After attracting Rs6,000 crore investment and creating state of the art infrastructure at its New Raipur smart capital city, the Chhattisgarh state government has invited select corporate houses and IT sector giants to visit this smart city in the next one month for attracting Rs12,000 crore investment in near future.
After attracting Rs6,000 crore investment and creating state of the art infrastructure at its New Raipur smart capital city, the Chhattisgarh state government has invited select corporate houses and IT sector giants to visit this smart city in the next one month for attracting Rs12,000 crore investment in near future.
Chhattisgarh chief minister Dr Raman Singh held meetings with leading corporate house representatives and IT sector giants in his 2-day Mumbai visit. He shared the same with select media persons over an informal interaction on Wednesday.
Dr Singh said that the state would have a total of five smart cities in addition to New Raipur, the new capital city. He informed that in all a total of 237 square kilometre area, which includes 82 square kilometres earmarked for the IT sector, would be available for attracting investment. It would include infrastructure along with new start ups and two business incubation centres to be launched by Nasscom and Microsoft. Singh informed that the sate government would be coming up with new policy for intra-state air taxi service so that Ambikapur, Jaspur and Raipur-Jagdalpur would be joined by air service.
Dr Singh told that in addition to institution for public health of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), National Law University have come to Raipur, Delhi Public School also has come to Raipur in addition to 50 engineering colleges opened by the government. He informed that the state government had undertaken skill development programme on a massive scale and 1.50 lakh youth have upgraded their skill sets through this.
The leading IT companies like Infosys, Wipro are keen to invest in the state along with healthcare leaders. He said that the state would be offering electricty duty and other concessions to the investors in addition to uninterrupted 24X7 power supply. He informed that the per capita power consumption in Chhattisgarh is 1540 units where as National average per capita consumption is 650 units. He informed that 98 per cent people have been covered under Pradhanmantri Jan-Dhan Yojana and the state Government would be providing for 20 welfare schemes through these accounts.
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