Thank you, Mr. Singh. The next question is from the line of Mr. Anthony Miller from Tech Market View, please go ahead.
Anthony Miller – Tech Market View
Well, hello gentlemen! Just a couple of points for clarification please, and then just some data plans. In terms of hiring you said that you will hire all the job offers to freshers that you made last year, but you weren’t sure about timeframes. What do you think the hitch could be? Are we talking about in matter of weeks or could it be a couple of quarters and would you expect any fall off from that?
V. Srinivas
Srinivas here, we will not be able to give any timeframes here. I think other than just saying that we will be able to take them on board and honor our commitments as early as we could rather than that at this point in time, giving the timeframe will be very difficult.
Anthony Miller – Tech Market View
Okay, back with the early point, there was a question about why European growth seems depressed compared to North America and you mentioned exchange rate was a factor in that. But if you were to nullify the effect of exchange rates would European growth still has been slower than America’s?
Ram Mynampati
In this quarter, yes.
Anthony Miller – Tech Market View
Well and why would that have been?
Ram Mynampati
Again, the same factors that we have been talking about, the impact of different market segments, the tangential impact of what''s happening in the US, in the European region, opportunities that are not closing in the timeframes that we are looking at; the same business parameters that we have talked about are the same reasons, nothing unique about the region.
Anthony Miller – Tech Market View
Nothing, okay and then just finally, I didn’t quite catch the number of gross adds in the introductory comment and also could you give the freshers and also the headcounts that you have pruned, the closing headcounts you have pruned, please?
V. Srinivas
In the gross addition Anthony for this year, we said will be anywhere between 8000 to 10000 that is…
Anthony Miller – Tech Market View
Sorry, I mean the gross-high, sir I mean the gross adds this quarter, the quarter just gone.
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