New IT & ITES policy on the anvil - Chief Minister
Posted on: 21/Dec/2011 11:10:08 PM - No. of views : (2568)
Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Wednesday said that government was planning to bring out a new Information Technology and IT-enabled services policy to catapult the State to numero uno position.
Addressing a gathering during the 11th edition of CONNECT, organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) here on Wednesday, the CM, who was also the first to give a thrust to the State�s IT policy by inaugurating the first edition of Connect 2011
The Chief Minister said State�s software exports, the focus was primarily on high-end value addition spectrum. �About 49 per cent of the State�s IT exports constitute system and application software, while business process outsourcing constitutes only 12 per cent, a clear reflection of the climb-up in the value chain achieved by the IT industry,� she added.
She said TN had a rich capital of human resource, with the State recording a annual turnout of 1.92 lakh engineering graduates and a equal number of trained polytechnic students. �Tamil Nadu is the most �technically powerful knowledge state� in the country with Anna University being the largest technical university comprising 500 engineering colleges and producing about 25 per cent of the nation�s engineers and nearly 10 per cent of the world�s engineering graduates,� she added.
