Orissa IT export crosses Rs 1,300 cr

Business Line New facility: The Orissa Chief Minister, Mr Naveen Patnaik, flanked by the Minister for IT, Mr Ramesh Majhi (2nd from right), Mr S. Mahalingam (3rd from right), CFO and Executive Director of TCS, unveiling the foundation stone of Kalinga Park Phase-II of TCS in Bhubaneswar on Friday. — Photo: Ashoke Chakrabarty


CM launches Phase II of Kalinga IT Park

Bhubaneswar, Aug. 5: Orissa's IT exports crossed Rs 1,300 crore and provided direct employment to 10,000 during 2010-11, the Chief Minister, Mr Naveen Patnaik, said today. The State capital has also made good progress in the IT SEZ sector and to promote such Industries, IT SEZs were being established at Infocity and Infovalley here, Mr Patnaik said.

The industry-friendly ICT Policy 2011, the IT road map for the State, special economic zone policy and IT hardware policy were being prepared to attract more IT industries to the State. “Undoubtedly, the State has always been in the forefront in the IT revolution,” the Chief Minister said.

Source: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/info-tech/article2328665.ece

National Conference on Information Technology in Smart Product Management (IT SMPM 2011)

This conference will be held on 19th March and 20th March at KIIT University, Bhubaneswar supported by Dept. of Information Technolgoy, Govt. of India, New Delhi

Please refer the following link for interested participants

http://www.kiit.ac.in/pdf/mechconference.pdf

IT investment in Orissa region to be taken up at Rs 17,883-cr

The implementation of the proposed Information Technology (IT) investment region in Orissa will involve a cost of Rs 17,883 crore.

"The IT investment region would generate jobs for 0.23 million people and accommodate a population of around 0.54 million. More than 75 per cent of the investment will be made on the Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode”, an official source told Business Standard.

The state government has already submitted the final report on the proposed IT investment region prepared by IL&FS-Infrastructure Development Corporation (IL&FS-IDC) to the Government of India. Besides Orissa, the IT investment regions are set to come up in the states of Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala.

The IT investment region (ITIR) in Orissa is to be developed on an area of 40 sq km (around 10,000 acres) between Bhubaneswar and Khurda. The ITIR project is expected to be fully operational by 2020.

In the final project report on the ITIR, IL&FS-IDC had included among other things an airport, a global IT training centre, a bio-tech park and a science city spread over 350 acres.

The airport was proposed to be developed on an area of about 2,300 acres close to the site of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Orissa which is being set up over 900 acres of land at Jatni, about 20 km from the city. The Infocity-II project being built by the state government on over 600 acres of land at Janla on the outskirts of the city would also be a part of the IT investment region.

The ITIR would be developed in two phases out of which 20 per cent expenditure is committed for the first phase while the balance 80 per cent will be in the second phase.

Source: http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/it-investment-region-to-be-takenat-rs-17883-cr/420504/