State Information and Technology, Science and Technology and Transport Minister Bhupendra Singh here on Saturday reiterated to make Madhya Pradesh a leading State on the IT map in the country.
While inaugurating the newly constructed building of the Madhya Pradesh State Electronic Development Corporation at Pardeshipura, the Minister said Madhya Pradesh finds second place in the country in the information and technology sector.In an era of globalisation, the IT sector in the country has grown manifold. Under the circumstances, it has become quiet important to promote IT in the State, he said adding that the State Government will make all possible efforts to
provide basic amenities to IT companies to set up their units in the state as the IT companies will provide large-scale employment to unemployed IT graduates.State IT secretary Hariranjan Rao said that the IT majors like Infosys and the TCS have already come to Indore, while many more such companies are knocking its door. Under the circumstances, it has become important for the State Government to provide all basic amenities required by IT companies.
In its endevour to provide basic and other essential amenities to the IT companies, the State IT department has hiked its annual budget from Rs9 crore to Rs200 crores, he added.