Conference On IT In March

Soon after taking charge as Minister for Information Technology, Ponnala Lakshmaiah announced March 1st and 2nd in 2011 as the tentative dates for an international conference which was aimed to attract the attention of investors in the IT sector.

In order to spread IT applications to nook and corner of Andhra Pradesh for the benefit of common man, the government has taken initiative of offering special incentives and facilities to promote IT to two and three tier cities like Visakhapatnam, Kakinada, Vijayawada, Tirupati, Warangal, Nalgonda and others, the minister said.

'Advantage AP 2011 - The Most Preferred Destination' is a 2-day international conference that the state government has decided to organise here in tandem with IT and ITES companies, Industry Association of AP and ITSEZs/ IT park developers to provide a forum to IT and ITES, academic institutes, and consumers of various industries to increase prospects.

Apart from the thrust in investments, the idea was to increase the employment potential in the state.

Stating that the government would offer better services to the common man, the minister said that they would bring in certain changes in the current set-up for the benefit of common man. The IT potential would be fully utilised to the advantage of poor people, he said.

For the purpose of demonstrating that he was IT savvy, Lakshmaiah informed that he was one among the first five to have received the first batch of domestic internet connections.

As his first official task on taking charge as the minister, Lakshmaiah signed a file at the Secretariat on Wednesday, allotting 1 acre APIIC land for setting up an IT facility to Vision 2K, a small and medium enterprise headed by a lady entrepreneur Saudamini Rao in Warangal.

The minister told media persons that his government was determined to expand the IT industry in a big way by offering incentives to some of the top IT companies to set up their industries here.

Courtesy: INN