DH News Service Bangalore:
Minister of State for Labour Tanvir Sait on Wednesday said serious discussion was on to develop cities other than Bangalore to become IT hubs.
In his inaugural address at "Beyond Bangalore" conference organised as part of Bangalore IT.in , Mr Sait said that “This is the only way to generate employment and improve per capita income in smaller towns”.
Mysore and Mangalore were already growing as important destinations for IT industries and other cities like Hubli-Dharwad, Belgaum, Gulbarga, Davangere and Hassan had the potential to become IT hubs in the future, he said.
The government was taking all steps possible to ensure that all these destinations were well connected and had good infrastructure, he added.
Former chief secretary B S Patil said he was actively involved in promoting tier III cities in north Karnataka.
He felt that Hubli-Dharwad had everything that an industry would require to flourish. He also said that students from such areas probably lacked the polish that their counterparts in suburban areas had. But he was president of an organisation called BIC (BPO.Ites.Com) that was addressing this issue by setting up a "Finishing School" where students were trained appropriately, he added.
Head of Software Paradigms, India, Sid Mookherjee said his experience in setting up and running his firm from Mysore had been very smooth. He pointed out that in many ways Mysore was better than Bangalore (less commuting time, less pollution, cheaper real estate, etc.)
Mr Ramakrishnan M D, Efftronics, Vijayawada, said that his own experience of operating shop from a smaller city had also been very positive.
Mr Kurien James, CEO, Manipal Informatics, said that in his experience neutralising accents (for those who were to work in call centres) was easiest in Karnataka.
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