| State IT minister, Manabendra Mukherjee said, the objective behind the initiative was to apprise academia about industry requirements and simultaneously market the state's human resource (HR) pool to industry . |
| The state IT department has invited central IT minister, Dayanidhi Maran for the event. The workshop would be inaugurated by chief minister, Buddhadev Bhattacharjee. |
| IT and ITES industry leaders who had confirmed their participation were Nasscom chief Kiran Karnik, Neeraj Bharagava of WNS and P K Choudhury of ICRA. |
| Mukherjee said that jobs were available in the IT and ITES sectors in the state but, there was a need to develop need-based courses by the institutions. |
| From the academia side, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) and engineering colleges were expected to participate. |
| At present, 20,000 people were employed in the sector and this would increase over the next two months. |
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