Wipro needs 3000 BPO professionals

Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and McKinsey in Mumbai organized a Forum workshop on “Competing Globally” on September 5-6, 2003. Wipro chief Azim Premji took podium on Friday and announced that the company needs to recruit around 3000 service people for its BPO operations besides 6000 engineering pros. BPO in India is posting some great performance and churned out to be more than $2 billion industry in no time. India enjoys the majority of offshore BPO as well ITES work generated by the western corporate market.

The ITES and BPO in India is expected to register an annual growth of 50% for coming 3-4 years – as per NASSCOM. For 2002-03 India BPO Industry posted a growth of 59% and the industry players are fully charged with the progress. BPO in India are accessing as well as developing new value based programs and software’s to cater the requirement of the industry.