TCS sets foot in Bihar, starts BPO centre in Patna

Centre to create employment opportunities for more than 3,000 people in the state capital

Expanding its feet across the country, IT major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has set up its maidan Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) centre in Patna. The centre was inaugurated on Thursday by Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.

According to the officials present at the ceremony, the thousand-seater state-of-the-art centre would create employment opportunities for more than 3,000 people in the state capital. Rajesh Gopinathan, chief exceutive officer(CEO) and managing director (MD) of TCS, in his inaugural speech, said that the BPS centre at Patna was a small beginning in the direction of providing IT infrastructure and jobs to the youth of Bihar.

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