Mysore next best IT destination

The Karnataka Government is persuading companies intending to set up their shop in Bangalore to look to secondary cities like Mysore.

Major IT firms and MNCs preferring Bangalore as their destination, the infrastructure in the country's silicon valley is getting choked up. Consequently, captains of existing units are expressing resentment over increasing problems.

In view of this situation, the Government is holding talks with major IT companies and MNCs planning their shops in Bangalore to consider the next best city, Mysore. It hopes that in the next couple of months at least one company would prefer Mysore than Bangalore and set up shop here.

Mysore is already being considered the next favoured destination to Bangalore as its acquiring better infrastructure facilities. Its IT exports has touched Rs. 180 crore. Plans are on hand to double the exports this year and in the first quarter the achie-vement is already at Rs. 125 crore. Hence, the IT authorities are confident of achieving Mysore's target.

Making these points, IT Secretary M.K.Shankaralinge Gowda and STPI Director B.V.Naidu said in Mysore today that it will soon have one more facility - a satellite based assessment and training programme for training youth for jobs.

The B-sat programme will be launched in November. Mysore is an ideal place for such a programme as a large number of engineering students pass out of the professional colleges.

The foundation stone for the new building of the Mysore-based Software Paradigms , was laid in the Hebabal Industrial Area and Shankaralinge Gowda was participating as chief guest, while Naidu was presiding over the function.