Amid an emerging trend of multi-national companies hiving off their India offshore units, US-based PC giant Hewlett Packard has asserted it remains committed to its BPO unit in the country and plans to increase its headcount by 20% over the next one year.Reacting to recent reports suggesting that HP might join the emerging trend of MNCs selling off their India offshore units, the company said it had no such plans and instead it was ramping up its operations with headcount and infrastructure additions as well as new contract wins.The company said it remains committed to its BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) business whose global capabilities provide an extensive range of services to its customers and plans to ramp up its BPO headcount in India to 7,800 over the next year."HP has no plans to sell or divest its business process outsourcing (BPO) business," Arundhati Chakraborty, business development and communications head in India, Hewlett Packard, said.At present, we have approximately 6,500 employees in our India centers and we expect to expand our headcount by 20% over the next year, she added.Over two dozen multi-national firms are said to be mulling over plans to sell off their India offshore units, following the precedent set by firms like General Electric (GE) and British Airways in the past.
