Why has Dilip, who lives in Bangalore, changed his name to David

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Why has Dilip, who lives in Bangalore, changed his name to David Why has Dilip, who lives in Bangalore, changed his name to David? A Geographical Mystery

Why has Dilip, who lives in Bangalore, changed his name to David? Who is Dilip? Where does he work? Why has he changed his name to David? How does Dilip’s story explain how India and Britain are connected?

Clue: 1 Dilip earns £40 a week. An equivalent worker in Britain would earn £200

Clue: 2 A teacher in India earns £20 a week

Clue: 3 Bangalore has a population of over 6 million people and is the fastest growing city in Asia

Clue: 4 Indian call centres are 40% cheaper to run than British ones

Clue: 5 2 million people a year graduate from Indian universities and technical colleges

Clue: 6 One third of India’s population lives in absolute poverty

Clue: 7 Dilip has been trained to speak English with a convincing Geordie (Newcastle) accent

Clue: 8 1000 workers in Tyneside protested recently about Lloyds TSB plans to close its Newcastle call centre and transfer services to India

Clue: 9 There has been a big drop in infant and child mortality in India in recent decades

Clue: 10 The single biggest cost for a call centre is labour

Clue: 11 India gained independence from Britain nearly 50 years ago

Clue: Dilip has never been to the UK but he knows a lot about the English Premier Football League

Clue: Nearly 2% of the total UK workforce is employed in call centres

Clue: In the last two decades GDP in India has grown significantly but there are higher rates of unemployment

Clue: The Bangalore region is called the ‘byte-basket’ of India. There are 1154 I.T. companies based there

Clue: Dilip uses the Internet every day to check what the weather is like Newcastle

Clue: In July 2003 Norwich Union (an insurance company) shed 900 jobs in the UK

Clue: Indian call centres recruit only university and college graduates

Clue: 19 In 2002 and 2003, 28 British call centre firms moved 50,000 jobs overseas

Clue: 20 Dilip often has to work through the night

Clue: 21 Many Indians speak good English

Clue: 22 The top two call centre locations in the UK are Tyneside and Glasgow

Clue: 23 Call centre staff in India are educated to a higher level than their UK counterparts

Clue: 24 Britain’s busiest telephone number is the rail enquiry service

Clue: 25 Dilip is allowed to watch ‘Eastenders’ and ‘Coronation Street’ in his lunch break

Clue: Research has shown that people with Geordie (Newcastle) and Scottish accents are considered to be trustworthy

Clue: British Telecom aims to reduce its call centres in the UK from 104 to 31

Clue: A leading Indian newspaper writer has warned that call centres reduce Indian graduates to ‘cyber-coolies’

Clue: The University of Bangalore has 300,000 students and is the largest in Asia

Clue: Call centres in the UK are often located in areas of industrial decline and high unemployment

By the end of the exercise, most pupils should be able to answer the following questions : What are the main location factors which account for the distribution of call centres in the UK? Why have so many UK call centre jobs been ‘off-shored’/’out-sourced’ (teach these phrases) to India? What are the advantages and disadvantages of this for the Indian economy? 4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this for the UK economy and for customers in the UK?