India should press for greater people movement at WTO: Mittal

Industry leader Sunil Mittal today said India must press at WTO for greater movement of professionals in global services market for a large share of 500 million jobs that are expected to be created worldwide by 2022.
Speaking at the inaugural function of Global Exhibition on Services (GES), Mittal said as India's economy grows, the services industry will continue to keep its pole position in economic activities.
"India, to my mind, is competent to serve the globe ... I would urge that in a bilateral and multi-lateral discussions at the WTO, movement of people needs to be settled in favour of India.

"We need to have that as part of the world trade agenda. India must take the lion's share of the 500 million jobs that are going to be created globally by 2022," Mittal, the founder and chairman of Bharti Enterprises, said.
Quoting a report, he said a shortage of 18 million skilled workers is expected by 2020.
"The only pool of young people lies in Saudi Arabia, some of the Middle-East countries and few African countries. But they are not prepared as Indians are ... We travel well, we are accepted globally very well and that makes India truly a place to source world's workforce," he added.

Mittal further said India needs to train 500 million people by 2022 and one million are joining the job market every month after month.
"If we can convert this workforce for both domestic and global markets there will be no looking back," he said, and added that country's demographic dividend is going to take India into the pole position in the global services market.
Mittal also requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was present on the occasion, to add a new slogan 'serve from India, served in India' in his 'Make in India' campaign.