
Nasscom cuts IT export growth forecast to 8-10 pc for 2016-17. cisco.com Software association Nasscom today lowered IT export growth target to 8-10 per cent for 2016-17 amid global macroeconomic headwinds and the fallout of Britain's exit from the European Union. At the start of the year, Nasscom had projected 10-12 per cent growth rate for Indian software services, including the business process management, for the current fiscal. Global uncertainties like Brexit, post US election dynamics, currency volatility and slowdown in BFSI discretionary spend are all impacting growth, Nasscom President R Chandrashekhar said, adding that the short-term political and economic uncertainties could last over the next two quarters. Nasscom expects the incremental revenue addition to be between USD 8-10 billion in 2016-17, against USD 10 billion in 2015-16. Earlier this month, Chandrashekhar had told PTI that "a revision is clearly on the cards and it will be dow...