New York — Mahindra, the Indian cars-to-technology conglomerate, plans to boost US investment as it prepares for the prospect that President Donald Trump will cut quotas for the H-1B visas needed to service clients at its outsourcing business. US investment and employment will be doubled in five years, said Pawan Goenka, MD at vehicle maker Mahindra & Mahindra. The company has already invested $1bn and employs 3,000 people in the country. The future of the H1-B programme, which allows US companies to employ foreign workers in specialist roles, has hung over Indian outsourcers since Trump was elected promising to restore jobs for US workers. Tech Mahindra, the IT services business, has been a top 10 sponsor of visas in the past three years, according to data from myvisajobs.com. About half of Tech Mahindra’s workers in the US are on H-1Bs, president of strategic verticals Lakshmanan Chidambaram told reporters in New York. To prepare for any cut in visas, the company is hiring more Am...
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