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Infosys has hinted that it might soon expand its activities to the Hubli-Dharwad region.
The assurance to expand company’s activities to north Karnataka came during the Karnataka Minister for Information Technology, Biotechnology, Science and Technology S R Patil’s meeting with Infosys chief mentor N.R. Narayanamurthy, directors Kris Gopalakrishna, Shibu Lal and Ramadas Kamath.
The Minister and Infosys top management also discussed the ways and means to develop IT industries in tier II cities.
Narayanamurthy explained that the IT sector could create thousands of jobs with minimum land and power compared with other industries.
“Bangalore contributed almost 50 per cent of the State’s GDP mainly due to the revenue created by the IT industries. The IT companies in the State had been contributing about 36 per cent of India’s IT export. It was the one area where they needed to maintain focus,” he added.
Patil, accompanied by Narayanamurthy, had a glimpse of Infosys campus in an electric car.
Electronics City
Later, the minister visited the governing office of Electronics City Industries’ Association, a private –public participation body that looks after the civic administration of Electronic City. He assured that the Government would consider all its demands that aimed to improve civic amenities.
Earlier, Patil visited Institute of Biometrics and Applied Biotechnology (IBAB) and had an interaction with research scholars. He also inspected the lab facilities at the institute.
The minister visited International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore (IITB), a deemed university set by IT industries with the support from the Government of Karnataka. The IIITB Director, Prof Sadagopan explained the research activities underway at the institute. I.N.S. Prasad, Principal Secretary IT, BT Department, was present.
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