West Bengal on the growth bandwagon of IT, ITeS and ESDM soon
West Bengal aims to increase its share of revenues from IT, ITeS and Electronic Systems Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) segment. During the CPIM regime due to frequent strikes, old industries had closed down and the new industries did not open fearing losses and closure.
Trinamool Congress led government is trying to change the face of the state and lure industries to the state. Amit Mitra the State IT, Finance, Commerce & Industry Minister stated that the aim of his government is to project West Bengal amongst the top three destinations by 2020 in terms of IT, ITeS and ESDM.
Currently, the State’s share in the IT and ITeS’ revenue accounts for just 4 %. Mitra mentioned that his government has taken all the measures to lure these three sectors. The State is also setting up 13 IT parks in tier-II and tier-III locations like Durgapur, Siliguri. Haldia, Malda, Kalyani, among others.
He also mentioned that eight of the IT parks are under construction, while work on five others will begin soon. Apart from this the state is also planning to set up eight hardware clusters.
While six of these, one each in Kolkata, Howrah, Durgapur, Kharagpur, Haldia and Siliguri will be Brownfield ones. The other two one each in Naihati and Falta are Greenfield projects. All these measures will create jobs for the youth of the state and they will not have to migrate to other states for work as has been the trend in the last few years.
Source- The Hindu Business Line
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