Most wanted - Indian IT professional
New Delhi: The queue is never ending. After the United States, it the world at large, where the services of Indian IT professionals are in great demand.

Following the recent announcements made back home, German foreign minister Joschka Fischer arrives in Bangalore on Wednesday to announce the launch of the 'green card' scheme, which will let in 20,000 IT workers into Germany for a period of five years. Also joining the global ranks of technology majors, is Japan which announced, on Monday, a decision to import 10,000 Indian IT professionals to meet an acute shortage.

If this were not enough, the country has seen the unusual spectacle of governments swooping in on IT workers. This spectacle has witnessed Mary Harney, deputy prime minister of Ireland — one of world's largest software exporters — coming to Bangalore to lure software skills to Dublin. It also prompted the information minister from the UAE to declare that the Emirates would be altering the quality profile of the Indian diaspora in the Gulf — from construction workers from Kerala to software specialists from Bangalore. Bulent Ecevit, the Turkish prime minister, issued a carte blanche to software workers to take up jobs in Turkey, even as he brought bricks and mortar entrepreneurs to build highways in India.
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