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Adventity’s centre in Chennai

CHENNAI: Adventity BPO India Pvt Ltd., a Mumbai-based end-to-end knowledge and business process outsourcing (BPO) company, opened its seventh global delivery centre in the DLF building in Chennai. The company planned to open two more delivery centres in Chennai by this year-end.

The Union Minister for Communication and Information Technology, A. Raja, inaugurated the facility here on Saturday.

Addressing presspersons, Kumar Subramanian, Chief Executive Officer, said the centre would have an office space of 33,000 sq. ft. The company would soon be taking another 67,000 sq ft office space in the same DLF building in Chennai. It also planned to set up a centre at Old Mahabalipuram Road near Chennai. All the three centres would have a total seating capacity for 15,000 people. The company would double its headcount from 2,000 to 4,000 by the year-end in Chennai. Similarly, it also proposed to increase its staff strength from 4,000 to 8,000 across all delivery centres.

Mr. Subramanian said the total investment on the three projects would come to $8 million. About the funding, he said the company had already finished two rounds of funding from venture capitalists.

Mr. Subramanian said the centre would offer the following services such as end-to-end offshore mortgage origination and processing for the U.S. market, full suite for airline and travel services, turnkey credit, debit and loyalty cards programme management and banking financial facilities.

Inaugurating the centre, Mr. Raja, said the Union Government had decided to implement e-governance scheme on the public-private partnership (PPP) model. The Centre, under the Department of IT, had decided to invest Rs. 11,000 crore for implementing the e-governance scheme.

Under the new PPP scheme, the Union Government would set up a data centre in all State capitals, which would help develop rural BPOs.

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