Dagupan City (22 July) -- An Indian company is eyeing this city as expansion area for its call center operations.
Representatives of Minacs, a company based in Bangalore, India met with City Mayor Alipio Fernandez, Jr. yesterday to discuss the possibility of establishing a call center in the city. Representatives of the Department of Trade and Industry and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority also attended the meeting.
The group also visited the various colleges and universities in the city for the possible hiring of agents.
It was gathered that call center agents earlier recruited from Pangasinan are now working in Manila and other places where the operations of the call center companies are based. About 700 were said to have been recruited from the province, according to Tesda.
The upper floors of the new Malimgas market on Galvan street was earlier reported as an ideal site for call center operations because of wide space.
The Indian company is also eyeing Urdaneta City for its expansion plans, it was learned. (PIA-Pangasinan)
