Odisha CM demands C-DAC Regional Centre for Bhubaneswar

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today urged the Centre to set up a C-DAC Regional Centre here to spur research in high performance computing and data analytics, which would help in weather forecasting and disaster management.
At present, Kolkata has the only Regional Centre of the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in the eastern part of the country.
Odisha, being a coastal state and prone to cyclone, application of high performance computing can particularly help in weather forecasting and disaster management, the chief minister wrote to Union Electronics & Information Technology Minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad.
The application of high performance computing would also help industries and governance, the letter said.

"Odisha has been making steady progress in the field of Electronics and Information and Communication Technology. In its bid to draw more investment in IT and electronics sector, the state government is developing a dedicated Electronics Park near Bhubaneswar, with state-of-the-art infrastructure and research facilities that will house electronic manufacturing units," the letter said.
The state has also got two IT SEZs with all major IT companies operating from there, the letter said.
Several prominent national level educational institutions like IIT, IIM, AIIMS, NISER, IISER, Institute of Physics, Institute of Mathemtics, IMMT and NIT are functioning in Odisha, Patnaik stated in the letter.

While many reputed institutions like BITS have evinced interest to open their branches in the state, one C-DAC Centre of Excellence has already been set up in VSS University of Techology at Burla, the chief minister said.