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IT job losses and the govt's denial: Why is nobody taking responsibility?

From workforce realignment to rightsizing, IT industry is using jargon to justify job losses

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Karan Choudhury
Once the country’s pride, the Indian information technology sector is today mired in controversy and sadly no one seems to be taking responsibility. While jargons are being thrown around to justify the number of people losing jobs, nobody has offered an immediate solution that would help save the jobs of thousands of highly-skilled individuals.

Not just the sector, even the government is denying that jobs are being lost. Experts have attributed this to the ongoing ‘three years of the Modi government’ campaign as well as the numbers given out by industry body NASSCOM. Experts believe that job losses in the IT