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Protectionist attitude towards outsourcing wrong: British MPs
London, Feb 26: It will be `wholly wrong` to adopt a protectionist attitude regarding outsourcing by British companies to India, a 10-member all women Labour MPs` delegation has said after a visit to India.
London, Feb 26: It will be "wholly wrong" to adopt a protectionist attitude regarding outsourcing by British companies to India, a 10-member all women Labour MPs' delegation has said after a visit to India.
"The whole group felt that it will be wholly wrong to be protectionist on the issue of outsourcing which not only helps India but also the British companies," Dari Taylor, leader of the delegation, told newsmen in London on Wednesday evening on return from the nine-day visit.
Taylor, who is the Parliamentary Private Secretary to Home Office Minister, said the delegation which visited, among other things, a call centre in Noida "were very much impressed with the high standard of working conditions and enthusiasm of young people at the call centre".
The call centre is operated by Dell and Norwich Union.
She said outsourcing was a fall out of the globalisation and developing countries could not be denied of their share of the industrial growth. She noted that the DTI (Department of Trade and Industry) figures showed that the call centres in the UK were still a growing sector.
The delegation met Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani, External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, several Indian MPs, NGO leaders, elected officers from Delhi University's student unions and women CEOs and business leaders.
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"The whole group felt that it will be wholly wrong to be protectionist on the issue of outsourcing which not only helps India but also the British companies," Dari Taylor, leader of the delegation, told newsmen in London on Wednesday evening on return from the nine-day visit.
Taylor, who is the Parliamentary Private Secretary to Home Office Minister, said the delegation which visited, among other things, a call centre in Noida "were very much impressed with the high standard of working conditions and enthusiasm of young people at the call centre".
The call centre is operated by Dell and Norwich Union.
She said outsourcing was a fall out of the globalisation and developing countries could not be denied of their share of the industrial growth. She noted that the DTI (Department of Trade and Industry) figures showed that the call centres in the UK were still a growing sector.
The delegation met Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani, External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, several Indian MPs, NGO leaders, elected officers from Delhi University's student unions and women CEOs and business leaders.
Bureau Report