India's largest IT company  Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) have reportedly designed a robust hiring plan, hiring more than 40,000 freshers from campuses in the country in the financial year 2021-22.

The company, the largest employer in the private sector with a base of over 5 lakh employees, had hired 40,000 graduates from campuses last year and will do better on that number, its chief of global human resources Milind Lakkad  said. He said the COVID pandemic-related restrictions do not pose any difficulties in hiring and added that last year, a total of 3.60 lakh freshers had appeared for an entrance test virtually. "From the campus in India, we hired 40,000 last year. We will continue to hire and hire 40,000 or more this year in India," Lakkad told, adding that lateral hiring will also be "robust" this year.

TCS will also do better on the 2,000 trainees hired from American campuses last year, he said, without sharing an exact number. He said, said a lot of planning goes into hiring from campuses and it is not 'just-in-time' hiring when a business deal gets signed up, and typically it takes over three months before a resource gets on a project.

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