After waiting for more than five months Infosys is finally sending its team to Kolkata for conducting an evaluation study that will decide on setting up a development centre here.
Headed by the chief financial officer Mr Mohandas Pai the team will make a two-day stay in the city on 6 and 7 March. The chairman and chief mentor of Infosys Technologies, Mr NR Narayana Murthy, had met chief minister Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, earlier on 27 September and expressed his desire to come to Kolkata in a “big way”. He had said that Infosys is weighing options to set up software operations in the city. However a feasibility-cum-evaluation study was to be made first. A series of meetings with the state IT department and Infosys had ensued after this but nothing could be heard of the issue. It was being doubted whether the company had backtracked from its stand.
Finally the team has decided to pay the much awaited visit. Whether any proposal for land will be made or not is yet not known. But an evaluation would be made based upon the pros and cons behind setting up of a software development centre here. Bhubaneshwar is the last software development centre set up by Infosys. Nonetheless, the IT department will take the teams to the IT hubs here. The department will project Bantala leather complex as the first option. Whether its the land cost that is the main reason behind this is not known. While per acre land cost is Rs 86 lakh for Bantala it is Rs 2.16 crore in Rajarhat.
Mr Pai will meet the chief minister and the state IT minister later. Mr GD Gautama, state IT secretary said: “Infosys will add another number to the group of major players like Wipro, Satyam, ITC infotech, Tata Consultancy Services, Congnizant Technology Solutions and HSBC”. However it is too early to draw any conclusion. The company will consider all the options before finalising the deal, Mr Gautama said. After drawing the report the team will discuss it with the bigwigs of the company and only then will the information be conveyed to the state. Things will be clear only at the end of the second day, Mr Gautama added.
Headed by the chief financial officer Mr Mohandas Pai the team will make a two-day stay in the city on 6 and 7 March. The chairman and chief mentor of Infosys Technologies, Mr NR Narayana Murthy, had met chief minister Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, earlier on 27 September and expressed his desire to come to Kolkata in a “big way”. He had said that Infosys is weighing options to set up software operations in the city. However a feasibility-cum-evaluation study was to be made first. A series of meetings with the state IT department and Infosys had ensued after this but nothing could be heard of the issue. It was being doubted whether the company had backtracked from its stand.
Finally the team has decided to pay the much awaited visit. Whether any proposal for land will be made or not is yet not known. But an evaluation would be made based upon the pros and cons behind setting up of a software development centre here. Bhubaneshwar is the last software development centre set up by Infosys. Nonetheless, the IT department will take the teams to the IT hubs here. The department will project Bantala leather complex as the first option. Whether its the land cost that is the main reason behind this is not known. While per acre land cost is Rs 86 lakh for Bantala it is Rs 2.16 crore in Rajarhat.
Mr Pai will meet the chief minister and the state IT minister later. Mr GD Gautama, state IT secretary said: “Infosys will add another number to the group of major players like Wipro, Satyam, ITC infotech, Tata Consultancy Services, Congnizant Technology Solutions and HSBC”. However it is too early to draw any conclusion. The company will consider all the options before finalising the deal, Mr Gautama said. After drawing the report the team will discuss it with the bigwigs of the company and only then will the information be conveyed to the state. Things will be clear only at the end of the second day, Mr Gautama added.
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