{"id":837301,"date":"2024-07-25T11:19:54","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T05:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=837301"},"modified":"2024-07-25T11:22:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T05:52:08","slug":"it-flags-singapores-new-skilled-visa-framework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/25\/it-flags-singapores-new-skilled-visa-framework\/","title":{"rendered":"IT flags Singapore\u2019s new skilled visa framework"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The IT industry has raised concerns with the Indian government around Singapore&#8217;s new framework for skilled worker visas, saying it could hinder ease of doing business due to the existing skills shortage. <\/p>\n<p>The industry has flagged the narrow criteria under the points-based framework, where only eight Indian universities are eligible for points and all nationalities are given equal weightage for diversity assessment, which may not reflect the on-ground realities, industry body Nasscom told ET. It also seeks to expand which roles are listed as being in a \u2018shortage\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IT industry has raised concerns with the Indian government around Singapore&#8217;s new framework for skilled worker visas, saying it could hinder ease of doing business due to the existing skills shortage. The industry has flagged the narrow criteria under the points-based framework, where only eight Indian universities are eligible for points and all nationalities are given equal weightage for diversity assessment, which may not reflect the on-ground realities, industry body Nasscom told ET. It also seeks to expand which roles are listed as being in a \u2018shortage\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}