{"id":1359,"date":"2010-05-19T23:01:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T17:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2010-05-20T04:02:11","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T22:32:11","slug":"outsourcing-unit-to-be-set-up-in-indian-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/outsourcing-unit-to-be-set-up-in-indian-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Outsourcing unit to be set up in Indian jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If this hadn&#8217;t been on BBC then I would have dismissed this as a joke and a bad one at that. But apparently it is true. There are idiots who think that outsourcing backend processes of Banks to convicted criminals is a good idea. I mean come on&#8230; Are you even thinking? If they were doing this with phone bills or utilities bills it would have made sense. But banks&#8230; Seriously?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The unit will employ 200 educated convicts who will handle back office operations like data entry, and process and transmit information.<\/p>\n<p>The project will begin at Charlapally Central Jail, near the state capital Hyderabad, in the next four months.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe unit, which is expected to undertake back-office work for banks, will work round the clock with three shifts of 70 staff each.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I want to know what banks will be part of this program so that I can move my money to another bank if required. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href='http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/8677486.stm'>BBC News &#8211; Outsourcing unit to be set up in Indian jail<\/a><br \/>\nThanks to <a href='http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/05\/outsourcing_to.html'>Schneier on Security<\/a> for the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If this hadn&#8217;t been on BBC then I would have dismissed this as a joke and a bad one at that. But apparently it is true. There are idiots who think that outsourcing backend processes of Banks to convicted criminals is a good idea. I mean come on&#8230; Are you even thinking? If they were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","category-newsarticles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1362,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}