Investors meet at Hubli

In a bid to showcase the available facilities at Hubli Software Technology Park and attract investment in the ITPO and Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) sector, the department of information technology and biotechnology is organising an investors' meet at Hubli on January 28.

Dharwad deputy commissioner M S Srikar said the district administration along with Karnatak Chamber of Commerce and Industry and KLE Society's B V B College of Engineering and Technology were hosting the meet jointly.

He said the main objective was to woo the potential IT investors to north Karnataka in the wake of infrastructure bottlenecks faced by the investors in Bangalore.

The state government is likely to announce an attractive package at the meet to woo investors to Hubli STP managed by Keonics.

At a preparatory meeting held at Hubli last week the stakeholders provided necessary inputs to the district administration to make the meet successful. Hubli is getting a facelift with important arterial roads being relaid. To support small IT players and students the IBM has set up an advanced centre for excellence at BVB College of Engineering and Technology.

Meanwhile, the BIC Society launched by former chief secretary B S Patil too has managed to organise a training programme for the IT aspirants in the region.

The College of Business Administration run by KLE Society in Hubli will conduct a screening test to train the final year degree course students for the BPO industry. This is the first time that such a training programme is organised in north Karnatak. Till now the aspirants were required to go to Pune, Mumbai and Bangalore for such training.