Not only it has earned the unique distinction of the only state capital in eastern India to have the presence of the big four i.e. Infosys, Satyam, TCS and Wipro, but also it is making all out effort to attract other major IT players in the country.
The persistent efforts of the state IT department is reflected in the signing of an MoU between MindTree Consulting Pvt Ltd with the Orissa government for setting up a development centre in Bhubaneswar today.
The company has been allotted approximately 30 acres in Infocity and will be starting construction of the centre within the next financial year. The centre is likely to come up within a period of 12-18 months.
MindTree will employ at least 1000 software professionals within a period of 2 years of their operation and has long term plan of employing about 5000 people at Bhubaneswar over next five years.
As the first step, MindTree has started recruiting from Orissa and recently recruited a few MBA graduates from Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar.
MindTree is billed to be the biggest IT recruiter in the state.
The largest of them at present, Infosys, proposes to take its head count to 4,500 by 2008.
The MoU was singed by Subroto Bagchi, chief operating officer of MindTree, and SN Tripathy, secretary IT department, Orissa government in the presence of chief minister Naveen Patnaik, IT minister SN Patro and chief secretary Subas Pani and other senior officials.
Bagchi said, MindTree, at present, is engaged in providing affordable business and technology solutions through its global software development.
The company has its offices in California and Illinois in the US, UK, France, Middle East, India, Singapore, Japan and Australia.
While Infosys and Satyam are present in the city since 1996-97, TCS and Wipro have acquired land in Infocity recently.
TCS has engaged the world renowned architect and planner Venkat Raman & Associates for designing the Bhubaneswar centre.
A team led by N Chandrasekharan, executive vice president of TCS, had recently met the state chief secretary and showed him the development plans of a Bhubaneswar centre.
At present TCS has taken a full floor in Fortune Tower and plans to start the centre within this calendar year with about 250 software professionals.
Similarly, a team from Wipro Technologies led by it CIO, Laxman Badiga had also visited Bhubaneswar last month to finalise Wipro's plans to start their development centre here.
Wipro, sources said, is keen to start its operation in the city within this calendar year with about 250 software professionals from one of the existing buildings in Infocity.
Other major IT companies including Hexaware Technologies, Ramtech Systems etc have also finalised plans for starting operations at Bhubaneswar.
source: Business-Standard,
March 28, 2006
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