Ask the question: Are British workers becoming too lazy t.compete with Indias booming economy? And, the answer is: Yes! according to Peter Luff, Chairman of the House o.commons Trade and Industr.committee, just back from a fact-finding tour of India with members of his team. At a
meeting of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Birmingham, Luff, a Conservative Member of Parliament from mid-Worcestershire, warns it is time for a wake-up call" instead of taking the country"s prosperity for granted. Pointing out that there were more India.companies in Great Britain than British firms in India, Luff said Indian owners and executives increasingly expressed dismay at the disappearance of work ethic" among British workers.
SI know many British people are working harder than ever, but it"s not universally true. What, we heard from India.companies" time and time again wa.complaints about the British work ethic, he said. SThey ring the UK at 5:00 p.m. to sort out a client"s problems, which is 10.30 p.m. in India, and the people here say: We are sorry but we are going home." They just don"t understand it. He went on to say the lack of enterprise in the country was enormously worrying, even more so, as British firms continued to invest in USA and Europe, and not in Brazil, China, Russia or India. Making safe investments in the economies of the past, instead, they should be aware that it was the economies of the future which should be invested in. In short, Luff having seen the writing on the wall is exhorting the British to invest heavily in India, a country touted to be a powerful, if not the most powerful economy of the 21st century.
Telling his audience that India"s economy was growing at 8% and more a year, Luff told them the growth had less or nothing to do with British jobs being moved to India. As proof of his statement, he noted out of a population of 1.2-billion, only 130,000 of them worked in call centres, and those that did, did so for America.companies.
Luff went on to add, the real boom in India was in jobs among professionals, such as software engineers, which has led to India"s middle class today to emerge as large as the entire 295-million population of USA, and to grow by 25-million a year.
SA huge domestic market is opening up, the Indian railways, already the second largest employer in the world, recently advertised for 48,000 vacancies. They got seven million applications, he was quoted as saying.
And, the next bit of news from the sea-bound isle of Great Britain will, no doubt, cause Luff to grow livid. In a unique twist
offshoreoutsourcingworld.com off-shoring / outsourcing from Britain to India, British university students have been payin.computer professionals in India t.complete course assignments, but of course, for a fee. British academics tracking such malpractices have dubbed the newly recognised trend that operates mainly through the Internet as contract plagiarism". A trend more in vogue amongst students enrolled in IT-courses at British universities. Following a simple modus operandi, students put an offer on websites with details of their requirements, inviting bids from professionals willing t.complete the assignment for a fee. Highl.competitive, the online bidding invariably dominated by IT professionals from India allows British students to get thei.computer assignments done for as little as five to ten British Pounds, all high quality and tight deadlines met.
According to an investigation conducted by Robert Clarke and Thomas Lancaster of the University of Central England (UCE), the trend has assumed the dimensions of international trade, with offers made by students in western countries, an.competitively bid for by professionals in India and Eastern Europe. SIt"s a little cottage industry, according to Clarke, a lecturer in the department o.computing at the UCE.
Monitoring a legitimate website on which smal.companies advertise for software to be written, Clarke and Lancaster instead found 12% of its business was students asking for bids to write their assignments. Offers are mostly from students wanting, for exacomplacency the first sign of an imminent downfall! It happened to the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Mughals, the British, and the signs are all there in USA, Canada, UK, in fact make a clean sweep, for the entire western group of nations.
Perhaps, the rape and plunder of India by the British has been responsible for the Indians hard work ethic, preceded of course, with their deep reverence for knowledge. And, as everyone knows, every Indian toddler at the knee of parents or grand parents learns the road to success is only through education and dedicated hard work. The drumming into the head begins early, as even new born Indian babies have their heads filled with the responsibility owed for fulfilling parental dreams of becoming doctors, lawyers, and now, IT-professionals. Who can blame them, when they grow up to achieve what their parents told them they should achieve! This, along with the desire for what the west takes for granted has brought India where it is now i.e. a newly sprung economy determined to make the world its oyster.
Indeed, one must admire the chutzpah of a nation, left but an empty husk by the British, who after dismembering the country in 1947, then left in a massive hurry, leaving it to bleed from open wounds. But, India healed itself, and a lot needs to be said of a nation and a people, who in less than 60-years of freedom from the British yoke have more Indian firms established in their erstwhile rulers home country, than the British do in their erstwhile colony!
Mr. Luff, you are bang on when you affirm 'the British are too lazy t.compete with India. Perhaps, there is a lesson there for everyone. Prosperity makes fo.complacency an.complacency makes for laziness, which in turn leads to poverty. The Karmic Wheel of Fortun.comes full circle i.e India on its way, once again, to being the richest country on earth, to representatives of Great Britain (remember Sir Thomas Roe hanging around Jahangirs court, trying to coax a royal firman out of the Mughal Emperor that would allow the British to trade in India) like Luff and others, wanting a lucrative trade deal with India! History repeats itself, albeit with a difference. This time round it will be an Indian Raj instead of British, a vow every Indian should make to themselves and the nation! A mantra they should repeat with every breath they take!
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