Science, Information Technology and Transport Minister Bhupendra Singh has said Madhya Pradesh has become the first State to begin Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dream project ‘Make in India’ by setting up electronic manufacturing sector clusters and Information Technology Park.
While presenting the ‘Report Card’ of his department’s achievements after completion of one year in the office, Singh told mediapersons that Modi had lauded the project during the recently held Global Investors’ Summit (GIS) at Indore. He claimed that as many as 10,000 people would get job from this project for which Rs100 crore would be invested and work would also begin soon.
The Minister said, “Ultra modern electronic chips would be manufactured in the State capital soon after setting up of Semiconductor Fabrication Plant at a cost of an estimated Rs34,000 cr investment and about 1.25 lakh people would get job in the company. He informed that 600 acres land was already earmarked for the ambitious I-T Park in six cities including the state capital. “MP also became the second highest E-governance State with transaction of over Rs80 cr electronic goods during the past one-and-half years. Besides, data centres, state-wide-area network, state portal are being developed in the state,” Singh said.
Talking about GIS, Singh said a total of 72 proposals were received for I-T sector and Rs1,121 cr proposals were sanctioned. He said about 25,000 people would get employment through different I-T projects which are coming up soon.