'Infrastructure, a major impediment in growth of IT sector'
Orissa needs to create better infrastructure and nourish skilled manpower for the development of Information Technology in the state, IT czars said.
By PTI |
BHUBANESWAR: Orissa needs to create better infrastructure and nourish skilled manpower for the development of Information Technology in the state, IT czars said.
Orissa's capital possesses the potential to emerge as a major destination of IT companies, the city must improve its infrastructure, echoed Infosys CEO K Gopal Krishnan and Mindtree's Subrat Bagchi at a national convention on IT here.
"Most of the productivity hours of IT professionals are wasted due to traffic jam in metroes. Orissa should ensure that such situation doesn't arise," Krishnan said claiming that Infosys was the first to set up its centre in the state.
Calling for an immediate need of metro train service in the city, Krishnan said city planning played an important role in development of IT sector.
He also stressed on the need for world-class plumbers and carpenters for creating better office space which was a prerequisite for any IT firm.
Intel's South Asia Managing Director Ramamurthy Shivshankar said the country would have 500 million people who need to be connected to the Internet by 2012, so the requisite infrastructure should be created.
Promising all assistance to the IT firms, Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said the state would soon prepare a talent development strategy for growth of IT and ITES and promised all support to the IT companies.
Orissa's growth in IT sector was more than the national average, he claimed.
Orissa's capital possesses the potential to emerge as a major destination of IT companies, the city must improve its infrastructure, echoed Infosys CEO K Gopal Krishnan and Mindtree's Subrat Bagchi at a national convention on IT here.
"Most of the productivity hours of IT professionals are wasted due to traffic jam in metroes. Orissa should ensure that such situation doesn't arise," Krishnan said claiming that Infosys was the first to set up its centre in the state.
Calling for an immediate need of metro train service in the city, Krishnan said city planning played an important role in development of IT sector.
He also stressed on the need for world-class plumbers and carpenters for creating better office space which was a prerequisite for any IT firm.
Intel's South Asia Managing Director Ramamurthy Shivshankar said the country would have 500 million people who need to be connected to the Internet by 2012, so the requisite infrastructure should be created.
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Promising all assistance to the IT firms, Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said the state would soon prepare a talent development strategy for growth of IT and ITES and promised all support to the IT companies.
Orissa's growth in IT sector was more than the national average, he claimed.
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