WB govt didn't reject Wipro, Infy proposals: CPI(M)

The government of India's eastern state of West Bengal Wednesday said it has not rejected proposals of IT majors Wipro and Infosys for setting up units near the state capital.

The government had only scrapped the IT park which was to come up near the controversial Vedic Village resort, Left Front (LF) chairman Biman Bose told reporters after a LF meeting here.

West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee told the meeting that the proposals of Wipro and Infosys had not been rejected, Bose said.

In April 2008, the state government had inked two MoUs-- one each with Infosys and Wipro--for setting up IT facilities, for which they had sought 90 acre each. While for Infosys it would had been the first project, Wipro was planning a second one. A company had been floated for setting up an IT park near Vedic Village which now stood scrapped.

On results of Siliguri civic polls where the Trinamool Congress party-Congress party combine defeated Left Front to form the civic board, Bose said the Darjeeling Left Front has been asked to submit a report.

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