Outsourcing is here to stay, feel IT experts

Outsourcing of IT jobs is here to stay, but NTBs could play spoilsport for India and other countries, IT experts said on Saturday.

Outsourcing of IT jobs is here to stay, but non-tariff barriers could play spoilsport for India and other countries that have benefited from this phenomenon, IT experts said on Saturday.

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Speaking at a workshop on 'IT and BPO - opportunities and challenges' organised by Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry on Saturday, PriceWaterhouse Coopers India managing director Roopen Roy said India needed to be aware of China's growing challenge to its dominance in IT outsourcing.

He said India would have to move up the value chain to withstand competition from countries like China.

Roy also warned that opponents of outsourcing could put up non-tariff barriers on the pretext that intellectual property was not safe in India.