IBM Adds 3,000 More Software, Services Jobs In IndiaIBM Adds 3,000 More Software, Services Jobs In India

IBM plans to create 3,000 new software development jobs in Calcutta as the world's largest IT services provider continues growing in India, according to wire service reports Friday.

Business consulting including software application development and maintenance will be carried out at a new facility in Calcutta, which has been growing as an IT center in addition to the traditional IT center in Bangalore.

"We are very bullish to fill up this capacity very soon because the business is growing and customers are showing more and more interest in sourcing of global delivery services," said Amitabh Ray, an IBM executive, according to an Associated Press article appearing in the Wall Street Journal online Friday.

In just six months, IBM has grown its Indian workforce to 43,000 from 38,500. IBM's Indian workers are scattered throughout 14 cities in the nation.

Outsourcing in India continues to boom with India's National Association of Software and Service Companies predicting IT outsourcing will grow by more than 25 percent in the year to March 2007.