Industry experts at the meeting of Nasscom, India’s outsourcing alliance, said on Thursday that skills shortage was the biggest threat to the outsourcing industry’s blazing growth. ����� ������� �� ������ nasscom � ���������� ������ ������ ����� ������� � ���� ��� ������ �� ����� �� �������� �� ���� ��� ��� ��������� ������ ������ ������ ��� �������.

From ground zero I am observing several interesting effects of this shortage. �� ���� ����� ���� ��� ������ ������ �� ������ ���� ��� �����. For example one lady worked for us as a trainee. ���� ����� ��� ���� ������ ������� ��� ��� ���� �����. I was forced to let her go for serious lack of performance even as a trainee. ����� ���� ��� ������ �������� ��� ���� ��� ���� �� ������ ��� �����. I have been informed that she was hired by Infosys as well as IBM. ��� ����� ���� ������� �� ��� Infosys ���� �� ���� �� �� ��. It appears they are being forced to hire indiscriminately without much regard for quality. ����� ���� ������ ��� ������� ������� ��� ������ ������ �����. They just need warm bodies/headcount to bag new contracts. ���� ����� ��� ����� ������� / �� ��� ����� ���� �����.

Recently there was a newspaper article where outsourcing companies announced hiring B.Sc. �� ������ ������� ��� ���� �� ����� ������� ��� ����� ����� ����� ��������� ������ ������ ��������� students en-masse and train them. - �� ������ �������� ��� ���� ���. Companies like Infosys and Wipro have large training centers to compensate for lack of industry experince of the freshers. ����� ��� Infosys Wipro ����� ������ ������� ������� �� ��� ���� ����� ��experince ��������� ��� ����� �������.

These are sure signs of desperation in my book. ���� �� ��� ���� �� ������ ����� �� �����. I had seen the same thing at Silicon Valley in US during the dotcom era where even incompetent people were hired at exhorbitant prices. ��� �� ���� ����� ���� �� ���� �������� �� �������� ������� ���� ���� dotcom ���� ����� ��� ������ �� ����� exhorbitant �� �������.

Outsourcing industry at 23 billion dollars accounts for most of the country’s software and services industry. ���� ������� ������� �� 23 ����� ����� �� ������ ����� �� ��� ���������� ������ �������. It accounts for 5% of GDP and employs 1.2 million workers and growing over 30% per year (data from NYT). ����� 5 ٪ �� ������ ������ �������� ����� ��� 1�2 ����� ���� ������ ���� �� 30 ٪ �� �����) �� �������� nyt).

If it was upto me I would rather slow down the rate of growth than affect the quality of software developed. ���� ��� �� �� upto �� ��� �� ����� ���� ����� ��� ���� ��� ����� �������.