ESC to set up state committees for augmenting IT exports

NEW DELHI: The Electronic and Computer Software Export Promotion Council (ESC) is launching state committee at 11 identified potential IT clusters to provide an effective forum for electronics and ICT related entrepreneurs.

The committee will be set up to help the ICT entrepreneurs to take up their problems with the state and the central governments and to articulate their views on infrastructure development and other promotional initiatives for exports from the country. The 11 clusters identified by the ESC include Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Kerela, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Gujarat.

Chairman of ESC, Nalin Kholi, said that the committees would enable them to showcase their strengths in a combined manner to the overseas buyers and heads of states, who visit the campuses of the large companies on a regular basis. The visiting dignitaries would be able to carry back their impression about the capacity of the Indian IT SMEs, which can fructify into increased business turnover for them.

“We are paying a lot of importance to these committees since the cluster specific IT planning and road map for making these high tech centers world class require constant dialogue and consultations with the industry and government. ESC is also acting as a driving force to make the country a hardware hub of its contributions made to bring India in the world software map,” Kohli added. Kohli said that the qualitative changes have to take place in the policy framework governing hardware production, exports, foreign direct investment and rationalization of labour.