e-Sagu, a unique e-Cultivation initiative is pioneered by the Hyderabad based International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT). The e-cultivation is being implemented in 950 acres in Banapuram and Kamalapuram villages of Khammam district.

In this system the photographers visit agriculture-fields and take digital images of pests and diseases on the crops. These images are transported to the base office at Gachibowli. The agricultural scientists and entomologists study the images and suggest remedial measures Online, to the project centre at Banapuram. Thus the farmer gets the prescription in less than 12 hours. In simple terms e-cultivation is Tele-medicine for plants.

Earlier, we used to depend entirely on the pesticide dealers and their quack remedies as agricultural scientists were nowhere to be seen. Thanks to e-Cultivation, I am able to reduce my input costs by Rs.3,300, said R.Satyanarayan, a farmer of Kamalapuram.

Web-based Agricultural Information Dissemination System

In the proposed system, the agricultural experts get the information about the crop situation through Internet in the form of both text and image data, and then generate the appropriate advice, which is sent to the farmer through the Internet. The AgrIDS contains four parts: Farmers, Coordinators, Agricultural experts (AEs) and Agricultural Information System (AIS). All parts are connected through Internet.

Wipro has just fired some employees for faking their CVs. It has also filed police complaints against several recruitment agencies for helping these employees falsify CV information. While it's yet not certain how many employees were shown the door, this is perhaps the first instance of Wipro's rigorous defense system against such malpractice being so seriously breached.

Manipulation of resumes, often in active collaboration with recruitment agencies and sometimes with the knowledge of recruitment personnel of IT companies, is assuming alarming proportions. IBM India recently sacked many employees for the same reason. Some are said to have worked there for nearly two years. TCS, also facing this problem, has from this year outsourced the entire process of CV verification to a specialized agency.

"The emphasis today is on speed of recruitment. Companies have many times more projects than they can handle. So recruitment processes have been undermined, enabling people with manipulated CVs to get in," says a senior professional who has worked in the HR department of several IT companies.

After the BPO and KPO (Knowledge Process Outsourcing) boom, the corporate sector in India is gearing up for a new concept RPO, which is Recruitment Process Outsourcing---aiming at easing the burden of the headhunting business of the corporate sector.

The RPO sector in India is currently in its infancy. Our clients need higher quality with increased efficiency. For that forecasting must be done in the market, says Harish Bhattiprolu, director of Hyderabad-based Kenexa Technology Head quartered in the US with 1,600 clients worldwide.

In the changing job scenario, no employee sticks to an organization for more than two years. That is the reason why companies spend a lot of money and time in hiring the required human resource. RPO firms act as specialized consulting firms for recruitment, says Vipul Prakash of Elixir Web.

Many international companies are opening their offices in the country and looking for professionals to handle their operations. We serve their needs by providing them with the right talent, said Vipul.