IBM India will hire 3,000 more
employees to expand its Kolkata centre operations over the
next 18 months.
"We have already hired 700 and the number will reach
3,000 over the next one and a half years in the new facility
at Rajarhat," IBM VP (global delivery) Amitabh Ray said today.
IBM has 4,000 employees in the three existing facilities
in the city. Post expansion of the fourth facility the total
strength of IBM for Kolkata operations would rise to 7,000.
Kolkata has the second largest pool of employees after
Bangalore. The present workforce strength of IBM now stands at
43,000 as of June.
IBM India Managing Director Shanker Annaswamy said the
attrition rate in Kolkata was minimal which encouraged the
company to rapidly expand in the east.
IBM has tieup with IIT Delhi and Bangalore for global
innovation mission. In West Bengal, IBM has relations with
IIT-Kharagpur for deep computing visualisation lab. It also
has a `centre for mobile computing`, a centre of excellence
for wireless and sensor technology with Jadavpur University.
Speaking at the inauguration of IBM`s fourth facility,
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee requested
IBM to start a training centre or finishing school to create
it students as per industry requirement.
Bureau Report
