Number Of Registered IT Companies Increase To 135 Percent

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Number of registered IT companies increase to 135 percent

Pakistan have 1600 registered IT companies with increase of 135% in registered IT companies that produces an average of 20,000 IT graduates and engineers annually and IT and IT-enabled services amount to $ 2.8 billion.

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 26th Jun, 2018 ) :Pakistan have 1600 registered IT companies with increase of 135% in registered IT companies that produces an average of 20,000 IT graduates and engineers annually and IT and IT-enabled services amount to $ 2.8 billion.

Talking to APP, managing director Pakistan Software Export board (PSEB) Syed Ali Abbas Hassani said, 135% increase in registered IT companies and 150 % remittances increases from 2012-13 to 2017-18 has wittenessed.

He said, income tax exemption to PSEB registered IT Startups for 3 years, with no minimum or withholding tax, incentivizing entrepreneurship and innovation in the country and new incentives for IT industry would facilitate the IT sector to enhance the growth of the IT Industry in Pakistan.

While telling the details of IT industry's participation at International forum he said, PSEB promoted the IT industry internationally by participating in 14 International exhibitions/ events along with 63 member companies in USA, Spain, Australia, China, UAE and Kenya He said we have Successfully organized 6 outbound trade delegations to USA, Canada, UK, Australia, China, and UAE along with 47 member companies and hosted 5 inbound delegations from Australia, Japan, Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey.

He said, we have enabled 16 IT companies to be certified in ISO 27001, 10 in ISO 20000 and 11 in CMMi, Trained 20 Lead Auditors on ISO 27001/20000 and 4 on CMMi,Trained 100 Lead Implementers for ISO 27001/20000 and 31 for CMMi,Trained 100 executives of 60 IT companies & startups in business Planning along with 100 fresh graduates and provided on the job training to 3,800 ICT interns by placing them in the industry.

Further, Trained 200 IT graduates in emerging technologies: Game development, mobile apps, Agile, .NET and also initiated improvement in quality of graduates by placing 6 IT industry experts in HEC's National Curriculum Revision Committee (NCRC).