Will raise skill gap issue with Guj CM: Nasscom

IT industry body Nasscom will take up the issue of "skill gap" hampering the growth of the industry in the state with Chief Minister Vijay Rupani.
"Tomorrow our discussion with chief minister is mainly going to be around skill gap. It is not that we don't have millions of youth in Gujarat, it is the question if do we have the right talent," Nasscom Chairman C P Gurnani told reporters here today.
He was in the city to attend NASSCOM's two-day executive meeting which will take place on September 30 - October 1.
Gurnani, who early in the day visited some prominent institutes in the city, including the National Institute of Design and Gujarat Technological University, said he is impressed with talent in the institutes, but expressed dissatisfaction with the infrastructure and curriculum.

Gurnani, who is also MD and CEO of Tech Mahindra, expressed surprise that despite entrepreneurial spirit inherent in the state, it has failed on IT front and did not emerge as a strong outsourcing destination.
"Clearly Gujarat never became the outsourcing destination. There are forty seven companies in the state, but none of them is actually of the scale that you could say that companies like HCL, no large companies are headquartered here," he added.
"If government becomes a sponsor, we have a huge way forward, particularly by leveraging the startup and entrepreneurial spirit that actually flow in Gujarat," he said.