The digital skill gap that may trip the IT juggernaut in days to come

NITI Aayog recommendations cite the need for greater industry-academia collaboration to meet skill demand

Even though Indian IT firms are eyeing to be specialists in digital technologies catering to global corporates, there is going to be a huge shortage of skills in emerging technologies such as analytics, big data, cloud, artificial intelligence (AI) and automation in days to come. This is expected to create a huge bottleneck on their path of getting access to right talent.

The NITI Aayog National Strategy for AI released this week noted that India will face a demand-supply gap of 200,000 data analytics professionals by 2020. Further, Gartner reported that by 2020, 60 per cent of Indian companies looking