Monday, June 5, 2006

Coimbatore as Hardware hub and Trichy as software hub?!

C Chandramouli, secretary for Information Technology in the Tamil Nadu Government talks about the IT initiative in Tamil Nadu...

As mentioned earlier, there is a new IT policy which is to be announced which would support the IT and ITES companies who already have shops in Tamil Nadu and also for those who want to set Tamil Nadu as their base for operations.

Shortly, we would also be announcing two Special Economic Zones (SEZ) at Sholinganallur and Coimbatore for which the proposals are pending with the IT Ministry at the Centre.

Apart from that we are also looking at improving the infrastructure at Tier-2 towns such as Coimbatore and Trichy. While Trichy is to be promoted as a software hub, Coimbatore has all the essential features to be promoted as a hardware hub.

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