WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 2004
GE Capital to hire 1,500 people
SUMALI MOITRA
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
KOLKATA: GE Capital International Services (GECIS) will establish a camp office in Kolkata within the next 45 days to oversee the establishment of its proposed remote processing operation in the city that would employ 1,500 people initially.
Company officials also intend to visit Kolkata from June 23-25 to hold detailed talks with the authorities on the assistance it would need to start its facility here - its fifth in India - by March 2005.
These plans were communicated at a meeting West Bengal IT minister Manab Mukherjee and state IT secretary G D Gautama had with GECIS representatives at Delhi on Tuesday.
GECIS - established in 1997 - is the largest shared services environment in India employing over 11,000 people at its existing facilities at Gurgaon, Hyderabad , Bangalore and Jaipur.
"We are confident that GECIS's starting operations in Kolkata will lead to more of the big call centre operators also choosing to establish a base here," Gautama said.
HSBC Electronic Data Processing (India), engaged in customer service and data processing for HSBC world-wide, has recently evinced interest in setting up a 1,500-seat call centre in Kolkata by March next year. Wipro Spectramind is likely to start operations in the city next month.
Gautama said the state IT department also made a presentation on the progress made by West Bengal in the telemedicine arena at a seminar organised jointly by Ficci and the World Bank on Tuesday. "Senior World Bank officials, including those of the International Finance Corporation, and leading corporates appreciated the steps we had taken in this regard," he said.
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