Friday, February 07, 2014: In its recent attempt to woo the IT and hardware manufacturing companies to invest in Odisha, the state government is holding a day long interaction with the same at New Delhi on 8 February. The Odisha government has approached nearly 50 companies belonging to the IT/ITes/ ESDM sector for the meet.
“After the unveiling of the new ICT policy, such interactions is timely and the focus will be on bringing the ESDM units to the state,” an official at the Office of the Principal Resident Commissioner, Government of Odisha, at New Delhi was quoted by Business Standard. With an objective to present the growing opportunities in the IT/ITes/ESDM sector and investor friendly policies of the state government, companies like TCS, Accenture, AMS semi-conductors among others have been invited and are likely to attend the meet.
Various departments concerned will prepare presentations on the state’s ICT policy, industrial policy and MSME policy to showcase the state’s business environment. Further, top management of leading IT hardware and ESDM companies have been urged to come and take full advantage of the opportunity to direct their resources to the state.