Tech Mahindra’s new BPO

IT firm Tech Mahindra on Wednesday announced that it has opened a BPO centre in Kolkata with the preliminary capacity of 1,000 seats.

The main aim is to provide customer service delivery to telecom service providers and mainly be servicing Reliance Communications' operations in the first phase. In future new clients are added to the kolkata BPO.

1,000 seats are the initial capacity 500 will be added at the end of July 2009 and another 500 in at the end of August 2009.

Tech Mahindra already has centres in Noida, Chandigarh, Pune and Chennai and two overseas centres in Belfast and New Castle.

Tech Mahindra President Sujit Baksi said, "Tech Mahindra has always expanded in major cities around India to leverage the availability of local skilled staff. This centre allows us to spread our operations in Eastern India in a big way and we are keen to tap the local talent pool in this region to make this centre a major hub that will service other telecom service providers in this region as well."

New information on satyam scam

Satyam’s Ramalinga Raju's wish to get hold of vast amount of land was not limited to Hyderabad only is well known by now. Everyone is aware of the reality that Raju and his men zeroed in on chennai, Pune and Nagpur for the reason of creating a formidable land bank. The CBI, which suspect that the land was bought with money that was taped away from Satyam, has now moved special teams to spot and freeze all these land property. Most of the lands are in pieces of five to six acre plot.

The CBI would be extra wide-ranging than the past work out by the Registrar of Companies (RoC) that had full a report on the land transactions of Raju brothers. The RoC exercise had concentrated only on the land bank of the Rajus in Hyderabad and Greater Hyderabad. It was found that the Rajus had bought land through many private companies which was owned by them.

In the meantime CBI sleuths are also struggling to gather evidence on the Rs 60 crore found in three foreign bank accounts in the US was abstracted from the profits of the American depository receipts issue of Satyam in 2001.