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[1] Accenture will be steadily ramping up its Indian operations and hiring 13,000 people within a year, as part of its strategy to facilitate India playing a bigger role in its global operations.
Accenture, which has a headcount of about 37,000 in India at present, intends to scale up this figure to 50,000 in the next 12 months, Mr William D. Green, Chairman and CEO, said.
Worldwide, its gross addition is expected to be 60,000 by the year ended August 31, 2008.
Accenture serves more than 350 global clients, including Fortune 1000 global clients through its operations in Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pune. India is also an integral part of Accenture’s Global Delivery Network, a network of more than 45 integrated delivery centres across five continents.