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State IT secretary NN Sinha (centre) addresses a news meet on Infocom in Ranchi on Monday. Picture by Hardeep Singh
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Ranchi, July 24: It is three cheers for digital Jharkhand and Infocom.
The state’s third software technology park will soon come up in Sindri, Dhanbad, according to an MoU between the Arjun Munda government and Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) authorities that will be inked on July 25 as a part of Infocom, the debut outing of India’s largest IT business conference.
The four-acre Sindri tech park will come up on BIT-Sindri campus. Incidentally, STPI happens to be one of the associate sponsors of Infocom, a joint venture of the state government, The Telegraph and Businessworld to showcase the region’s advantages in front of big-ticket industry and knowledge players.
State IT department’s principal secretary N.N. Sinha told The Telegraph that they were “looking forward” to the MoU for the Sindri tech park. “STPI director general Omkar Rai is expected to exchange signed papers with Sinha, in the presence of chief minister Arjun Munda during an IT event (read Infocom) in Ranchi,” said a senior STPI official.
At present, an STPI unit or to put it in layman’s language, a tech park, functions from Namkum Industrial Area, Ranchi, which offers incubation facilities to a host of companies engaged in software development, business process outsourcing (BPO), call centre activities, among others. The second is proposed at Adityapur Industrial Area, Seraikela-Kharsawan, near Jamshedpur, for which an MoU has already been signed.
The Sindri site has strategic advantages — it is near Dhanbad and Bokaro, which makes access to metros Calcutta and New Delhi easy.
Infrastructure details will be firmed up gradually, but authorities said it would give maximum area to “incubation facilities” for upcoming IT companies, call centres, BPO centres, among others. STPI authorities said they were eyeing the speed button to e-enabled growth with IT parks in and around proposed STPI units in Adityapur Industrial Area and Sindri in future.
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