Loading ...This has been bothering me for quite a while, particularly more so when I visited US last month and saw how few other countries were being pushed. This being a very touchy subject, I debated myself a few times on whether I should blog or not and my emotion had a better of me, and hence here is the blog. No I am not such a big guy to talk about such a big subject nor this is something related to SME space alone, but I feel it is a pan India issue which I like to bring it here.
Today India is pretty much equated with IT in the US (may be so in the whole of Western World). Indian economy is doing really well (inspite of the US slowdown, petrol prices going through the roof, financial markets being sluggish etc) and most of the success is attributed to the rise of IT and the brand/image that India has in the global market. Today IT continues to be one of the main contributors fuelling the growth of Indian economy. Overall, Indian business is doing great globally, which makes it our duty to safeguard this image or brand of India globally and ensure the market and the economy grows.
In this scenario, many countries are vying for a share in the global IT spending of which India always gets a lion’s share. Almost every country has a nice story advertising as to why outsourcing to their country/region is way better than doing it to India. Some countries are employing different ways and means to divert business to their country, not excluding such below the belt tactics as, “We are safer than India” line. Safer? This word really bothered me a bit and started this whole thought process of mine – why are they safer (are they really safer? and why are we not? Do you think that a bit of fear in the global market can turn the market elsewhere? Do you think some one might actually try doing this? After all, this is billions of dollars market and a few doubts here and a few scares there can probably change the mind set and turn the customers away (remember a small lead is all it took to make US citizens almost drive away the Chinese made toys). For all you know, someone who wants a bigger share of this pie, who wants to give a bad image to India in the global market, can probably do the most dreadful and shameful act, you never know. If these people can create a dent to our image, they would have achieved what they wanted and can send out bad signal to the rest of the world. It doesn’t matter where the dent has happened; it is India which stands to lose.
It stands to logic that, the least suspected person does a criminal act and the most suspected gets the blame. This may be the case here too. We need to be very careful. One of the first things we do when we construct a house is to secure ourselves and I guess we need to do something similar here for our country too– don’t know how, but we have to do it on a war footing. This might even mean allocating a huge budget, taxing us more (say adding Security cess), drastic measures that may hurt the economy to some extent in the short term. It is still worth every penny spent, saving our industry, brand, economy and more importantly 1000s of innocent lives.
I sincerely hope that the government and the concerned security agencies are actually making sure that the right steps are being taken. Prevention is one million times better than the cure.
Home Land security is a good example in the US, they have introduced many innovative steps and security procedures to prevent a repeat of 9/11 and I hope we do something similar before something of that nature happens. Safer India is a better India for everyone.
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Comments
You said it rightly, we are in the mid way of slope
where we have traveled half way through near to success,
so whatever we do now it will have large impact in future,
the step should be taken by the industry leaders, and govt should back up the same. For this Nuclear deal is an example.
Renu
perhaps thinking that “safer” means your project is safe, not the usual terrorist fear that people talk about. Managers fear about data leaks and stolen information more than terrorist attacks. Dampening that fear is the job of the companies, not the government.
just a thought….