MORE JOBS FOR INDIA!: The IT-enabled services sector is growing by leaps and bounds in India. More and more call centres and back-office operations are being shifted to India. And jobs are on the rise.

Forrester Research says that over the next 15 years, 3.3 million US services industry jobs and $136 billion in wages will move offshore to countries like India, Russia, China, and the Philippines. The IT industry will lead the initial overseas exodus.

Britain's Communication Workers Union has said that up to 200,000 jobs in British call centres could be shipped to India over the next 10 years.

In the near term, about 400,000 US jobs will move offshore by end of 2003, says Forrester. About 70 per cent of these - or 280,000 jobs - will come to India.

(L) Indian women work at a call centre in New Delhi.

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