Two lakh IT jobs in next 2 years, says Minister

WARANGAL: The government decided to provide IT jobs for two lakh people in the next two years, IT & Youth Services Minister R Damodar Reddy has said.

He was speaking to mediapersons here today after participating in several developmental programmes. The IT sector is being given same importance as the agriculture sector. Former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu who had been claiming of developing the IT sector had provided jobs to only 85,000 people during his nine-year rule but the Congress had provided IT jobs to one lakh people during the past three years, he claimed.

The export of various products amounts to 48 per cent and that of IT alone to 52 per cent in the State. IT products of Rs 5,000 crore were exported during the TD’s rule and under the Congress rule there had been exports of Rs 18,500 crore during the last three years, the Minister said.

The Minister said that the IT sector would be developed in all other district apart from Hyderabad under the two and three-tier systems. In the two-tier system, IT parks will be established in Warangal and five other districts and under the three-tier system, parks will be developed in Nizamabad, Mahaboobnagar, Nalgonda districts and other towns.

Arrangements are on to provide infrastructure int he IT park in Warangal, he said. He said that the extension of four-lane works from Hyderabad to Warangal were going on and that the airport would be renovated for augmenting the development of the IT sector.

Apart from Madikonda in the district, other places are also being examined for setting up the IT park, he said. There is a comprehensive action plan to make software technology available in every village, he said.

He urged the party activists to publicise about the various developmental programmes taken up by the Congress Government.

Earlier, he inaugurated the additional classrooms in Urdu medium school built at a cost of Rs 9 lakh. He also laid foundation for four other additional classrooms in the same school.