Impact of Policies of Trump on IT Industry of India

Abstract

India is the fastest growing economy with a democratic political system. She is worlds leader in Information Technology Industry. It has annual turnover of $154 billion and employs about 19 million people. It was expected to become a US $225 billion industry by 2020. But, this target is to be reviewed in the light of visa restrictions and control over outsourcing announced by the US President Donald Trump. Indias software services sector is bracing for the consequences of new US President Donald Trump action against outsourcing of jobs. Trump has signed an order to block entry of people, including highly qualified professionals, from seven Muslim-majority nations. In the present paper researcher has tried to study impact trumps policy on Indian IT industry through survey of IT Student, IT Faculty and IT Professional. First part of paper covers Indian IT industry scenario and challenges due to trumps policy based on various secondary data and second part of paper is based on primary research conducted through structured questionnaire from various respondent. From the study it is finds that concluded that there is no major relation with respondent category and various variable of trumps IT policy on Indian IT industry.

Keywords: Impact of trump policy, Indian IT industry, ITes, Trump policy.

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