Here's a new dimension to the Satyam Saga,



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Saturday, January 24, 2009 12:20 AM IST


Cooks, drivers sent to US as engineers


G S Vasu & Vikram Sharma
First Published : 23 Jan 2009 01:48:00 AM IST
Last Updated : 23 Jan 2009 02:52:49 PM IST

HYDERABAD: A new dimension is emerging in the infamous Satyam saga. Information available with the Express suggests that thousands of people have been sent to the United States by the IT major on the basis of fake educational and employment certificates.

Highly-placed sources told this paper that this has been happening over the years and it is possible that a significant number of them may or may not be with the company now.

One reason for Satyam to resort to this step is the need for assistants of a varied nature — drivers, cooks, attenders, gardeners — for its highranking officials employed in the US.

While Indians are available for a pittance, employing a US citizen for similar works is a far more costlier proposition. What is interesting is that a majority of those packed off to the US for sundry jobs (projecting them as engineers) come from villages in Ramalinga Raju’s native district West Godavari in coastal Andhra Pradesh. Most of them belong to his community.

While Satyam employed North Indians in top positions, it chose those from Ahmedabad as low-level assistants.

About 400 of them from Hyderabad figure in the long list of those sent to the US by manipulating the records. It is also possible that hiring officials in Satyam, who allegedly offered employment to job-seekers for pecuniary consideration, may have provided fake employment papers to those intending to go to the US if they are not Satyam associates.

Politicians and others, whom Satyam has to keep in good humour, may also have used the Satyam label to obtain visas in cases where they have a vested interest.

The CID wing of the AP Police, which is probing the Satyam scandal, has sniffed this angle too and is in the process of gathering details.

Satyam has sent cooks and drivers as Engineers to US,
I think that is better than Engineers coming to Canada and Working as Cooks and Drivers

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Originally posted by bangaloredesi

Satyam has sent cooks and drivers as Engineers to US,
I think that is better than Engineers coming to Canada and Working as Cooks and Drivers

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