KOLKATA: Though the West Bengal government decided against proceeding with the joint sector integrated information technology (IT) township near Rajarhat in the outskirts of the city in North 24 Parganas district, it is keen on providing alternative land to IT majors like Wipro and Infosys who were to set up facilities in the township.
According to earlier plans, the two IT companies were to be provided 90 acres of land each. Separate Memoranda of Understanding was signed by the State and each of the two companies to this effect in April 2008.
But, having decided withdraw from the project, because the government did not want to become a party to land dealings by a partner in the joint sector company entrusted with the setting up of the proposed IT township, the State government expressed its inability to keep its assurance of providing the land to the two companies for the moment.
CM to take decision
The State government will be persuading the two companies to set up their facilities elsewhere. “It is trying to ensure that they (Wipro and Infosys) stay (in the State),” the State Housing Minister, Goutam Deb, said after a meeting of the State Secretariat of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) here on Friday. The alternative sites on which they could come up will be decided following discussions with the Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, once he returns from north Bengal, he added.
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