Bangalore: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is helping himself to a share in the Information Technology investment pie. Speaking at Bangalore's IT fest IT.biz he tried to woo the sector to move to Gujarat.
His grand promise - good infrastructure, as against Bangalore's bad traffic.
“Ahmedabad and Surat have a huge cost advantage of 32 to 38 per cent - as far as cost of operations is concerned. I agreed we're late starters in IT, but we're early starters in holistic e-governance,” he said.
Modi has already snatched away the Nano from Bengal and this time he's looking into Karnataka's kitty.
The IT fest has been held in Karnataka for the past 11 years but this is the first time the Gujarat CM has attended it. Modi made his presence felt by meeting with industry heads, hard-selling his State's new IT parks and IT policies.
While Karnataka's IT sector has so far been competing with Hyderabad and Chennai, this year's IT fest seems to have started off a new race.
“I'll also invite Gujaratis to come to Karnataka and participate and grow yourself,” said Karnataka IT Katta Subramanya Naidu.
Agreed Urban Development Minister, Suresh Kumar, “He's set a new challenge before us and Karnataka is ready to face that challenge”.
Karnataka has put off its global investors' meet indefinitely. Seizing the opportunity, Gujarat has gone ahead and called its very own global investors' meet in mid-January.
The Andhra government has been glorifying the path of Moditva for some time now. But it looks like this affinity between the saffron partners could backfire on the IT capital if they don't take care.
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