Second grade Indian cities to account for 40 per cent IT jobs by 2018 - by ADDI_Jo
Second grade Indian cities are likely to account for about 40 per cent of the total projected IT-BPO jobs by 2018, if the government in tandem with the industry provides a conducive environment.
However, big cities such as Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kolkata, National Capital Region (NCR) and Pune are still the preferred destinations for setting up an IT or a BPO company, a NASSCOM-AT Kearney study on `Location roadmap for IT-BPO growth' said.
These centres are closely followed by Ahmedabad, Kochi, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Coimbatore, Indore, Jaipur, Lucknow, Madurai, Mangalore, Nagpur, Thiruvananthapuram, Vadodara, Tiruchirapalli and Visakhapatnam, it said.
In my opinion, with the maturing industry, it is imperative to expand the geographical spread of IT-BPO growth to enable more balanced economic development of the country, lower migration across cities and reduce the burden on the stretched infrastructure in the current hubs.