New Delhi: The information technology (IT) sector, with an average gross salary of Rs.341.80 per hour, has emerged as the most lucrative industry in India, a study conducted by a career and recruitment solutions provider in the country said here Tuesday. 

According to Monster Salary Index, which is aimed at successfully providing job seekers with a benchmark to compare their salaries with other anonymous profiles across a broad spectrum of industry domains in India and other global markets, the IT sector earns 45 percent more than other sectors. Analysing the trends of the Indian market, the report shows that with a median gross salary of Rs.291, finance is the second most lucrative sector. 

The salary index shows that the median gross salary in the construction sector stood at Rs.259 per hour, education at Rs.186.5, healthcare at Rs.215, legal aid at Rs.215.6 and manufacturing and transport at Rs.230.9. In a developing economy like India, the manufacturing sector forms its backbone. The analysis of the sector shows that the median salary is Rs.230.9 per hour, a figure that is slightly lower than the average in the whole economy. 

Nonetheless, disparities in salary exist in the sector on the basis of educational qualification/skills of an individual, the report said. It also highlighted that education sector gets the lowest hourly salary of Rs 186.50 per hour. This can be attributed to the fact that there are relatively more women working here than in other sectors. Women are paid 18 percent lesser than men in the same sector, the report said. “We are pleased to bring forth the findings of the first of its kind index in the country. This intellectual property has been created with a foresight to equip the industry at large. 

The country is on the edge of a new wave of development, which is expected to deliver jobs and prosperity to millions,” said Sanjay Modi, the managing director (India/Middle East/ Southeast Asia/Hong Kong). Globally, the same survey indicates that females in the workplace are not being compensated in the same way as their male counterparts. 

While there has been a great increase in the number of women in supervisory positions, this does not reflect in the salary that those women are receiving. “The two welcome highlights of the finance sector are that it has emerged second in the league of lucrative careers. Secondly the gender pay gap is 19 percent which is lower than the average in the Indian economy. On the other hand, the IT sector which leads the game has a gender pay gap where women earn around 34 percent less than men,” Modi added.

AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh on Tuesday lambasted his party’s senior leaders in the State for not organizing protests against the people’s representatives, who had defected from party. The AICC leader pulled up the leaders for not performing well in the Assembly and also for their failure to strengthen the party in the State. 

He was speaking at the brainstorming session held with Coordination Committee meeting at Gandhi Bhavan on Tuesday. It was a part of three-day tour of Digvijay Singh. Digvijay reportedly questioned them as to why they failed to launch agitation in a democratic manner against the defected MLAs and MLCs. He suggested to the party coordination committee members to lodge complaints against MLAs and MLCs in the High Court and fight for justice.

He also lashed out at the leaders for not cooperating with each other in fighting with government’s defective politics and policies. Expressing his displeasure over the party affairs, Digvijay asked the senior leaders to go all with one voice in order to strengthen the party in the State. The AICC leader said, “Except our student organization, all other student organizations were protesting against the TRS government’s FAST Scheme”. 

He advised them to work together and help strengthen the party by burying differences amongst them, according to one of the members of Coordination Committee, who preferred anonymity. The AICC leader also enquired about the defections in the party since the TRS formed the government. Digvijay reportedly felt that the party leaders at the helm of the affairs in the State were not serious in tackling defections.

No, this not Amul Butter’s latest ad. But this is the latest retort of TDP to remarks made by TRS members. Recently, TRS MLA Balaraju and MLC Karne Prabhakar called Lokesh Amul Boy. So, TDP’s official spokesperson N Narasi Reddy has responded to their curt remark by saying, ‘Amul Taste of India, Lokesh Best of India’. 

He said that Lokesh constantly worried about people and thought of doing his best for him unlike others who were power hungry. Reddy also said that Lokesh did not have the extortion history that KCR and his family had. 

He pointed that Lokesh has the rare distinction of organizing and holding a fund for the welfare of TDP cadre. It was necessary for all TRS leaders to look into their backgrounds before making negative statements about Lokesh, said Reddy. 

Karne Prabhakar is known to have collected money from industrialists in Nalgonda, reminded Reddy. If TRS leaders point fingers at Lokesh, then his party will be forced to disclose the kind of jobless people who were given posts and the reasons for their choice, warned Reddy.

There is more to it than what meets the eye in the Supreme Court granting bail to mining baron and former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy on Tuesday in the Obulapuram illegal mining case. 

The Central Bureau of Investigation, which probed the scam, did not raise any objection to the bail petition of Gali, stating that the investigation in the case involving Reddy was complete and both the charge-sheet as well as the supplementary charge-sheet had been filed. 

Taking on record the submission of the agency, a bench headed by Chief Justice H L Dattu said, “Since the investigating agency has no objection in granting bail, we are granting bail to the petitioner (Reddy).” The CBI has followed the same procedure it had done in case of YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy. 

In case of Jagan, too, the CBI toned down the chargesheets and did not oppose Jagan’s bail petition, allegedly under the pressure from then powers-that-be. In case of Gali, too, sources said the CBI had acted under pressure from the BJP government.

Websites are becoming profitable source for those who indulge in sex rackets. Many fraudsters are using websites for hi tech prostitution. Many of them are using websites like Locanto, Backpage, Craigslist for their prostitution business. 

Recently Hyderabad police conducted raids and busted a sex racket in a house in Gachchibowli on Monday night. They arrested two pimps and saved four girls. Mohamad Irfan from Barkas in Hyderabad along with his colleague Baba is running these sex rackets with these websites. 

The duo using true caller check the customers identity and once they are satisfied with their customers, they send them photos of girls and their snaps to the girls. Police on investigation found out that they are using even whatsapp for their secret hi tech prostitution. 

They have been running this business appointing two women Durga and Lakshmi as caretakers.