BJP president Shah listened to the programme at a tea stall in Ahmedabad's Muslim-dominated Dariyapur area in the presence of hundreds of locals and party workers.
Growing protectionism in their main markets - the US and the UK - has forced them to hire local workers, upending the cost arbitrage model they had built their business on.
The sector employs around 1 million skilled and unskilled workers directly and indirectly and decline in exports is a major worry for participants in the value chain.
Besides taking selected youth leaders to this institute for training, the Youth Congress also organises 5-day training camps in states to develop ideological clarity, communication skills and team spirit and guide them how to identify themselves with the locals and be the social activists more than just the political workers.
Slamming American immigration policies, Microsoft boss Bill Gates has said the US was shutting the door on the best and the brightest at a time when the country needed it the most.
As citizens who voted the BJP to power, here's an opportunity to share your Budget wishlist.
Rahul also said the founders of Ford, Mercedes and Honda were 'mechanics'
Currently, it is easier to hire expatriate workers from other companies but much depends on the sponsor.
It has been the preferred visa for Indian IT companies and has helped them keep costs down and gain a margin advantage over multinational players by sending engineers to the US.
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As citizens, here's an opportunity for you to tell Finance Minister Arun Jaitley the reforms you would like to see in various sectors, what needs to be rectified, what needs to be strengthened, what needs to be dumped. So take some time off write a postcard to the finance minister.
There is no doubt that archaic labour laws governing employment of contract labour have fanned tensions at the workplace and need to be amended.
Amid headwinds across global markets, US issues fresh restrictions on H-1B visas. Ayan Pramanik & Raghu Krishnan list out the many ways in which this impacts the Indian IT industry.
Refuting the allegations of United States lawmakers and certain quarters here that H-1B visas take away jobs from Americans, Nasdaq's chief has claimed that studies show that for every H-1B visa, technology companies increase employment by five workers.
Poor quality of education is one of the most important reasons for high unemployment in India, says Kavita Nigam.
Although India is a labour-surplus economy with an unlimited number of workers willing to work at a subsistence wage a paradoxical feature of the labour market is the rising incidence of scarcity or shortages amid a situation of potential plenty.
Modi, in an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal, wrote that the US and India are forging a deeper and stronger partnership that extends far beyond the Beltway and the Raisina Hill.
