GNFC-Infocity to start operations by October

The connectivity-equipped GNFC-Infocity, located on the Sarkhej-Gandhinagar highway, would begin its operations by early October, the chief minister, Keshubhai Patel said.

Reviewing the progress of the two mega projects of the state government viz Infocity and Science City at a high level meeting, Mr Patel said that entrepreneurs willing to set up their units in the proposed Infocity, could now get connectivity facility. The meeting was attended among others by Bimal Shah, minister of state for information technology, L N S Mukundan, chief secretary, N V Vasani, advisor to the chief minister and K C Kapoor, additional chief secretary, information technology department.

The chief minister informed the meeting that the pre-feasibility report being prepared by renowned information technology consultants for the mega infocity, would be submitted to the government soon. Gujarat Informatics Ltd set up for the purpose has already short-listed three developers for setting up an Infotower. The progress made at various stages, was also discussed at the meeting.

He said that GNFC-Infocity has already received STPI connectivity connection from Gandhinagar. Now a separate satellite earth station will be established to take care of the day-to-day needs, he said.

Entrepreneurs have also shown their keen interest in setting up units for offering assembling services besides exporting softwares.

The meeting also decided to set up the state’s own Gujarat Institute of Information Technology (GIIT) to impart computer training to the new generation and if necessary collaborations from the IBM, Oracle and Microsoft would also be sought.

With regard to the proposed Science City, he said that 200 acres of land had already been acquired behind the Gujarat High Court, Sola Road’ and has constituted a Gujarat Council of Science City for implementing the project. The Centre for Environment Planning and Architectural Design has already undertaken the work.

Compiled from local news media