Official apathy blamed for delay in work at Aryabhata Tech Park
Staff Correspondent - The Hindu
Building permission not being issued to IT companies: Shettar
For students: Speaker of the Legislative Assembly Jagadish Shettar inaugurating ‘CET Catalyst Regular’, a satellite-based interactive training programme, at the Information Technology Park in Hubli on Sunday.
HUBLI: Speaker of the Legislative Assembly Jagadish Shettar has taken strong exception to “official apathy” which he said has hindered work at the Aryabhata Tech Park in Hubli.
He was inaugurating the “CET Catalyst Regular”, a satellite-based coaching programme for students appearing for entrance tests for admission to professional courses, at the Information Technology Park here on Sunday.
Gumbi Software and Edusource Consultance Services (ECS) have, for the first time in the State, designed the interactive live training programme.
Although the State Government had allotted 26 acres of land to information technology (IT) and IT-enabled services companies at the Aryabhata Tech Park, between Hubli and Dharwad, the municipal corporation authorities were delaying the work there, Mr. Shettar said.
Some of the IT companies which had been allotted land at the park had performed “bhoomi puja”. However, they were unable start construction because they were not being issued building permission, he said.
Mr. Shettar said he had taken up the issue with the authorities concerned, and he would be forced to take it up with the Government if the official apathy continued.
The former president of the Karnataka Chamber of Commerce and Industry Madan Desai, who heads the Land Allotment Committee for the tech park, said the committee had proposed to allot another 10 acres of land at the park to six IT companies.
H. Devanand, Manager of Karnataka State Electronics Development Corporation Ltd., said that in the last few months five companies had taken 26,000 sqft of space in the IT Park and termed it an encouraging development.
Managing Director of Gumbi Software Harsha Mahabala, Chief Administrative Officer of ECS K.K. Bhat, General Manager of BSNL Dharwad Telecom District S.S. Sindagi and Sadashiva Bhat were present. Under the programme, experts from Boscoss Publication will teach lessons from the Edusource Studio in Mangalore and students can interact with them with the help of special software designed by Gumbi Software.
