Kiran Karnik Quotations

Security has always been a priority for us. We have made continuous efforts to make India a secure outsourcing destination through various initiatives.

Similarly, we see immense potential for the small and medium enterprise sector in both countries to collaborate and complement their strengths for designing and manufacturing products that can be marketed across the world at a competitive price.

Since Chinese firms are 10 times bigger in size than their Korean or Japanese counterparts, they should explore our market by investing here and making best use of our skilled workforce.

I expect a bigger horde of students to arrive next year because the ones here said they had a great time and will go home to talk about it.

Just making regulations for IPR is not enough. Its enforcement and conviction are also important to win the confidence of global companies.

It is great raw material, but only 30 percent of this pool is ready to plunge straight in and deliver, ... A-list of challenges.

NASSCOM and the IT industry will work, in collaboration with the Police and government, towards tightening security measures to create a safer working environment for the industry.

We intend to take up the issue with President Bush during his forthcoming visit to India (March 1). Since the US administration too understands our needs, we hope they address it. Indications are some moves are afoot in this direction.

We need to take steps like expanding the network for assessment to reach out to smaller cities and fixing a benchmark for assessment of skilled workers for the IT sector so that India's IT sector can keep growing in leaps and bounds.

Though we have taken up the issue with the finance ministry a number of times, the issue is still hanging fire. The parent firms want a clarification on computing export profits generated by their Indian subsidiaries or vendors, as such a burden puts them at a disadvantage over other companies in the industry.

Though there would be no big impact of regulations on Indian companies but it is a matter of concern. It is a small step by the government to regulate and control....

We are deeply concerned about the increase in levies on packaged software and on IT hardware, which will be a setback to efforts to promote IT utilization in the Indian economy and for vital applications like education and health.

We are not against safeguards for L1 visas, but new restrictions should not be adverse. We agree L1 visas should not be misused. But the process should not take too long.

This trend is particularly heartening as benefits of co-producing are immense.

There should be specific services industry related visas and there should be no cap or delay in processing them.

The skill sets in both the countries are similar and it will be great to create engagements with Pakistan.

A free trade agreement with the US in the services sector will be a win-win situation for both the countries.

A free trade agreement will complement both the economies. While their strength is the vibrant venture capital and marketing skills, the Indian IT industry is known globally for its vast and skilled manpower base.

The intent is there, but implementation is lacking,

The fee can even be a few times higher. The institutes should work out a system of giving loans to those who need them.

India has very good teachers, especially in math and science. Also, these subjects are culture-free so it is comparatively easy for Indian teachers to teach them. Online tutoring is an area which shows enormous potential for growth.

Indian companies are not satisfied playing the second fiddle anymore. They are competing big with the global IT companies.

In middle class India, the appetite for risk is low. But it is changing.

In the short term, most of the Indian technology companies may look at innovation as a strategy to achieve higher growth.

But in the long term, innovation will be a strategy to survive in a highly competitive world. If the companies don't innovate to open up new business opportunities, they will sink.

I don't think there is going to be any significant outcome from a big summit as WSIS. But I really hope that there would be some consensus on Internet governance,

The developed economies are going to face acute shortages of working-age people - they will have either import people or export work. The further you project the time horizon, the more inevitable it gets.

The direction should be to simplify the access device.