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Then the tide turned. Last March a labor-hungry Internet portal based in New Delhi gave Dubey a job editing online stories about women's fashion. He was hardly an expert, but, hey, it was his first work in 18 months. Within a couple of weeks, two other Internet-related companies tried to poach him. Today he makes $475 a month, three times the salary of a doctor right out of medical school, and his parents are getting marriage offers from families with available daughters. Dubey is the content manager for a portal providing crop and weather information for Indian...
...phenomenon. For years, the southern city of Bangalore has been a high-tech oasis where Indians write code for international tech giants and export software to the world. But the Net promises to push the IT boom into India's mainstream. Cities like Hyderabad, Bombay and New Delhi are promising telecom links and tax holidays to prospective business investors. "India always had the talent, but with the Internet, we've found the delivery mechanism to transport this talent around the globe," says Prakash Gurbaxani, who set up his own dotcom consultancy, 24/7 Customer.com five months ago in Bangalore...
...Software is only the more prominent half of India's IT bonanza. A glimpse of the other big new line of business can be found at Selectronic, a three-year-old New Delhi company where young Indian workers are paid to watch American TV programs like ER and Chicago Hope as part of their job training. Selectronic also hires stenographers to transcribe medical records for doctors in California, Georgia and Pennsylvania. Without the Internet, that vast distance was unbridgeable; with the Net in place, a whole range of labor-intensive work--or "IT-enabled services"--can be done anywhere...
...hire stenographers at U.S. wage rates. Indians charge far less for the same work--and the Internet has brought them within reach. A doctor in the U.S. simply dials a toll-free number and dictates case summaries into the phone. Those recordings are transmitted via satellite to New Delhi, where they are typed by Selectronic's 200 transcribers...
...Reported by Meenakshi Ganguly/ Bombay, Saritha Rai/ Bangalore and Maseeh Rahman/New Delhi...