MAIT strengthens its IT usage in East

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

MAIT has announced the opening of its Eastern region office to strengthen its reach and help industry to develop a global competitive Indian IT Industry to promote the usage of IT in Eastern India. The initiative is believed to help MAIT to further strengthen the role of IT in national economic development by bringing the focus in eastern region.

MAIT East office was inaugurated by Chief Guest, Mamata Banerjee, Hon'ble Chief Minister, and Govt. of West Bengal at Milan Mela Exhibition Complex and was received by MAIT President Dr. Alok Bharadwaj. MAIT has its presence in all the parts of the country except eastern region, but this initiative aims to reach out to stakeholders of bigger IT ecosystem in east create a wider awareness & engagement.

Dr. Alok Bharadwaj, President, MAIT said, "Our vision is to take IT to remotest part of the country and expand its use and deployment. India has Rs 70,000 Cr of IT hardware industry and east contributes 16% of that which is sizable. More importantly, state of west Bengal is planning many progressive initiatives that will need more deployment of IT hardware and services. We want to actively participate in the economic progress of east by encouraging integration of more IT, manufacturing, design and innovation etc and to engage with the government. We also want to increase the MAIT membership base in East and plan to increase the PC penetration and proliferation of IT in the region. As East India's biggest IT event 'Infocom' is being held in Kolkata, it was felt most appropriate to open MAIT office in Kolkata to coincide with this."


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