WB govt offers 45 acre to Wipro, Infosys

In an attempt to retain Wipro and Infosys in India's eastern state of West Bengal, the state government Thursday offered 45 acre each to the two IT giants for setting up their units.

"We are ready to give 45 acre each to Wipro and Infosys.

They can construct new units at Rajarhat," State Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee told a press conference at the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) headquarters here.

"The two IT firms will be contacted by tomorrow," Bhattacharjee said, 10 days after scrapping of the IT township project at Rajarhat following an alleged land scam.

PKC Asked whether the two companies would accept the offer, the chief minister said, "Definitely. There have been preliminary talks with them." "This is the only alternative for us to bring the two IT majors in our state," he said, adding that the two companies could together create 16,000 job opportunities in two to three years.

On whether the land being offered was leased, the Left leader said, "All land is leased land." Bhattacharjee said the two companies could take possession of the land at Rajarhat which has all the required infrastructure.

The land price, he said, would be determined after discussing it with the IT majors.

On the scrapped IT township project, he said the government had identified plots near the Vedic Village resort at Rajarhat.

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