The motion on the floor of the house:
BPO's are India's pride
Points that came out of today's discussion are:
Ayes
* Increased employment opportunities esp in rural areas with jobs created expected to reach 1 million by 2010.
* Independence esp. financial for young adults
* Source of FDI
* Helps tackle the problem of poverty and mass unemployment
* Provides financial independence and avenues of sustenance
women esp in some rural areas.(eg of a company which
hires women from rural rajasthan only).
* Promotes english as a lingua franca not just in the global sense but also for people from different parts of our country.
Nayes
* Promotes a culture of westernization and consumerism
* Creates a work culture of hiring and firing
* Diverts the youngsters from focussing on further education and towards other careers with the lure of quick money.
* Affects the biological cycle of employees as work demands long hours at night at most places
* Take 'pride' in our national languages and culture more than just the knowledge of english as the benchmark
* It affects the social and family life of employees.
* Creates a negative ripple effect on other sectors of society.
* Makes us increasing mechanical in our approach to life as one is expected to behave mechanically at work without any reactions to racial and other taunts.
* Creates a vacuum in other core sectors of the economy by luring professionals with the promise of easy money but job satisfaction in general falls very quickly.
BPO's are India's pride
Points that came out of today's discussion are:
Ayes
* Increased employment opportunities esp in rural areas with jobs created expected to reach 1 million by 2010.
* Independence esp. financial for young adults
* Source of FDI
* Helps tackle the problem of poverty and mass unemployment
* Provides financial independence and avenues of sustenance
women esp in some rural areas.(eg of a company which
hires women from rural rajasthan only).
* Promotes english as a lingua franca not just in the global sense but also for people from different parts of our country.
Nayes
* Promotes a culture of westernization and consumerism
* Creates a work culture of hiring and firing
* Diverts the youngsters from focussing on further education and towards other careers with the lure of quick money.
* Affects the biological cycle of employees as work demands long hours at night at most places
* Take 'pride' in our national languages and culture more than just the knowledge of english as the benchmark
* It affects the social and family life of employees.
* Creates a negative ripple effect on other sectors of society.
* Makes us increasing mechanical in our approach to life as one is expected to behave mechanically at work without any reactions to racial and other taunts.
* Creates a vacuum in other core sectors of the economy by luring professionals with the promise of easy money but job satisfaction in general falls very quickly.