Pharmaceutical and healthcare sector is likely to witness more than 20 percent growth in hiring this year and likely to create about 1,34,000 jobs this year, according to the India Skills Report 2016. The pharma industry employs about 5.5-5.7 lakh people and has enabled significantly in creating a vast talent pool of researchers, scientists, doctors and project managers, the report opined. <br/><br/>This increase can be attributed to the initiatives by the Government as good investment in the pharma, life science and healthcare sectors is showing a positive sign, it analysed. The need of skilled manpower in the pharmaceutical industry varies from Research and Development, Quality Assurance (QA), manufacturing to sales and marketing.The survey was done among 150 employers and 5.2 lakh students in all sectors during July to October 2015.