New Delhi, May 28: US Congressman Jay Inslee today downplayed India`s apprehension over the introduction of a certain bill proposing to curtail outsourcing to India saying these were "more of discussions pieces than legislative pieces". "The introduction of certain bill proposing to curtail outsourcing from India are more discussion pieces rather than legislative pieces", Inslee, a Democrat from Washington, said here at a CII seminar on outsourcing.
"There are several stages of a legislation -- after introduction, there are hearings, from where it goes to chambers where votings take place, then it goes to the executive for potential veto and I can tell you that none of these stages have come in Washington since the bill was introduced, he said.
Four American states are considering legislation to ban outsourcing of state data processing contracts to developing nations even as dozens of household names, spanning insurance, banking, technology and telecom, are transferring part of their White Collar administrative and customer-service work to Asia, particularly to India, to cut costs.
The states considering the measure to curb flight of jobs are New Jersey, Maryland, Connecticut and Washington, the Sunday Telegraph from London had reported on May 25. Bureau Report