NASSCOM, the Indian software- and service-industry lobby, and McKinsey, a consultancy, back in 1999, are coming true.
That is short of the forecast of 11% to 14% growth for the sector from outsourcing industry body Nasscom.
Nasscom, the association of Indian IT firms, said the efforts faced roadblocks because of a lack of qualified U.S. graduates.
"Some clients have expressed concerns about a likely disruption, " says Ganesh Natarajan, chairman of Nasscom, the software industry association group.
So said Mohammed Shahabuddin, manager of business development for the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM), an Indian software industry body.
Some 20, 000 people of Indian descent have returned in the past two years, says Kiran Karnik, president of India's Nasscom, a tech trade group.
Most of the software companies exhibiting their products and services in the NASSCOM pavilion have satellite offices in the U.S. "We will be back next year, " said Shahabuddin.
NASSCOM's security forum, and has campaigned for standards to be raised higher than those prevailing in Britain and America, in order to make data protection a selling-point for India.
The cases have sparked a search for technologies that can help and Indian trade group Nasscom recently announced a competition for firms to develop apps specifically focused on keeping women safe.
NASSCOM, the IT industry's lobby group, reckons that of the 350, 000 engineering graduates who emerge each year, mostly from private colleges, 25% are unemployable without extensive further training, and half are just unemployable.
"Lack of talent in the United States and the abundance of talent in countries such as India" is the reason for high demand for foreign tech worker visas, said Ameet Nisarkar, senior vice president of NASSCOM.
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