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Rajiv Dabhadkar (born 12 March 1968) is an Indian Technocrat, author, columnist and CEO & Founder of "National Organization for Software and Technology Professionals", which is a knowledge (tech) worker advocacy organization with a focus on wage discrimination and worker rights issues.[1][2]
Early life and education[edit]
Rajiv Dabhadkar has studied in General Education Academy. He has earned a Master's in Computer Science from Monmouth University Political Science and Sociology Department and has lived in the United States of America and has an MBA from Saint Peter's University.[3]
Activism[edit]
Dabhadkar began with the objective of changing the perception of the Indian knowledge workers working overseas, especially in the United States. Wage discrimination and abuse of guest workers rights has been the primary focus communicated via many of his commissioned media initiatives.[4]
He has been advocating reforms towards the foreign guest worker issues in The Americas and has been interacting with domain experts, key stakeholders and final policymakers of the H-1B & L-1 visa program on the Capitol Hill in the United States. Dabhadkar has testified to the judiciary committee on Immigration in early 2007, made contributions to the proposal draft for guest knowledge worker reforms leading to the drafting of the 'Visa Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act of 2007' bill proposal that aimed to prevent visa misuse, document fraud and abuse of guest worker rights in the immigration process.[2]
His research work has been cited by the UK Border Agency as well as the US Homeland Security.[5]
Dabhadkar has effectively communicated his research findings with key American tech worker organizations and a series of media initiatives were commissioned jointly to bring awareness to the issues of bypassing local talent and creating segregation of workers both foreign guest workers as well as local citizens.[6][7]
He works with the Indian Ministry of External Affairs and the Indian Missions abroad on assisting and repatriating ‘stranded’ Indian Citizens abroad that are victims of employer related abuse.
Rajiv advises companies on immigration and global mobility issues and mentors technology Start-ups at the Department of Science and Technology backed Technology Business Incubators.[8]
Rajiv Dabhadkar returned to India, after staying more than a decade in the United States of America, and founded The National Organization for Software and Technology Professionals (NOSTOPS) in April 2004.[9][10] He joined hands with Bright Future Jobs as an American lobbying partner to end the xenophobic anti-guest worker sentiments.[11][12]
Mr. Dabhadkar is a mentor and Incubation Partner to the social body of IIT Mumbai, Abhyuday, to nurture, handhold and incubate social entrepreneurship startups. He mentor's startup entrepreneurs at the Founder's Garage program at the IIT Mumbai.[5]
Publication[edit]
- Green Carrot - Americas Work Visa Crisis, 2014, p:204, ISBN: 1500929107[13][14]
- "Americanisms - The Guide for Indian BPO Industry", 2005, p:157, ASIN:B005D3TF6E
Reference list[edit]
- ^ "Universities encourage student entrepreneurs to boost startup culture - EducationTimes.com". Educationtimes.com.
- ^ a b "America's high-tech sweatshops". NBC News. 4 October 2009.
- ^ "The Data Driver: Will technocrat Rajiv Dabhadkar's new initiative 'PROVE' to be the game-changer?". www.thedatadriver.com. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
- ^ Dabhadkar, Rajiv (June 4, 2006). "Indian techies in US plan for sick-in strike". Financial Express. Retrieved June 4, 2006.
- ^ a b Agarwal, Malia Politzer & Surabhi (23 June 2011). "Misuse of US visas may be widespread". mint.
- ^ Gross, Grant (2 June 2014). "Tech worker groups boycott IBM, Infosys, Manpower". Computerworld.
- ^ Smith, Matt (21 November 2014). "Visa fraud in US tech industry relies on falsified job letters". Reveal News.
- ^ "Indian techies are losing out on all major markets". TJinsite.
- ^ "NOSTOPS Launches IndiaVerified.com To Curb Document Fraud-Business News , Firstpost". Firstpost. 13 August 2008.
- ^ "National Organization for Software and Technology Professionals -". National Organization for Software and Technology Professionals. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
- ^ "Indian Hustle: How Fraudsters Prey on Would-be US Tech Workers". CNN iReport. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
- ^ Thibodeau, Patrick (28 February 2005). "The H-1B Equation". Computerworld. Retrieved 2016-03-17.
- ^ "Reviews - Green Carrot - America's Work Visa Crisis". store.pothi.com.
- ^ "Green Carrot The Book Reviews: "Green Carrot - America's Work Visa Crisis" || Kumar Exclusive". YouTube. KUMAR EXCLUSIVE.