[nukkad] India's software young bloods no longer such a good catch

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Nukkies,
Just a thought..
Do girls get married to a person or His Country/Money??

Ashish
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BANGALORE, India, Aug 1 (AFP) - Software engineer B. Prakyath has trawled
 through an exhaustive list of 110 prospective brides in the past 10

 months, but the sound of wedding bells remain as distant as ever.








 The 25-year-old software developer with HCL Perot Systems in India's IT

 capital, Bangalore, is just one of thousands of young male software

 engineer who have seen their standing in India's job-conscious marriage

 market nosedive in recent months.



 Considered a prime catch just one year ago, software professionals are now

 strictly second division material, behind perennial stand-bys like

 chartered accountants.



 "It is a depressing scenario," said Prakyath, who finally approached a

 marriage bureau to help him select a bride.



 "For the last three or four months I have seen the majority of parents

 hesitating to marry off their daughters to a software engineer as they are

 not sure whether we will have our jobs next year," he said.



 "But I am not giving up hope and am still continuing the search."



 A global slowdown has forced technology companies in the United States and

 India to lay-off staff and freeze recruitment.



 Many Indian software engineers who earned 70,000 rupees (1,520 dollars) a

 month in the US have returned home, futher saturating the domestic IT job

 market.



 "People are gradually losing their confidence in the IT sector," said T.G.

 Shivraj, chief of Computer Audio-Visual Aided Matrimonial Bureau, which

 has more than 500 IT professionals on its books.



 "The parents of the bride are worried. They think there is no future in IT

 now. So they are delaying their proposals," said Shivraj, who opened his

 bureau 11 years ago and clocks an annual turnover of 10 million rupees.



 "Previously the IT sector was hot, now brides are shifting to management

 guys, chartered accountants and company secretaries. Indian brides look at

 the status of the person, secure jobs, property and the boy's family" he

 said.



 J. Rajshekar, a 26-year-old software developer with a well-known car firm

 in Bangalore enrolled with Shivraj's bureau five months ago and initially

 got 150 matches from the firm's computer.



 "My aim was to look for a graduate and good-looking girl with a decent

 family background. So I pruned the list to 30 prospective brides. But I

 found that none were willing because I was a software engineer," Rajshekar

 said.



 He said his friends who had lost their jobs were stranded with debts, and

 many were not even able to pay back their car loans.



 "They are out in the streets. I still have a job even though it will not

 take me to the US or pays me a huge salary. But the brides and parents are

 skeptical about IT now," Rajshekar said.



 HCL Perot's Prakyath said the return of software engineers from overseas

 had had a major impact, as one of the main incentives for marriage was the

 opportunity to live abroad, especially in the United States.



 "Out of 100 software engineers me and my friends knew about, 85 are back

 in India, many of them with horror stories about the way they were

 treated," Prakyath said.



 "I think the worst impact is being felt by the fresh engineering

 graduates. They have spent heavily on their education in private

 engineering colleges, only to face a situation where there are no jobs.



 "Now brides refusing to marry software engineers will only add to their

 troubles," he said.


Ashish A. Shah
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