A ₹6,00,000 quote for 875 hours implies about ₹685 an hour. How an Indian founder audits that rate, tests whether the hours are real, checks the vendor against public records, and finds the line items that turn into extras later.
What Outsourcing to India Actually Looks Like in 2026
The stereotype is twenty years out of date. What the industry now consists of, why global capability centres are the real story, how NASSCOM and the Economic Survey disagree on the numbers and why that matters, the tier-2 city shift, why Indian firms themselves outsource to the Philippines, and how to verify a vendor using public Indian company records.