West Bengal government on Wednesday finalised its IT policy at the meeting of the cabinet standing committee on industries. Informing this, IT minister Partha Chatterjee told reporters at Writers' Buildings that the new incentive schemes for IT industry will be announced within a fortnight.
He also said that they have urged Infosys co-founderNR Narayana Murthy to come to Kolkata and hold talks with the government to set up their unit in the state.
"The chief minister is very keen to see Infosys set up their unit in West Bengal. We have categorically told Infosys that it would not be possible for our government to give them SEZ status as we are principally opposing setting up of any SEZ in West Bengal. But we have clearly told the Infosys officials that we will try our best to offer them adequate facilities. Since many senior Infosys officials who were holding talks with our government have left the organisation, it seems that we will have to initiate fresh dialogues with the company," Chatterjee said. The minister also said that if necessary, they will amend the SEZ Act passed by the previous Left Front government in 2003.
"We have also decided that we will provide land to ITC and Infotech at Rajarhat," Chatterjee informed. The minister said that two private companies had submitted expressions of interest for setting up Indian Institute of Information Technology at Kalyani in Nadia district.
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