well, to discuss that we've brought together a panel of guests — manish sabharwal, chairman of recruitmentar—shaw, chairperson of biopharmaceutical company biocon, and mr dilpreet singh, who is the vice president of human resources at ibm india and south asia. thanks very much for being here with us today. i am going to start with you. so how bad is the situation actually? well, i think actually, you know, there is a huge challenge the world over. i thinkjobs growth is something that every economy is facing, and india is not alone. india of course has seen that it has been a pretty tough uphill task in terms of creating newjobs. in the last two decades we have seen 300 million people come into thejob market, and less than half of them, maybe 140 million, have been employed. and i think this number is steadily declining, so it is... and the population is increasing, so you can see that it is a big challenge. mr singh, your sector — it — and if you look more broadly, services, has been a big employment generator in india. in the past four or five years, do you think that situation has change