International consultancy agency PwC will rent round 30,000 folks in India within the subsequent couple of years, firm Chairman Bob Moritz mentioned on Friday.

In a panel dialogue on the International Enterprise Summit organised by the Financial Occasions, he mentioned India generally is a provider of that expertise to the world, due to its expertise developments and the usage of AI (synthetic intelligence), which the remainder of the world would not have that ability set.

“So, as we speak we have got about 31,000 folks. Simply so we’re clear, and a few of that is been reported on this, and our plan is to rent one other 30,000 within the subsequent couple of years. “That is the boldness,” Moritz mentioned when requested in regards to the firm’s headcount in India.

Schneider Electrical Chairman & CEO Jean-Pascal Tricoire additionally mentioned he was “tremendous optimistic about India”.

“There isn’t any different place on the earth the place we now have invested most, greater than in India over the previous 20 years…India is as we speak our third largest enterprise on the earth after the US and China,” he mentioned.

Additional, he mentioned, “We consider in India, we’re dedicated to India now. As we all know, India is definitely on the core of every thing we do.”

Tricoire mentioned India additionally has a number of potential within the clear power sector.

“I see a number of potential right here as a result of when you have a look at digitisation, IoT (Web of Issues), good buildings, good ‘every thing’, which different international locations (ought to) higher do to digitise every thing than India,” he famous. On electrification, he mentioned India is “extraordinarily effectively outfitted” to deal with a mixture of energies, together with photo voltaic and hydrogen.

62% of employers surveyed throughout India intend to rent brisker, exhibits survey