12-15-13
P.1 Coov
India is the 2nd highest populated country in the world right behind China. With that many people in your country you could or will have lots of poverty in your citizens, but since the IT revolution has been in India that is changing quickly. I strongly believe that the IT revolution has mostly been a positive event for India because it has been a large factor for the economic growth of India for the last 20+ years. The well-educated citizens who have been trained in the IT field very well have accomplished this. They all go through this training because of the high paying jobs that are given to the best-trained students; this workforce also creates a globally good image for India.
India has become a leader in the IT revolution for many possible reasons. First, India has developed a very strong IT training institute in Bangalore. Tens of thousands of students have attended and learned how to speak fluent English and be proficient users of Information Technology. People are trained both for IT services and business information outsourcing for the call centers. Second, the pay scale for these highly trained workers is significantly lower than the pay scale for the same workers in the United States or Europe. This makes it a lot cheaper to outsource jobs to these workers in India. Because of this well-trained workforce, companies from the United States have brought their resources to India because of how cheap it is to outsource the IT services there.
India has increased service export during 2000-2012, it has estimated from 8 billion to 60 billion for the first decade in this century. Another piece of evidence is that foreign investments in India have increased at a similarly high rate; this is all possible because of the high quality Indian workforce.
Many have and still will say that the IT revolution has mostly been a bad thing; a woman in the video “The Other Side of Outsourcing” says “Don’t make us part of your ways of life,