Jodhpur-Pali to be developed as IT investment region

Union Minister P P Choudhary today said that Rajasthan's Jodhpur-Pali area will be developed as an Information Technology Investment Region (ITIR).
"Electronic and hardware manufacturing will be beneficial as it will reduce India's reliance on imports and save the country precious foreign exchange," he said here.
The ITIR should specifically focus on research and development (R&D) and human resource development as it will help create intellectual property and thereby make the nation competent in developing cutting edge technologies, electronics and software products, Choudhary said.
The MoS for Electronics and Information Technology said his ministry had approved a proposal for the project by IIT-Jodhpur.

"The project is in its final stage after rounds of deliberations at different levels for identification of land and other formalities," IIT-Jodhpur deputy registrar Amar Deep Sharma said.
The state government has assured support as the project has immense potential to transform the electronics, IT and ITeS sectors of India and Rajasthan, besides increasing job opportunities, he said.
"The proposed ITIR will have three major activities. These are research and development; software and hardware product development; and manufacturing in the electronics, IT and ITeS sectors," Advisor (industry-academia interface for the IIT) M L Bapna informed.
It was informed that the IIT, DRDO Defence Laboratory and AIIMS in Jodhpur will also establish a joint multi-disciplinary R&D center to anchor indigenous sensor technologies in India.