Posted on 10/14/2025 10:50:06 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Amid the U.S. H-1B visa crunch, India sees an unexpected upside. Nara Lokesh, Andhra Pradesh’s IT minister, told Moneycontrol, “This is an opportunity for India for brain gain,” highlighting the potential for the country to attract skilled professionals who might otherwise head to the United States.
The minister emphasized that India’s appeal goes beyond cheap labor. “If you look at Global Capability Centers in India, the product they’re offering, it’s for the globe,” he added.
His remarks come against the backdrop of turbulence in the H-1B visa program under the Trump administration. The visa, long criticized for drawing skilled Indians to the U.S. in pursuit of higher living standards, has become a flashpoint in debates over talent migration.
Global Capability Centers (GCCs) are offshore units established by multinational companies to manage critical business functions, technology development, and innovation from cost-effective locations such as India. Once primarily focused on back-office or support tasks, these centers have now transformed into strategic hubs, leading initiatives in digital transformation, analytics, artificial intelligence, product design, and research for their parent firms.
According to a Moneycontrol, India hosts around 1,700 Global Capability Centers, accounting for more than half of the world’s total.
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I’m sure they’ll soon be producing world-class software.
Thanking you very kindly, America!
Good for them, I wish their country the best, truly.
Hilarious!
Astroturf Alert! India = Brains.
India = Cheap droids in cubicles.
Exactly, so India needs to be thanking America for no longer stealing their top talent, now India can thrive and become a world leader.
America once again proving our generosity and desire to see other nations to succeed!
They domesticating their workers so they can improve their economy, I support. Every country should be self-sufficient in its ability to provide for its people.
I say that as a principle, because I have always believed that.
If Life hands you lemons, make lemon curry.
The Indians can “do the needful” and stay the hell out.
Good luck . Take back all the demon worshipping Indians living in America while you’re at it
"they’ll soon be producing world-class software"
We’ll know that India has become a successful, 1st world country when the people in India call for tech help and can’t understand the foreign tech support. LOL
It’s an extreme act of kindness for The United States to return the caste system to India. /sarc
MIGA!
Make India great again
You know what the red dot on their foreheads means, don’t you?
They’re recording you, sending your benis and vagene to the internet
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