{"id":120537,"date":"2021-11-22T18:37:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T01:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=120537"},"modified":"2021-11-22T18:37:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T01:37:09","slug":"high-commissioner-milinda-moragoda-visits-headquarters-of-hcl-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/11\/22\/high-commissioner-milinda-moragoda-visits-headquarters-of-hcl-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"High Commissioner Milinda Moragoda visits headquarters of HCL Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">High Commission of Sri Lanka<\/strong> <strong>New Delhi <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s High Commissioner\nto India Milinda Moragoda visited the headquarters of the global Information\nTechnology giant HCL Technologies in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The 50-acre campus\nhouses 25,000 employees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>High Commissioner Moragoda&#8217;s\nvisit to the HCL Technologies headquarters in Noida came just days ahead of the\nfirst anniversary of HCL operations in Sri Lanka and the grand opening of the\nCompany&#8217;s new facility in Sri Lanka. HCL Technologies has leased 20 floors\n(200,000 sq. ft.) of an iconic commercial building in Colombo for their new\noffice, which will be inaugurated on 25 November 2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HCL in Sri Lanka will provide\nhigh-paying IT employment opportunities to 1100 Sri Lankans initially, and is\nplanning to increase that number to 5000 in five years. The Company would hire\nhigh school graduates and offer them employment in the facility, while\nproviding 100% scholarships to complete their university degrees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>High Commissioner Moragoda,\nmet with the Company&#8217;s Chief Financial Officer Prateek Aggarwal and his senior\nmanagement team, and discussed extensively on the investments that the HCL Technologies\nhave made in Sri Lanka, and the ways and means to further expand those\ninvestments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HCL Technologies, a\nnext-generation global technology company with an annual revenue of 11 billion\nUS dollars, has offices in fifty countries including the United Kingdom, the\nUnited States, France, and Germany with a worldwide network of Research and\nDevelopment, innovation labs and delivery centres. Globally, it has over\n187,000 employees and its customers include 250 of the Fortune 500 and 650 of\nthe Global 2,000 companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HCL Sri Lanka would directly\nserve 49 Fortune 500 companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>High Commissioner Moragoda was\naccompanied by Deputy High Commissioner Niluka Kadurugamuwa, Minister\nCounsellor Gamini Sarath Godakanda and Senior Principal Secretary of the High Commission\nDeepak Nathani, while the Chief Financial Officer Aggarwal was accompanied by\nVice President-Strategy Abhinav Ghosh, Vice President Praveen Seth and Deputy\nManager-Strategic Initiatives- Chairman&#8217;s Office Ashish Yadav. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>High Commission of Sri Lanka<\/strong> <strong>New Delhi <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High Commission of Sri Lanka New Delhi Sri Lanka&#8217;s High Commissioner to India Milinda Moragoda visited the headquarters of the global Information Technology giant HCL Technologies in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The 50-acre campus houses 25,000 employees. High Commissioner Moragoda&#8217;s visit to the HCL Technologies headquarters in Noida came just days ahead of the first anniversary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}