From correspondents in Uttar Pradesh, India, 02:32 PM IST
The software industry's apex lobby group is looking at Lucknow as a future information technology (IT) hub, an industry official said Thursday.
The software lobby - the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) - and the Lucknow-based Association of Knowledge Workers (AKW) will jointly organise a national conference here Saturday to discuss how the Uttar Pradesh capital could be developed into an IT hub.
'The conference will focus on strategic planning for making Lucknow the next IT destination in the state after Noida,' Jayant Krishna, chairman of the organising committee, told IANS.
Krishna, who is also the principal consultant with Tata Consultancy Services in Lucknow, said software hotspots in the country such as Hyderabad, Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata are witnessing saturation.
'As a result, companies are looking at second-tier cities that can be developed as the next IT destinations,' he added.
According to him, Lucknow fitted the bill, and is best suited for the business processing outsourcing industry among the second-tier cities, given its proximity to Delhi.
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The move for making Lucknow an IT hub makes lot of sense. Qualified engineers from IITs, management graduates from IIMs. in UP, Bihar and as far from Delhi and Kolkata, not to mention the same so many other institutions, many of them with considerable IT expece. or otherwise employable on entry basis, are in abundant supply. Right now due to inadequate employment avenues right nearer home,they have to seek the same in the South and after gaining some experience, consider emigration to US/ West.
It is really good news that NASSCOM is looking at Lucknow for developing as the next hub in UP for IT now that NOIDA has been given the necessary push.Delhi-NOIDA infrastructure for office and employees is highly strained. This in respect of Lucknow can be far less of a problem if the site for office and employee residential-social infrastructure can be chosen imaginatively with a projection of trends by 2030 (abt.25 year timeframe) in view.
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