Accenture plans to raise its staff numbers in India by 30 percent to 35,000 by August, overtaking the United States as its biggest employment hub, said Chief Executive William Green.
The expansion underscores India's growing importance as a destination for outsourcing.
Accenture currently employs 27,000 people in India, spread across six cities: Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Pune and Chennai, which account for about 19 percent of its global workforce.
It has about 30,000 employees in the United States."At 35,000 people at the end of our fiscal year, India will become the largest country for Accenture, passing the United States," Green told reporters.
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