{"id":994751,"date":"2026-02-25T11:37:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994751"},"modified":"2026-02-25T13:08:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:38:55","slug":"indias-it-sector-to-grow-6-1-nasscom-predicts-135-000-new-jobs-in-fy26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/25\/indias-it-sector-to-grow-6-1-nasscom-predicts-135-000-new-jobs-in-fy26\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s IT sector to grow 6.1% \u2013 Nasscom predicts 1,35, 000 new jobs in FY26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The IT sector in India is in the eye of the storm, given the global rout on fears of AI-led disruption. Fears of job loss is one of the cardinal concerns. However, the IT sector industry body Nasscom predicts that India\u2019s technology sector is expected to grow 6.1% to $315 billion revenue in FY26 and remain around that level in FY27. According to Reuters, Nasscom said that the growth will be driven by artificial intelligence-led \u2060services \u200bas well as business at global capacity centres. <\/p>\n<p>Nasscom expects tech workforce to reach 5.95 million in FY26 <\/p>\n<p>Nasscom President Rajesh Nambiar said the IT industry continues to be a net job generator. Nambiar expects the Tech sector \u200cto add 135,000 jobs on a net basis, taking the total headcount to \u200c5.95 million in \u200bFY26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IT sector in India is in the eye of the storm, given the global rout on fears of AI-led disruption. Fears of job loss is one of the cardinal concerns. However, the IT sector industry body Nasscom predicts that India\u2019s technology sector is expected to grow 6.1% to $315 billion revenue in FY26 and remain around that level in FY27. According to Reuters, Nasscom said that the growth will be driven by artificial intelligence-led \u2060services \u200bas well as business at global capacity centres. Nasscom expects tech workforce to reach 5.95 million in FY26 Nasscom President Rajesh Nambiar said the [&hellip;]<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994751","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=994751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}