{"id":4448,"date":"2011-01-02T21:05:51","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T01:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=4448"},"modified":"2011-01-02T21:11:58","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T01:11:58","slug":"update-on-the-bhubaneswar-itir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/4448","title":{"rendered":"Update on the Bhubaneswar ITIR"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following is an excerpt from a report in Business Standard<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The implementation of the proposed Information Technology (IT) investment region in Orissa will involve a cost of Rs 17,883 crore.<\/p>\n

"The IT investment region would generate jobs for 0.23 million people and accommodate a population of around 0.54 million. More than 75 per cent of the investment will be made on the Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode”, an official source told Business Standard.<\/p>\n

The state government has already submitted the final report on the proposed IT investment region prepared by IL&FS-Infrastructure Development Corporation (IL&FS-IDC) to the Government of India …<\/p>\n

The IT investment region (ITIR) in Orissa is to be developed on an area of 40 sq km (around 10,000 acres) between Bhubaneswar and Khurda. The ITIR project is expected to be fully operational by 2020.<\/p>\n

In the final project report on the ITIR, IL&FS-IDC had included among other things an airport, a global IT training centre, a bio-tech park and a science city spread over 350 acres. …<\/p>\n

According to the project plan of IL&FS-IDC, 40 per cent of the area of the ITIR would be earmarked for the processing units of information technology (IT) and ITes sectors (IT enabled services) as well as electronics and hardware manufacturing units.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Following are links to earlier postings on this.<\/p>\n