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The government is planning to come up with 43 new IT cities across the country in the next ten years to continue to be in a position to tap the huge surge in demand for IT enabled services. The move is perhaps motivated owing to the allure of BPO jobs going down and attrition rates increasing, companies are finding it difficult to recruit quality employees in big cities.
It is believed by many that the new IT towns will provide a steady supply of workers besides being specifically geared towards the needs of the IT and the BPO sector. The proposal has in the meanwhile been cleared by the Planning Commission. Currently the major volume of IT enabled services is concentrated in seven cities, including Chennai, Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Noida, Gurgaon and Kolkata.
The government under the new ambitious plan intends to shift 40 percent of the business to the upcoming 43 cities by 2018. According to the new plan, each city will be constructed in an area of the more than 500 hectare. The IT cities will be well planned and laid out and endowed with modern infrastructure and good connectivity to the big cities and airports. The centre has sought the support of state governments in facilitating the creation of these towns. The towns will be prepared by private-public partnership and are expected to generate employment of around 3.5 million people by 2018.
