The Andhra Pradesh Government will extend its support to Goa State in IT services. A formal consent is given to Goa IT Minister Rohan by his AP counterpart, Nara lokesh. Goa Minister visited Amaravati Secretariat on Friday along with his officers. lokesh has shown Secretariat to Rohan in a short visit and explained what conditions made to construct temporary Secretariat in a six months time. After a while, lokesh has given an elaborative presentation on AP Government initiatives in e-Governance presently
implementing and future initiatives already planned. IT Minister met CM Chandrababu Naidu also.
lokesh explained about AP Policies on IT, Electronics, Cyber Security, Start Ups, designated Tech Parks apart from Real Time Governance, Core Dash Board, e-Pragathi, AP Fiber Grid etc. He further explained how AP Government is successfully using technology in public issues. Rohan has shown interest on functional expertise of Core Dash Board and sought many clarifications over it. On satisfaction, Rohan requested lokesh to extend support in implementation of e-Governance in their State.
AP IT Principle Secretary K Vijayanand, RTGS CEO Babu, OSD Kiran Gutta, OSD Ranjit Basha and others participated in the meeting.
In another meeting lokesh reviewed Electronics Industrial development and employment generation in that sector. Almost 36 new Electronics and IT companies started their activities and provided 1,800 employment, Principle Secretary Vijayanand informed to his Minister. He told, additional 1,800 employment will be created very soon after Major companies such as Franklin Temple, ANSR are established their units along with some other companies. lokesh also discussed about IT office space availability, Public Transportation facilities available, land Bank to be created for IT companies coming in near future.
lokesh suggested officers to update real time track on investment and employment generated into Core Dash Board. He enquired about companies expressed interest to come to AP in Chief Minister’s recent visit to US and companies signed MOUs to invest in AP.