THE Government is setting aside $125 million to implement relief measures to keep the infocomm industry growing in these bad times.

It will strengthen three help schemes to help up to 10,000 IT professionals keep their jobs and to train the next generation of such professionals.

Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts Lee Boon Yang, speaking at the IT Leader Awards last night, listed three schemes that will be beefed up:

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