ADILABAD: Telangana will announce a separate IT policy for Tier II and Tier III cities at the Invest Telangana Global Summit in Hyderabad in December to promote IT services, create jobs for rural youth and equip them with skills required by IT companies.
This was stated here on Wednesday by IT and industries minister Duddilla Sridhar Babu. He said the state was currently following a common IT policy for these cities but would frame a separate policy to expand IT services beyond Hyderabad.
The minister was speaking after inaugurating the Adilabad IT Tower in the presence of MLAs Payal Shankar and Vedma Bojju and MP Godam Nagesh.
He said the government planned to link Basar IIIT with the Adilabad IT Tower to encourage innovation and help students from rural areas develop ideas with wider reach.
The government would also set up incubator centres at IT towers in Tier II and Tier III cities on the lines of T-Hub in Hyderabad to encourage innovative ideas among rural students. The Kakatiya Innovation Hub in Warangal would be inaugurated and similar facilities extended to other Tier II and Tier III cities.
A Task Centre has been sanctioned for the Adilabad IT Tower to train students in skills required by companies and facilitate their recruitment. An additional IT tower would be sanctioned for Adilabad after the office space in the existing facility reached full occupancy.
On the proposed revival of the closed Cement Corporation of India unit in Adilabad, Sridhar Babu said the state government was ready to extend support to the Centre, irrespective of whether the unit was revived through a public-private partnership or under the central government.
The Central government has to relax certain norms with central policy regarding limestone auction, he said and added that the local BJP MLA and MP must resolve the technical problems in it to establish the new cement company at Adilabad with new technology.
He said the government was extending support to the proposed industrial park in Adilabad to generate employment for local youth. It was also encouraging industries in Tier II and Tier III cities to reduce migration to other cities.
Adilabad MLA Payal Shankar and Vedma Bojju urged the minister to sanction a university and an engineering college for tribal areas. MP Godam Nagesh said the central government would extend support to the state government for the proposed airport and industrial park.
K. Shashankar, managing director of TGIIC, IT joint secretary Anudeep and others were present.
Former MP Soyam Bapurao, DCC president Naresh Jadhav and former Union minister S Venugopala Chary also attended the event.
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