India Offices Of Salesforce And Truecaller Inaugurated

New Delhi, March 17 (TNA) Union Minister of State for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship and Electronics & IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Thursday said that the policies of Narendra Modi Government on ease of doing business have helped New India’s manufacturing & startup ecosystem and encouraged global companies to open offices here, which in turn, will bring in opportunities for jobs and entrepreneurships for young Indians.

Welcoming the move by Salesforce and Truecaller to open their India offices in Hyderabad and Bengaluru respectively, the Minister said, “This speaks of India's growth as a trusted technology partner to the world that has been made possible, thanks to the Government’s proactive policies and our vibrant startup and innovation ecosystem.”

He said, “With the launch of the Digital India Programme in 2015, a single dimensional, digital economy that we inherited in 2014 has become a broad-based, high growth digital economy having multiple asynchronous components that are all growing rapidly and creating innovation in their wake.”

At the Salesforce event, Rajeev Chandrasekhar said that the active presence of the global major in India is expected to generate significantly large number of jobs and opportunities and be an important of part of the India Techade story. The Minister also spoke about the efforts of the Government to create a skilled workforce in Industry relevant Future ready skills.

At the office inauguration of Truecaller, first outside its headquarters in Sweden, Chandrasekhar spoke about the need to support the good of technology while regulating the bad by laying down guardrails. The Minister said, “We are designing and architecting new legislation and new rules that will provide the guardrails, enablers and catalysts for India’s innovation ecosystem for the coming decade.”