India high-tech industry out of workers
Published: April 6, 2007, By Tim Sullivan, Associated
Press Writer sourced from www.boston.com
Female employees walk to attend their classes at the training center of Infosys
Technologies sprawling corporate campus in Mysore, India, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2007.
In the United States and Europe, India may appear to have a bottomless supply of
cheap, educated workers just looking for ways to soak up more outsourced Western
jobs. But things look far different in India, where industry is spending hundreds
of millions of dollars in a frantic attempt to make sure its profit-making high-tech
machine fueled by its immense English-speaking talent pool keeps producing.