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Where are the jobs?

Sir, — This has reference to your Editorial "Software challenges" (June 15). Experts say that the retrenchment of Indian InfoTech engineers in the U.S. was long expected. The Government is now faced with the problem of accommodating those who are coming back. Even as the U.S. Government hiked the number of H1B visas for IT workers in the past two years, there has been a gradual but steady disbanding of Indian software professionals from the IT sector in that country.

Post-September 11, almost 80 per cent of the software professionals have been shown the door. The demand for H1B visas is declining day-by-day. Given the present scenario, the All-India Council for Technical Education has given clearance to open 37 new engineering colleges and this will add 7,000 more seats to the existing number. That means the total number of engineering colleges will go up to 216. The fate of these students, particularly those from the computer stream, will be a big question mark.

Raghu Chandra Parsa,
Secundrabad, A.P.

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