Also an international telecom major is setting up international gateways in four cities of the state. He claimed that over 150 software companies were now registered with the Software Technology parks of India, Mohali in Punjab which is emerging fast as the IT town of India. The town has some problems though thanks to Chandigarh, the infrastructure is excellent. At a meeting convened to listen to the problems faced by IT companies in Mohali, most entrepreneurs and professionals were of the view that power cuts was the major problem, then the town did not have clubs and other social infrastructure.

The principal secretary to chief minister and secretary industries, RI Singh who interacted with industry bigwigs along with other senior functionaries of the government assured to remove the irritants. In Fact Gurnihal Singh Pirzada went a step ahead and assured that Mohali would have quality and uninterrupted power supply few months from hence. Some of the well known names like Infosys, Quark Media House Limited, Tata Interactive Systems, Zensar Technologies, HCL Perot Systems, Compu-Info (USA), Cadmus (USA) and Audocomp (Canada) have already started functioning from Mohali while leading national and international companies have shown interest in the state.

Pirzada informed that Punjab State Electronics Development and Production Corporation Limited is the designated nodal agency working for the promotion and development of electronics, telecommunications and information technology in the state. The idea was to envisage the use of information technology for transition of Punjab from a agriculture-based economy to "tertiary, knowledge based economy where role of government would be to define and enable provisions to create high quality infrastructure".

The stress is on creativity, innovation leading to increased share of both hardware and software in state domestic product, progressively introducing electronic governance across all levels and departments. The industry would be responsible for operating, maintaining and pricing of services provided and revenue generation. The managing director said that as far as technical backbone was concerned, Mohali has dedicated satellite earth station. There were two international ku-band earth stations.

There were five world class universities, industrial training institutes, polytechnics and research and development centres. He claimed that the government has taken series of steps for e-governance and has announced incentives for wooing software companies and the entry to Mohali by bit names indicated that Punjab son would be best bet for information age.