For Accenture, the last 36 months in India have been extremely
eventful, with the IT services provider adding about 16,500 people as
on February 2006, from barely 1,000 prior to that, reports Business
Line.
The USD 15.5 billion IT services major expects to increase this number
by approximately 9,000 this year. It has set a long-term plan of
growing the headcount in the region, including India and China, to
50,000 people by 2008. The company has 24,000 people; of them 17,500
are based in India.