The Himachal Pradesh cabinet has cleared setting up of the state?s first information technology park, green IT hub. The state government plans to set up five IT parks — at Waknaghat and Nalagarh in Solan district, Palampur and Nurpur in Kangra district and Dalhousie in Chamba district. The cabinet note said, ?The Himachal Pradesh cabinet has decided to float tenders to invite open bids from private players to design, develop, build an information technology park as Green IT Hub of world-class standards.?
The proposed Green IT Hub would be set up over 65 acres of government land at Waknaghat with an estimated investment of Rs 460 crore. The cabinet note claimed that the proposed IT hub would provide jobs to about 25,000 educated, unemployed youth of the state. It said financial capability and experience would be the criteria for determining the eligibility of the bidder, while the state government shall act as facilitator and provide external infrastructural facilities only.
Officials at the Himachal chief minister?s office told FE that at least 12 companies have shown interest in preparing a plan and determine the costs for setting up the state?s first IT hub. These include DLF Universal, Parsvanath Developers, SKIL Infrastructure, RVRCL Infrastructure, Uppal Housing, Maheshwari Mega Ventures and Omaxe Infrastructure City Development, among others
The proposed IT hubs would be in addition to a nano biosystem technology park to be set up at Aduwal near Nalagarh in Solan district.
The park would take up multi-purpose projects.