Friday, March 24, 2006

News: LogicaCMG India plans to hire 1,000

(TNN 24/03/2006) New Delhi - Software services firm LogicaCMG plans to add 1,000 people in India by this year end to service its global business divisions. This will increase LogicaCMG’s workforce in India to over 3,000.

LogicaCMG is doing many works from India. Our expansion plan is based on the requirements of our global affiliates. Based on their projections, the headcount in India should be close to 3,000 by the end of current year, Rahul Patwardhan , CEO of LogicaCMG India told ET.

To accommodate new recruits, the Indian arm of the Anglo-Dutch IT major plans to expand its GSD centre in Bangalore. The company refused to divulge investment details. Orders are flowing in from the UK, Netherlands and Asia Pacific, he added.

LogicaCMG services almost all geographies, including Germany and Australia. The GSD is LogicaCMG’s fifth largest facility. It is the fastest growing unit of the company.

About 1,500 employees of LogicaCMG in India are into applications management, BPO services and infrastructure management, while 350 are into product engineering for telecom and finance sector. We are implementing the phase II of our infrastructure expansion programme in Bangalore with a capacity for 850 people . It should be ready by September , Mr Patwardhan said.

We are are evaluating other cities too for expansion, he said, refusing to divulge details. LogicaCMG has been focused on the finance and telecom sectors in India. Its clients include RBI, IndusInd Bank and UTI Bank. LogicaCMG’s New Delhi division supports its telecom customers , including BSNL, Bharti, MTNL and Spice. We were focused only on financial services and telecoms earlier.

However , we are now servicing all market sectors of LogicaCMG like transport, energy and utilities, and government, Mr Patwardhan said. In the BPO segment, LogicaCMG offers services in HR outsourcing , payroll, finance and accounting and some middle office functions such as claims processing.

We are not planning to increase call centre type of work, he added.

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