Indian tech firms face skills gap (BBC)

NASSCOM foresees a shortage of 262,000 professionals, raising fears India could lose out to other countries.

It has begun talks with IT firms, universities and governments about improving study courses to equip students for outsourcing and IT research jobs.

Kiran Karnik, president of NASSCOM says, "The NASSCOM plan is a longterm one. Within a year, we want to make rapid progress." One-year is long-term?