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Assam woos State IT industry

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Another IT hub to be created in Guwahati
Requirement of IT firms being examined

BANGALORE: Assam is recovering from socially turbulent times and is now looking to embark on a phase of development, particularly in infrastructure and creation of facilities for inviting Information Technology industry into the State, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has said.

Mr. Gogoi, who was in the city visiting various IT and infrastructure facilities, also visited the Congress office and exchanged views with Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president Mallikarjuna Kharge.

Speaking to presspersons, he said that the Assam Government was now keen on creating another Information Technology hub in Guwahati and in other tier two cities in the State. Infosys and Wipro have already have intimated their participation and the government was proceeding with various clearances including formalising subsidies and allocation of lands for their projects.

Mr. Gogoi said he had a couple of rounds of talks with N.R. Narayana Murthy of Infosys and, as per his request, the Government was examining the requirement of the company pertaining to land, infrastructure and hospitality industry inputs.

Mr. Gogoi said the State was in the overdrive mode on infrastructure particularly roads, bridges, connectivity to vital infrastructure such as airports, industrial estates and interstate highways. Mr. Gogoi said Assam had remained backward owing to its internal socio-economic problem, but the State was now showing signs of economic recovery and high propensity to grow. It has become politically stable and the ULFA separatist movement had more or less merged with mainstream society.

Mr. Gogoi visited the Infosys campus, the Indian Institute of Science, the Indian Institute of Management and held discussions with key persons in the transport industry.

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