Mumbai: BPO powerhouse India is also winning accolades at the global outsourcing arena with three Indian companies — Wipro, Bharti Airtel and Bank of India — bagging `The Outsourcing Excellence Awards'', dubbed as ''Oscars of Outsourcing''.

The awards, presented by the online community Outsourcing Center, are given for the world''s best outsourcing arrangements.

Wipro-Nortel Networks, Bharti Airtel-Nortel Networks and Bank of India-Hewlett Packard combine are among the nine winners for this year, US-based consultancy firm Everest Group said in a statement.

The awards, sponsored by the Everest Group and US-based business magazine Forbes, would be presented in New York in August.

Wipro-Nortel has been awarded the "Best Offshore" award for its 15-year old partnership, BoI-HP won the ''Best IT Infrastructure'' award for implementing a core banking solution a year ahead of schedule and Bharti-Nortel has been given the "Best First Steps" award for best practices in outsourcing, the statement said.

"In addition to the fact that three of the nine winners in 2007 were Indian companies, a large number of the US-based service providers this year are delivering services from offshore locations. Three-fourths of the nominated offshore services were provisioned from India," Everest Group country-head (India) Gaurav Gupta said in the statement.

"Although these (awards) range from Russia to eastern Europe to the Philippines and China, three-fourths of the nominated offshore services are provisioned from India," he added.