New FDI norms lead to more jobs in India

Investments lead to employment, and one of the concrete leads in this direction is the increased FDI inflows at US$ 55.46 bn in financial year 2015-16, as against US$ 36.04 bn in 2013-14. This is the highest ever FDI inflow for a particular financial year. But how can a working professional capitalize on this opportunity personally?

The radical liberalization of the FDI regime announced by the government recently has further encouraged local entrepreneurship, global investment firms to invest in startups as well as global IT companies, such as Google, Apple Inc., Amazon, etc. to expand their businesses and networks in the country leading to income and employment growth.

"India, with its recent radical reforms in the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) regime, will become the most open economy on the global platform for FDI. The decision of liberalizing FDI policy by putting most sectors on the automatic route for foreign direct investment is going to be highly constructive in enhancing investment, income, employment and career opportunities in the country." says Nilanjan Roy, Head of Strategy, Times Business Solutions.

The Digital India mission is expected to create over five crore jobs in various sectors. Also, the project will facilitate Training to around 1 crore students for IT sector by 2020. Undoubtedly, Digital India is benefitting working professionals with a host of career opportunities and jobs.

However, as an individual, how does a competent professional ensure that they are making the best of this situation? Will their career decision launch them into a high growth trajectory?

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