New IT & ITES policy on the anvil - Chief Minister
Posted on: 21/Dec/2011 11:10:08 PM
Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Wednesday said that government was planning to bring out a new Information Technology and IT-enabled services policy to catapult the State to numero uno position.
Addressing a gathering during the 11th edition of CONNECT, organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) here on Wednesday, the CM, who was also the first to give a thrust to the State’s IT policy by inaugurating the first edition of Connect 2011
The Chief Minister said State’s software exports, the focus was primarily on high-end value addition spectrum. “About 49 per cent of the State’s IT exports constitute system and application software, while business process outsourcing constitutes only 12 per cent, a clear reflection of the climb-up in the value chain achieved by the IT industry,” she added.
She said TN had a rich capital of human resource, with the State recording a annual turnout of 1.92 lakh engineering graduates and a equal number of trained polytechnic students. “Tamil Nadu is the most ‘technically powerful knowledge state’ in the country with Anna University being the largest technical university comprising 500 engineering colleges and producing about 25 per cent of the nation’s engineers and nearly 10 per cent of the world’s engineering graduates,” she added.
