{"id":983030,"date":"2026-01-03T07:30:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T02:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=983030"},"modified":"2026-01-03T07:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T02:06:00","slug":"electronics-it-sectors-employ-over-1-crore-people-in-india-ashwini-vaishnaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/03\/electronics-it-sectors-employ-over-1-crore-people-in-india-ashwini-vaishnaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Electronics, IT sectors employ over 1 crore people in India: Ashwini Vaishnaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Union Minister of Electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Friday that electronics manufacturing &amp; services and IT services companies today employ over 1 crore people in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElectronics manufacturing has emerged as one of India\u2019s largest employment generators. Direct employment in electronics manufacturing has crossed 25 lakh, with mobile manufacturing alone accounting for nearly 14 to 15 lakh jobs,\u201d Vaishnaw said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen combined with IT and electronics services, total employment is now well over one crore, making it one of the most significant contributors to India\u2019s industrial workforce,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Union Minister of Electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Friday that electronics manufacturing &amp; services and IT services companies today employ over 1 crore people in the country. \u201cElectronics manufacturing has emerged as one of India\u2019s largest employment generators. Direct employment in electronics manufacturing has crossed 25 lakh, with mobile manufacturing alone accounting for nearly 14 to 15 lakh jobs,\u201d Vaishnaw said. \u201cWhen combined with IT and electronics services, total employment is now well over one crore, making it one of the most significant contributors to India\u2019s industrial workforce,\u201d he added.<\/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-983030","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\/983030","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=983030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}