HYDERABAD: The Government has decided to allot 119 acres to hardware firms at Puppalaguda in Hyderabad and 15 to 20 acres at Madhurawada in Visakhapatnam. It would like to make similar allotment in Vijayawada but it has not yet found suitable land there.

Information Technology Minister P. Sabitha Indra Reddy said necessary MoUs for transfer of the lands would be signed at GITEX India-2006, being organised at the Hitex Centre here by the Dubai World Trade Centre and the State's IT Department from January 11 to 13.

Briefing reporters on the fifth edition of the GITEX here on Thursday, the Minister and K. Ratna Prabha, Principal Secretary, IT Department, said the land allotments and other incentives were subject to some conditions to be fulfilled by the firms like providing jobs to at least 1,000 persons each.

Meanwhile, all arrangements have been made for GITEX. The exhibition is going to be a bigger event being participated by some 90 firms compared with 69 last time. The new entrants include SQL, Portal Player, Net4India, Eurostar, etc.

For the "Job Fair" being organised by The Hindu in coordination with Eenadu and ETV, some 5,000 candidates registered their names. The request for placement can be e-mailed to www.careers.ap.gov.in/

www.apit.gov.in/www.tmifirst.com/www.hindu.com. Business delegations from Poland, Korea, Taiwan, China, Middle East, Europe and South East Asia are likely to visit the venue.

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