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'India's IT sec to remain competitive despite talent crunch'

Global shortage of talent in IT
PTI | September 09 2010

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Despite a shortage of talent in the Information Technology sector in India, the country would remain competitive at least for the next 5 to 10 years, a top official of Infosys said here today.

"Globally there is a shortage of IT talent...it is there even in the United States and also in India. But India will continue to be competitive for at least the next five to 10 years," Infosys CEO and Managing Director Kris S Gopalakrishnan told reporters here.

Asked whether the US market was passing stringent laws to restrict Indian companies setting up off shore facilities in US, he said the market there is one of the most open in the world, a reason why Indian companies have most of their business coming from there.

"I don't want to say the United States is unfair and we are fair.. it could be vice versa.. there are several instances that our own policies are not fair. But both of us (US and India) have to work together to increasing bilateral trade so that there is benefit to all participants," he said.

The Infosys CEO said India has to put across its views on how the two nations can go together. "We want bilateral trade to grow and India has certain strengths, particularly on IT services... we can take it up through industry bodies like CII, FICCI and NASSCOM," he added.

Vice-Chairman of Cognizant Technology Solutions Lakshmi Narayanan said they were not concerned about stringent norms from the United States.

He was reacting to media reports that Ohio state has banned offshoring of software services to countries like India.

"This is not something new and has been happening in the past also. But from industry perspective, from our company's perspective, we are not unduly concerned about it. We believe that the talent required for doing jobs in the private and government sectors is something we have to focus."

However, Narayanan said this was a passing phase after the global recession. "Once they (US) move to the growing state, investments will start coming in and then things will come back to normal," he said.

He also said companies need to acquire the best talent to remain competitive. "We have a policy to recruit the best talent, wherever it is available," he said.

 

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