Mumbai: India's huge human resource pool has catalysed the blistering growth of the IT Industry.
As talks of hiring employees through quotas make their way to the corporate corridors, corporates have been forced to act before the government's bark becomes a bite.
And to tackle this issue, corporates like Infosys have already come out with a solution.
The IT major has embarked on a pilot project of training 60 graduates from backward communities in English and job related skills for their BPO arm, Progeon.
The success of the project is expected to lead to the expansion of the plan. "We have hired 45 of them and will be looking at replicating them in Infosys," says Director, Education and Research Department, Infosys, Mohandas Pai.
If things go as planned, Infosys will be followed by many others because experts feel that training to bring backward classes up to the mark is a better idea compared to straight job reservation.
"No interviewer asks about your caste or background in an interview. On that basis, no jobs are lost or gained. No discrimination is done. The bigger problem is people reaching that stage. Those who can reach that stage from any section and get hired on merit is a better solution than quotas," says S Chandrasekhar, VP, HRD, CAP gemini.
The industry faces a shortage of 5 lakh skilled professionals by 2010. This, the industry feels is a bigger issue which the Government should be addressing by increasing the quality of education at all levels.
(With Jency Jacob)
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