‘Outsourcing to rise 15-16 pct’

India’s back-office outsourcing business will post a growth of 15-16 percent in the year to March 2011 on growing demand from overseas clients,the head of a leading industry group said on Wednesday.

The export-driven sector has not seen any adverse impact from the European debt crisis,Som Mittal,president of the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM),told reporters. India’s back-office outsourcing sector is estimated to have grown 6 percent to $12.4 billion in the last fiscal year that ended in March.