How 3000 BPO jobs became IT jobs
By Bala Shah

The US had set up the H-1B visa program to hire on a short term basis highly skilled workers not available in America.  The ground reality is that some tech firms have used every loophole in the H-1B system to bring in low cost workers.  The ongoing misuse of the visas is an open secret.  Indian tech majors have used quality and competitive cost to win many US based jobs.

The American Government’s H1B as well as outsourcing policy has its fair share of supporters and critics.  The critics have lobbied powerful politicians, launched public campaigns and even started a number of anonymous blogs. There is much heat and some personal venom when the two sides clash.

In the debates and clashes between the pro and anti outsourcing lobbies, sometimes even basic facts are spun to exaggerate a point of view.

Case in point is the US Government overseas aid branch USAID’s attempts to help war ravaged Sri Lanka get back on its feet.  While the US Government’s Embassy in Sri Lanka describes their attempts to help local unemployed to get basic training as

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Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Alliance 

To help fill workforce gaps in BPO and IT, USAID is teaming with leading BPO and IT/English language training companies to establish professional IT and English skills development training centers in each of the five districts in the Northern Province.  Courses in Business Process Outsourcing, Enterprise Java, and English Language Skills will be offered at no charge to over 3,000 under- and unemployed students who will then participate in on-the-job training schemes with private firms. 
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A powerful American computing media site Information Week describes it as

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U.S. To Train 3,000 Offshore IT Workers

$22 million, federally-backed program aims to help outsourcers in South Asia become more fluent in areas like Java programming—and the English language.

Despite President Obama's pledge to retain more hi-tech jobs in the U.S., a federal agency run by a hand-picked Obama appointee has launched a $22 million program to train workers, including 3,000 specialists in IT and related functions, in South Asia.

Following their training, the tech workers will be placed with outsourcing vendors in the region that provide offshore IT and business services to American companies looking to take advantage of the Asian subcontinent's low labor costs.
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3000 mainly BPO workers were presented as 3000 IT workers. This US Embassy headlined their initiative as a BPO Alliance. The Information Week article was picked up by other US media which resulted in some more outsourcing bashing.