CII inks MoU to promote outsourcing

The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the International Association of Outsourcing professionals (IAOp), for jointly promoting India’s outsourcing industry by identifying the strengths of the specific organisations.

CII will encourage the ability to use outsourcing as an effective management tool across industry sectors. It will also assist member organisations that provide outsourcing services in information technology (IT) and business process outsourcing (BPO) areas and other areas including healthcare, manufacturing and financial services, in their business development and operational delivery capabilities.

Ganesh Natarajan, chairman CII National Committee, on IT said, “We are trying to create an opportunity for global best practices in outsourcing in to be brought to the entire services sector in India and we hope to see at least $5 billion of this happening India in the next ten years.”

“CII and the West Bengal government together would use the state’s existing infrastructure to set up training centres. IT companies like Cisco and Zensar would be partners in the project to create connectivity for satellite education, among other plans. The aim is to train around 200 graduates in the first phase in skill development,” Natarajan added. Certifications by respective companies or organisations would be provided on completion of the course.

Debesh Das, IT minister of West Bengal, said, “There is a need to formulate ways to reformulate ways to penetrate IT education in the districts by opening training centre’s, strategies to improve IT skills as well as flexibility in their design and delivery so that a larger variety of people can be targeted.”