According to studies conducted by NASSCOM and leading
business Intelligence Company, McKinsey & Co. the Indian IT/BPO
segment is expected to employ over 1.1 million Indians by the year 2008.
Market research shows that in terms of job creation, the ITES-BPO
industry is growing at over 50 percent. In the financial year 2003-2004,
ITES-BPO companies were the largest recruiters in the IT/ITES sector,
adding a total of about 70,000 jobs.
An estimated 70,000 new Jobs expected in 2005 in the field pf ITES.
Plus there will be additional hiring to replace industry attrition that
is around 25%. On the other hand BPO and outsourcing services would
generate around 1, 25,000 new Jobs in 2005. McKinsey & Co. predicts
global market for IT-enabled services to be over $140 billion by 2008.
In that the opportunity for India will be around $ 17 Billion.