need for new products, digital disruption and shrinking manpower requirements triggered by software automation, Vice President Hamid Ansari said on Saturday. Asking the Indian IT industry to be "more innovative", Ansari said that clients will increasingly look for "innovation partners rather than software partners". Ansari said that Professor Tarun Khanna (who headed the expert committee on innovation and entrepreneurship under the Atal Innovation Mission) had recommended a three-tier approach and dovetailing it with National Skills Development Programme. In 2013, Nasscom had announced plans to shift its headquarters to Noida, post which the construction had commenced.

Source: dna November 05, 2016 13:00 UTC