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What If the Government Paid You to Hire ft. Sanjeev Kumar Gupta

5 March 2026224 viewsTHE INNOVATORS & DISRUPTORS PODCAST

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🚀 The strongest tech ecosystems aren’t built by subsidies, they’re built by smart collaboration. In this conversation, Sanjeev Kumar Gupta shares how policy can actually strengthen emerging tech clusters, when industry leads and government enables. Through the Nipuna scheme, companies define the skills they need, design the training, and hire the talent, while the government supports the ecosystem by sharing up to 40% of the training cost. The result? 🔹 Better quality talent supply 🔹 Faster industry alignment 🔹 Mid-level professionals getting real upskilling pathways And here’s what’s powerful, when the “Come Back Home” initiative was launched for Mangalore and Mysore clusters, experienced professionals working abroad responded almost instantly. Not for discounts. Not for shortcut

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