Union Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday urged the State Government to be proactive in the field of information technology and IT enabled services which have greater potential to generate employment, reported The New Indian Express.
Inaugurating the cloud-enabled National Data Centre (NDC), the fourth of its kind in the country, at the National Informatics Centre (NIC) campus in the city, Prasad said the Centre will assist the State in all possible way for establishment of more industries in the IT and electronics sectors.
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Prasad said, has already sanctioned a greenfield electronic manufacturing cluster (EMC) project worth 202.57 crore for Odisha in September last year and the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DEIT) has released an amount of 18.6 crore out of its share of 96.96 crore.
The English Daily reported that Prasad said data centres are enabling Government to render e-Governance services to the citizens effectively. The establishment of National Dada Centre in Bhubaneswar will further enhance the range of services offered by NIC, which has been promoting digital opportunities for sustainable development at grassroots level. The data centre in Bhubaneswar is the fourth such centre of NIC after Delhi, Hyderabad and Pune.
Thanking Prasad for setting up the fourth NDC in Bhubaneswar, Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Darmendra Pradhan urged the former to approve more IT and electronics projects for the State.
