TELANGANA INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION(TITA)

The recently formed organisation TITA claiming to represent the interest of IT professionals from TELANGANA region.

This last Sunday TITA released a note that proves the proficients in a technical field from Telangana region have been facing discrimination since a long time..

According to the study of TITA, it has proven that out of 150 IT projects of the top 50 IT companies in Hyderabad, 60% of the technical professionals who get to work on these projects are from the Seemandhra region, while only 16% are from Telangana and the rest from other states. Big companies like IBM, Infosys, Wipro, HSBC, Tata Consultancy Services, Microsoft, Deloitte and Accenture feautured in the study of TITA.

"It is also found that 66% of the top officials in the human resources (HR) departments of these IT companies belong to the Seemandhra region and they are the ones who recruit people from seemandhra candidates neglecting the deserve candidates of Telangana who are also well efficient to there work.

Hence, there is no doubt that they are biased towards people from their own region , this is what happening from years and the only reason is discrimination.

TITA president Sundeep Kumar Makthala said, "I have experienced that appraisals and promotions of deserving IT professionals have been  delayed just because they are from Telangana districts. While, in IT industries, every one acts as if they are 'professional' but they do discriminate in the name of region.

TITA honorary president and advisor V Prakash pointed out that Telangana professionals are relegated to lower end jobs because a majority of the top decision making positions are occupied by Seemandhra techies who tend to promote only Seemandhra techies for higher end work even a telangana techies deserves the same position.

In a bid to try and eliminate this gap, TITA will be conducting mentorship programmes to boost the skill sets of Telangana techies, and announced that "they will provide training in new technologies and areas such as 

cloud, big data, mobility etc that will help telangana techies rise in their organizations".

TITA, which claims to have 3,000 techies and students as members, is also planning to reach out to around 200 colleges to conduct programmes to create awareness about job opportunities in the IT sector.

meanwhile considering the rubbishing fact that once Telangana is created there will be security issues for Seemandhra employees, a TITA member said, "If one thinks logically, it is the Telangana people who are in minor jobs under seemandhra in most IT companies here and we require more security than anyone else!