At fault, Professional Contractors Group council member Gurdial Rai told the Times of India, was the Intra-Company Transfer (ICT) scheme, which allows companies to move staff between countries as long as they stay with the same firm.

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This is partly the fault of a primitive banking system: there are no cheques, few credit cards, and paying by bank-transfer means an hour or so in a smelly queue.

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