IT employs 11,806 people

Information technology (IT) sector has employed 11,086 people in Odisha with Infosys Technologies, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Tatwa Technologies and Mahindra Satyam being the top employers.

In a written reply to the state assembly, IT minister Raghunath Mohanty said Infosys leads the recruiters’ list with a headcount of 4,200 followed by TCS (1,800), Tatwa Technologies (600) and Mahindra Satyam (560).

Meanwhile, the state government is committed to development of IT sector in the state and has taken a string of initiatives to position Bhubaneswar as a favoured IT hub.

“We have witnessed a remarkable growth in both large, small and medium IT industries in Bhubaneswar in last six to seven years. All the four major IT players- Infosys, TCS (Tata Consultancy Services), Wipro and Mahindra Satyam have established their development centres in Bhubaneswar,” Patnaik said while inaugurating the three-day 3rd international conference on ‘Swarm, Evolutionary and Memetic Computing’ and ‘Fuzzy and Neural Computing’ at the Institute of Technical Education and Research (ITER), a constituent of the city-based Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (SOA) university.