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Visakhapatnam , May 9

THERE is a proposal to set up an integrated institute to impart software skills to enable the local youth to derive benefit from the IT companies setting up business here, according to the Minister for Commercial Taxes, Mr K. Ramakrishna.

At a press meet here on Monday, the Minister said the Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, would lay the foundation stone for the centre of Satyam Computers on Tuesday on the old TB Hospital land.

He defended allotment of the prime site to the IT majors - Satyam Computers, Wipro and Infosys. He said only when such major companies were attracted to Vizag would it be possible to develop the city as a major IT centre. Therefore, there was no justification for the criticism being levelled against the Government for allotting the site to them.

A proposal for an integrated training institute by bringing together the major players was under consideration, he said. Satyam Computers, which had been allotted seven acres of the old TB Hopsital site, was seeking another 50 acres to set up a research and training centre, he added.

Mr Ramakrishna said Satyam Computers had been allotted land at the rate of Rs 50 lakh an acre, taking into account the offers made by other States. Registration would be completed only after the company fulfilled its job obligations, he clarified.

On the proposals of the Telugu Desam, CPM and others that the site be used for setting up a hospital, he said the Government was taking all steps for setting up the Vizag Institute of Medical Sciences for provision of advanced medicare and the King George Hospital here would also be improved with an additional investment of Rs 20 crore. Therefore, he said, there was no question of neglecting medicare.

The Chief Minister, during his two-day visit to the district from Tuesday, would also lay the foundation stone for modernisation of Raiwada canal to be taken up at a cost of Rs 23 crore, the Minister added.

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