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Job Opportunities in Indian Government Sector:

Indian is an ideal region for the job opportunists. According to the economic times, the union budget (2018-19) mentioned 2.53 lakh central government jobs in the two previous months. The finance minister Arun Jaitley announced to throw 35.05 Lakh job opportunities as on 1^st March 2018. If you compare this figure with 32.52 Lakh employees, the difference of around 2.53 Lakh career opportunities would reflect. Of course, this difference would be ahead of the figures shown in 2016.

Moreover, the central government department would add on about 2.27 lakh jobs between 2016 and 2017. There are more government departments that would appreciate in the next financial year (FY). These include the Department of Agriculture (3,996+1,944), Cooperation and Farmers’ Welfare, Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying, Fisheries (3,861), the Department of Atomic Energy (36,918), the Ministry of Civil Aviation (1197), Ministry of Culture (7675+3024), Home Ministry (5,836), Police Department (11,25,093), the Ministry of External Affairs (9672+1196), the Ministry of Environment, Forest, Climate Change (5119), the Mines Ministry (8562) and the Minority Affairs Ministry (772).

However, it’s true that the natives possess the right to be employed first. But, the lucrative perks take the brilliant brains out of this country. The job, perks & future security tempts an aspirant to hook to it. Like a native, an NRI can also think alike. He/she might give the selection in the Civil Services India would have in any corner of the mind.

Can they apply for the same? Let’s check below.

Do all NRIs eligible for government jobs in India?

The non-residents are the Indians who lived abroad for 180 days more or less. They can be a person of Indian origin (PIOs) or Overseas Citizen of India (OCI). The former one is already a discarded service now.

So! Are they eligible to be deployed on any government designation?

Well, its answer is pretty straightforward. Those who have not renounced their Indian citizenship and have its passport, they are eligible. They can have millions of career opportunities in India’s government sector, telecom, technology and manufacturing sectors.

Many of the Indians surrender their citizenship to acquire the residency of a foreign nation. It’s not illegal. Neither is it unethical. Anyone can renounce his citizenship. But those who retains or acquire later, they qualify for the government job exams. Meanwhile, the age, education and experience are also the metrics those should be equivalent to its fixed criteria.

What are the steps involve in the government jobs appointment?

The government, here, is impartial when it comes to the conducting an employment exam. Be it any NRI or citizen, it has the same hurdles for all. Usually, there are multiple steps in the selection. The biggest challenge is to come out as a winner from multiple steps that are applications, document verification, examination, interview, re-interview. He/she should come across all these hurdles through physical presence.

Are you thinking about the next section? Yeah! It defines the name of the sectors that tend to come out with massive counts of vacancy in these sectors.

Sectors:

1. Healthcare: The biotechnology, contract research & manufacturing, clinical research and pharmaceutics combined to form this sector. The E&Y report valued the biotechnology sector worth $4 billion in 2010-11.The Indian CRAMS sector generated value worth $7.6 billion in 2012. The recent US immigration law amendments have turned millions of heads toward India. The H1B visa is basically an instrumental document to get deployed there. But the stringent immigration laws have converted the aspiration into mere a dream. Now, the highly educated like PhD, doctors and analysts are not permitted to go there. The Trump administration has conditioned it with the ‘American First’ rule in every job. It directly is benefitting the Indian healthcare sector. The skilled workforce and healthcare professionals would hunt for the career opportunities here. Thereby, it would scale up exponentially.

Also, the NRIs who would be deported on visa expiry can find better jobs here.

2. Infrastructure: This sector began showing its prominence after India’s Eleventh 5 year plan, as per the Mckinsey Report. Investment in this sector showed 4.9 percent GDP growth in 2002-03. It exceeded and showcased around 7.2 percent in 2011-12. It reached around 10 percent of GDP in 2016-17.

Being a developing nation, India has thousands of jobs in building ports, roads, nuclear plants and private companies. The Make In India project of the Modi-led government has accelerated its progress. Also, the India Salary Benchmark report of Michael Page also applauded its extra-ordinary contribution to the economic growth. The footprints of Japan’s RTRJ in the development of urban transport system appear as a breakthrough. It is so because this standard would be hired to eliminate the chaotic Kolkata’s transport system.

Therefore, the highly skilled non-residents can be the foremost choice to employ for this sector.

3. Telecom: The boom in this sector won’t be it unless there would be reliance. It is the forerunner on the plethora of the telecom world’s mobile broadband penetration. Also, the digitization drive has added rapid pace to it. Since 1990s, it shows the heights of the market liberalization. The world’s second largest mobile user base with over 1183.04 million users (till September 2017) is enough to impress the non-resident diaspora. It can seek an exhaustive number of vacancies in this sector.
4. Government: There is no fixed share of NRIs defined in the government sector. But as aforesaid, all those who have the Indian passport would be eligible to take part in the UPSC exams. They can become an IAS, IPS, IFS and many more reputed officers.

Their citizenship would be the prime factor to make them eligible for the same. Apart from that, they must look into the age limit and qualification criteria.

5. Information Technology: It is emerging as the largest cost effective outsourcing country in the world. The competitive ecosystem can be seen in the market here where Reliance once burst the monopoly of Airtel & Vodaphone.

The business landscape is reshaping due to interception of machine learning and AI (Artificial Intelligence). Software product, aggregators, fintech and eCommerce industry will likely to have explosive demand of the technology professionals. Digital transformation, data security, data migration and cyber bullying would be fought with the highly skilled IT engineers.  Like their demand, the salary package would go sky high, i.e. upto 26% to 30% on an average. Therefore, the immigrants from this country can have a prosperous career here.