Abstract: Bangalore or Bengaluru and Kolkata are two cities in India with IT & IteS industries provide substantial employment opportunities for skilled people in India. The industry is heavily dependent on outsourcing, mainly catering to the market of the developed west. While Bangalore is the prime IT industry destination in India, Kolkata lags far behind it. The paper seeks to highlight the differences of status of industries in two cities, and the factors governing such differences. Job generation, investment attraction and revenue generation in IT sector are the key areas where all the cities are following Bangalore at present. Kolkata is chosen for comparison, as Bangalore lies at the extreme opposite end of the spectrum. The paper is based on literature survey and analysis of secondary data for analysis of job mobility.
Keywords: Bangalore, Kolkata, IT, IteS, job mobility, industry.
Title: The Job Mobility of IT Engineers: A Comparison between Kolkata and Bangalore
Author: Bhaskar Chaudhuri
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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