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Chennai, May 3 Amidst reports that protectionism in the US is gathering steam — in the form of restricting the issue of H-1B and L1 visas — Europe is awake to the possibilities of importing Indian manpower.

Addressing journalists from The Hindu group of publications last week, Mr Som Mittal, President of Nasscom, the apex organisation for the IT and ITES industry in India, said immigration officials from Denmark had been exploring options in conferring citizenship on Indian youth qualified in the area of software design so that they could settle down and work in that country. “It wasn’t about outsourcing. They said they came to explore how they could leverage India’s (strength),” Mr Mittal said. These discussions began last year.

He added that Denmark has fewer young people than its leaders would like and that those that they have are not interested in a career in software or design.

Mr Mittal said the officials also discussed related issues such as whether the society would accept and encourage such ideas and asked Nasscom what it could do to make this work.

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