Kolkata: The central government has given its approval to the plan of setting up of an Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) in West Bengal. The information was disseminated by the state's Information Technology Minister Debesh Das. He said that the government of West Bengal has got an IIIT. The centre has sanctioned their proposal for setting up of the IIIT, he added.
Further, Mr. Das said that informed that the centre will provide 50 percent of the cost, state will provide 35 percent and the rest will come from the industry. In addition, he said that in 2006, the people working in the (infotech) sector was 32000 and in 2010 it stood at 105000. In 2006, IT export from the state was Rs 2700 crore and in 2010, it became Rs 6500 crore, he added.
Furthermore, Mr. Das told the sources that in these four years (from 2006 to 2010), several IT firms, including Infosys, Wipro, TCS, Patni and Tech Mahindra, bought land for their campuses here. They have more potential, to use this potential they need things (infrastructure) to be tripled in the coming three to four years, he added.
