45 Acres Offered by the West Bengal Govt to Infosys, Wipro

On Thursday, the Government of West Bengal called up the two major IT Giants, Infosys and Wipro to come up with two centers at the Rajarhat along the north eastern part of Kolkata. Along with his call, he also assured to give away 45 acres to each one of them.

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, the CM of West Bengal said, "I'm proposing today (Thursday), through the media, that we are ready to give 45 acres of land each to Wipro and Infosys. If they agree to the proposal, they can come and immediately take possession of the land and start new centers." He conveyed this at the press conference which was held at state headquarters of CPI-M.

Bhattacharjee also conveyed that he will be giving off the land on lease to both the companies.

"These companies can create 16,000 jobs in two years. I already had a talk with my cabinet colleagues, IT Minister Debesh Das, Housing Development Minister Gautam Deb and others about the proposal. We will start talking to the companies. The price of the land will be negotiated with them,"

About the venue, he conveyed that the place had enough market complexes, road facilities as well as housing areas to enlighten up the entire concept.

"Now the state government will talk to these companies with the proposal. We can immediately hand over the proposed land to them (Wipro and Infosys).

"A few months back we'd identified land near Vedic Village area to set up an IT township there. But we didn't have any idea that they were acquiring land with muscle power and also with the help of some anti-social elements. Some unfortunate things also happened there... I was little upset with that," he said.