Indian personnel are amongst the most hard-working and efficient in the world. They combine thorough skill and knowledge with sheer diligence. They are the most mobile workforce in the world. Due to the low pay scales in India they come at reasonable and very affordable salaries. It is for their mental as well as psychological prowess that they are found in all corners of the world engaged in some productive activity. In the U.S it is no secret that a major chunk of software, hardware and medical professionals are Indians.
Places like Hyderabad and Bangalore are becoming the nerve centres for the software industry in South-Asia. There are at least 5 software technology parks run by Japanese, US and German firms there.With no dearth of software talent there is a boom in the Indian Software exports industry. There is an increasing trend for Big corporate software firms in the West to give sub-projects to Indian firms to decrease their overheads.
India is a geographically diverse country.This has many advantages since the spectrum and scope of skills available in India are tremendous. There is a homogenous mix of people and trades who excel at their skills due to generations which have worked at the same trades like the Masons of Rajasthan, Carpenters of Gujarat. There is a hierarchy of Refineries and huge petrochemical installations in the South which never fails to produce excellent mechanical/electrical/instrumentation engineers and technicians.
In the recent years India has ventured into oil exploration in a big way. Due to this there are oilfields scattered all over the country. A major portion of the workforce working in the oil rich nations of the Middle East comprise Indians. After the Gulf war, Indian personnel were in great demand to work on the burning oil wells, in the reconstruction of Kuwait's oil industry. Indian manpower in the last 15 years has had a presence in oil drilling and exploration all over the globe. Due to this, besides local skills there are personnel available with experience abroad as well.
A rich tradition of core maths and fundamental sciences in institutes like the IIT (Indian Institute of Technology), REC (Regional Engineering College) produce technical brains which are comparable to the best in the world.
Some amazing statistics which we recently received over email claimed that 38% of doctors in the United States are Indians. 18% of Intel employees and 32% of Microsoft employees are Indians. These are statistics which are eye openers for anyone.