PANJIM: Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar on Friday announced the drafting of information technology (IT) investment policy, which would invite national as well as international IT companies to invest in the State, and generate nearly 10,000 jobs in the sector in the next one-and-half year.
Parsekar, who is the IT minister, said that government in its Budget 2015-16 has proposed to set up an electronic city at Tuem industrial estate and IT park at Chimbel and in a bid to expedite the process, a committee comprising all heads of the departments concerned including town and country planning, forest, power and PWD has been constituted to grant required permissions.
“The process to formulate an IT investment policy has already started, with focus on creation of small IT clusters in open spaces and unused government properties,” Parsekar said.
The announcement came during the private members’ resolution moved by Independent MLA Rohan Khaunte which recommended that government should formulate its own IT policy since around 1,000 IT professionals who pass out from government educational institutions every year, around 80 percent engineers leave the State due to lack of jobs in IT industries in the State.
The resolution was later withdrawn following an
assurance from the chief minister.
