Giving thrust to ‘Digital India’ programme, the Department of Information Technology (IT) and e-governance will start Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) centres before September 2018 in the selected districts. After the formal inauguration of two BPOs, the department has accelerated the process of establishing BPO units across the State.
Union IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on June 4 inaugurated two BPOs here in the capital city. Opening the door of opportunity for youths, BPO centers will be started in Deogarh, Dhanbad, Bokaro, Jamshedpur and Hazaribagh districts as per the agreement.
“All major documentation work has been completed. Before September 2018, all the BPO centres in the selected districts will be made functional. Two BPO centers each will be opened in Jamshedpur, Hazaribagh including Deogarh while seven more BPOs will be started here in Capital City by September. Further, the IT Department is attempting hard to expand the project in other districts too,” said Director, Department of IT and e-governance, Umesh Prasad Sah.
A total of 1700 seats have been allocated to Jharkhand under the central government scheme for starting 48,300 BPOs across the country which would hire around 4.50 lakh eligible candidates in the time to come. “As per target, over 5100 employees will be appointed altogether covering all districts. The BPOs function in three shifts; in accordance to that each BPO centre will hire the staffs. The majority of the work force will be from Jharkhand and mostly women will be given opportunity in these centers,” Sah further added.
Meanwhile, the recently inaugurated BPOs, Rtik Printech Private limited at Kadru and Sri Publication and Stationers Pvt. ltd at Ashok Nagar would initially engage approximately 50 people each. Further scaling up the employees strength, the two recently inaugurated BPOs will recruit staffs up to 150 or even more.
Considering special incentives for human resource, nearly 50 per cent females will be recruited in the BPO centres. “Rs. 10,000 shall be paid for new IT/ITES/BPO professionals located within the physical limits of Jharkhand. For differently abled persons, additional amount of Rs. 5000 will be paid, if selected to work,” Sah added.
With the objectives to create employment opportunities for nearly 15,000 people by promoting IT industry particularly facilitating setup BPO/BPM operations in districts of Jharkhand by 2021, the Union IT Minister during his visit to Jharkhand had asked the officials of the department to start at least one BPO centre in each district of the State. “Brainstorming is being done on this, besides the pool of talented resource personnel, adequate space is required to start a BPO centre with all the latest technological equipments. At present, we are just focusing on the selected districts. Expansion plans will be considered later,” Sah asserted.