IT Minister, Manab Mukherjee with CM
Highlights:
“We have received investment worth Rs 2,000 crore in telecom and Rs 500 crore in IT and IT-enabled services since 2001-2002,” information technology minister Manab Mukherjee said. In his budget speech in the Assembly, the minister described the growth as “phenomenal”.
The government hopes to earn 10 per cent of the country’s revenue from the infotech sector by 2006-’07. “By 2010, we hope to earn 15 per cent of the country’s revenue from the IT sector,” Mukherjee said.
Efforts are on to get IT giant Infosys to invest in the state. Mukherjee pointed out that big players like IBM, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Cognizant Technology Solutions and ITC Infotech are here already.
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