Keeping salaries low is key to keeping offshoring attractive and there are those that say facilities and jobs - for IT, software development and business process outsourcing (BPO) - will go to other locations the more successful India becomes.
Multinational corporations with captive BPO subsidiaries in India will now have their non-core operations exempt from income tax. Despite this the BPO market in India is booming and the latest figures this week from Indian IT trade group Nasscom...
To put it into context, the Indian city of Bangalore alone currently employs around 60,000 people in its BPO call centres. The nearshore call centre market is more mature in the Baltics, Poland, Czech Republic, Morocco and Hungary, but Datamonitor...
The competence exam has been launched by Indian IT industry body Nasscom and an initial three-month pilot will run in Bangalore, Delhi and Mumbai covering 36 key IT and business process outsourcing (BPO) companies and 15,000 graduate recruits.
Just last month silicon.com reported from India's high-tech capital Bangalore where IT companies are putting pressure on the government to improve the city's creaking and over-crowded infrastructure. He said in the report: "The skills and quality...
Click on the links below to see photo galleries of the cities and companies visited.♦ Satyam's IT campus
♦ Hyderabad's tech parks
♦ Bringing tech to rural India
♦ High-tech on the streets of Pune
♦ Pune - the new Bangalore?
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