Maharashtra to develop newer IT hubs to ease burden on Pune, Mumbai
The Hindu
Incentives will be given to IT sector for projects in tier 2, 3 cities
In a bid to shore up infrastructure in tier 2 and tier 3 cities and reduce the rush of job-hunting in Pune and Mumbai, the Maharashtra government will roll out a policy with notable incentives for the Information Technology sector for setting up projects in Nagpur, Amaravati, Latur and Satara, among others. Minister of State for Information Technology and Home Satej Patil announced that the Uddhav Thackeray-led ‘Maha Vikas Aghadi’ government aimed to develop these cities into IT hubs and reduce the burden on Pune and Mumbai, which are saturated with IT parks. “Mumbai and Pune have been leading in the IT sector not just in the State but also in the country. They are, however, saturated due to massive inter-State and inter-city migration and catering to the job demands of lakhs of people in Maharashtra and India. We now want to take this progress to tier 2 and 3 cities like Nagpur, Satara, Amaravati, Latur, Nanded and others by giving incentives to industries there. Industries will be helped with various facilities like electricity and others through a separate IT policy. We have come out with a request for proposal (RFP) model to facilitate the sector with simplified procurement process,” said Mr. Patil.
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