Rural BPOs Next big thing in IT

Rural BPOs are the next revolution in Indian Information Technology sector to happen, as the industry gears up to achieve $50 billion
export target this year, Nasscom member Ashank Desai said

"The host of rural BPOs that are coming up in the country, is the next revolution in industry to happen, rural BPOs is about creating jobs," Desai, who is also the Chairman of Mastek, said at IIM-A confluence here today.

"Rural BPOs will reduce the cost for Indian IT companies first and later on globally," Desai said, adding, such BPOs are coming up in Karnataka and Haryana.

"Over the last 15 years we have increased the business size of industry almost 800 times, in 1990 our exports were 100 million this year we will do 50 billion, we have created two million jobs in the country directly, and another 6-8 million indirect jobs," Desai said.

"First the internet revolution, then the telecom and BPO's, and now we are talking that business is running away urban to rural area," Desai said.

"Rural BPOs are about creating jobs. This will reduce the cost for Indian IT company's first," Desai said.

The BPOs are expected to impact 8 million people or 40 million families, and the enabler for all this is entrepreneurship, he added.

A lot of wealth creation has happened as the Indian IT industry took giant strides and passed through several revolutions to reach this point.

"15 per cent of Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE's) market cap is of IT companies," Desai said, adding "We have created wealth for the shareholders."

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Rural BPOs Next big thing in IT