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POWER
West Bengal’s Electrical Power Generation,
Transmission and Distribution is the best in
India and the State has excess energy
availability. The availability and quality of
power in its IT enclaves are among the best in
the country.
In fact, in their recent surveys both NASSCOM
and GARTNER have ranked Kolkata as the best
place in the country on the dimension of power
infrastructure.
INDUSTRIAL INFRASTRUCTURE
An important requirement for this sector is
the ready availability of business space with
state-of-the-art support infrastructure.
WEBEL (West Bengal Electronics Industry
Development Corporation Limited), a Government
of West Bengal undertaking, is the nodal agency
for development of the electronics industry, and
is the facilitator for development of
Information Technology in the state. WEBEL has
been continuously trying to keep ready space
available for prospective entrepreneurs. Towards
this end, they have set up the Salt Lake
Electronic Complex (Saltlec), India’s
first fully integrated electronics complex in
the country, in Salt Lake. This 150-acre
pollution free hi-tech industrial zone has been
designed to provide companies with world-class
start-up services and facilities. The area, only
8 km from the international airport, has a large
hinterland of residential Salt Lake which offers
modern housing at very competitive rates. 160
companies employing over 12,500 people,
world-class institutions, training and research
centres and major enterprises from India and
overseas are located here.
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presence of
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Sema,
The Chatterjee Group (TCG),
Computer Associates, TCS,
Cognizant and the like have put
the city on the global IT map.
The largest operations of TCG
Software Services are in
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- The ready to use space which have been
created include - 2,50,000-sq. ft. Standard
Design Factory provided under Software
Technology Park (STP) scheme.
- The newly opened STP II with
60,000-sq. ft. built up area allotted to
software companies.
- INFINITY – the 2,60,000 sq. ft.
high productivity, fully intelligent
workplace is attracting IT majors in a big
way.
- First phase of Bengal Intelligent Park
covering a total area of about 50,000-sq.
ft. - with fully integrated facilities of
international standards for IT and software
majors - is ready and fully occupied. Phase
II and III are proposed to be built shortly.
- A Third STP is coming up shortly.
- Two new IT Habitats coming up at Kalyani
and Durgapur.
WEBEL also offers plots of land on easy
terms in the SALTEC area.
More new infrastructure for IT &
ITeS units, very close to Salt Lake:
- New Kolkata Township of Rajarhat
- 'Sunrise City' at Nonadanga
The renowned DLF Group will develop an IT
Park on the 10 acres of land at Rajarhat, New
Town. The Park will have atleast 3.00 lacs sq.ft.
area built in the first phase followed by second
phase adding up to a total of 1 million sq.ft..
The state government is also actively
supporting setting up of an optic fibre cable
based statewide communication network using West
Bengal State Electricity Board’s (WBSEB)
extensive transmission and distribution network.
This network is expected to be extensively used
by both private and public sector including the
state government for spread of IT. Rapid
implementation of statewide e-governance has
connected the state capital with all the
district headquarters.
Thus, as evident from above, the state has
all the ingredients for the IT industry to
develop and grow successfully, including trained
manpower, well developed infrastructural
facilities and a supportive government, which
has already declared an user-friendly,
comprehensive package of fiscal incentives for
the IT industry.
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