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Two of India’s top three software firms, Infosys Technologies and Wipro Technologies will have an unexpected visitor on June 15.
For the first time the chief minister of the south Indian state of
Tamil Nadu, will visit Bangalore in the state of Karnataka state. The
Minister wants to see for himself how this city has moved from a
“sleepy pensioners” town to being the Silicon Capital of India and
accounting for 30% of India’s total software exports of $24 billion in
2005-06.
The Union Minister of IT and Communications, Dayanidhi Maran, will be
accompanying the chief minister of Tamil Nadu, M. Karunanidhi. The
39-year old IT minister also happens to be the great-nephew of the
80-year-old chief minister.
This is a significant event because both the states, considered to be
arch rivals when it came to attracting investments from IT
multinationals have not seen either of their chief ministers visiting
their counterpart in the other state.
The three cities of south India – Bangalore (Karnataka state), Chennai
(Tamil Nadu state) and Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh state) are always in a
white-knuckled, nail-biting race to attract investment from large IT
multinationals as well smaller startups with niche technologies.
Recently, Bangalore lost out to both Chennai and Hyderabad for large manufacturing projects.
In January this year, Nokia as well as Motorola (which announced its
plan just recently) have set up manufacturing plants in Chennai. Nokia
had the plant up and running in just six months and is now
manufacturing over a million phones a month.
The $3 billion semiconductor fabrication plant, the first of its kind
to be set up in India by a consortium of non resident Indians and the
Union government participation, was yet another closely fought race
where the location finally went in favor of Hyderabad.
The success of high technology firms in Bangalore has led to the growth
of India's IT industry, making it the Silicon Valley of India. But,
trying to cope with such an unprecedented growth, Bangalore continues
to struggle with major infrastructure problems. Nevertheless it still
remains an attractive destination for high-end R&D projects, if not
manufacturing, with two new companies setting up operations each week.
Hyderabad city is also known for its IT and IT Enabled Services (call
centers), pharmaceuticals and entertainment industries while Chennai
is the automobile capital of India, with around 40% of the automobile
industry having a base there. After being called as the Detroit of
South Asia, it is fast emerging as the hardware manufacturing hub of
India.
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Two of India’s top three software firms, Infosys Technologies and Wipro Technologies will have an unexpected visitor on June 15.
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