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Transcription unit ties up with US company
Statesman News Service
DURGAPUR, Aug 13: South Bengal’s lone medical transcription unit has made a pact with a leading US company to work together in the field of primary BPO services.
A memorandum of understanding in this regard was signed last week.
C-Bay Systems Incorporate, USA – a $ 876 million medical transcription major that started operating in the domestic ITeS (Information Technology enabled Services) market in 1999 has now entered the state IT sector. The company has tied up with Universal Medi-Com Transcriber- South Bengal's lone medical transcription unit here. The MOU was signed at the UMCT's corporate office here.
The US based MT major has agreed to a Rs 4.10 crore annual off-loading of ITeS jobs in favour of UMCT that has commenced from August itself. Mr Samrat Chatterjee, director, UMCT said: “This will help in generating 66,000 online working hours in one year which incidentally will create 300 additional direct employment opportunities every year.” He added: “To help develop a sustained skilled manpower pool we have also floated a state of the art six months training module accommodating 200 intake per session.”
Mr Mohit Srivastava, head of the C-Bay delegation said: “We expect Durgapur would be showing the way in IT exploration in a new form to the rest of Bengal. After we visited the IT Park here we found that there are plenty of opportunities in this hub giving the ITeS units plenty of chances to explore further.” The UMCT came into operation in the steel city in 2006.
According to the Nascom reports, MT is projected to be India's fourth largest industry and job provider, though the Nascom database has reflected a very disappointing trend with severe dearth in supply of trained medical transcribers in the country. According to Nascom, the outsourcing industry is apprehended to face a shortage of 4,00,000 professionals by 2010. Mr Chatterjee, the UNCT director said: “The country has less that one lakh MT professionals currently.
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