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Tripura CM avoids STP inauguration : CPI-M’s 24 yrs failure in Industry, IT sector produced 7 lakhs unemployment, Tripura stands nowhere in national 'Internet readiness index' : Manik fails to capitalize India’s 3rd Internet gateway to Agartala
TIWN April 26, 2017
Tripura CM avoids STP inauguration : CPI-M’s 24 yrs failure in Industry, IT sector produced 7 lakhs unemployment, Tripura stands nowhere in national 'Internet readiness index' : Manik fails to capitalize India’s 3rd Internet gateway to Agartala
PHOTO : Central IT Minister inaugurates STPI at Agartala. TIWN Pic April 26

AGARTALA / NEW DELHI, April 26 (TIWN): Tripura Chief Minister’s suspicious absence from most important STPI (Software Technology Park India) Agartala centre inauguration on Tuesday evening again reiterates the fact that Manik Sarkar never cared to invite a single IT company in Tripura. Manik Sarkar spent lakhs of rupees in flight travel to Hyderabad or Chennai to console unknown characters like Rohit Vemula’s death to hog national limelight but failed to knock doors of Industrialists in Bangalore, Bombay, Hyderabad to generate employment for Tripura’s 7 lakhs unemployed youths. In STPI inauguration, even Central IT Minister Prem Prakash Chaudhury expressed concerns about the CPI-M Govt’s Industry vision and proper utilization of Central funds in Tripura and reminded Manik’s IT illiterate Industry Minister Tapan Chakraborty to learn from other States like Nagaland. Nagaland, Assam, Mizoram are successful in generating IT enabled Industry employments but Tripura remained backward under CPI-M rule.

Whats the point of constructing empty buildings like STPI, IT Bhawan if there are no IT majors, no initiatives by State Govt to invite IT companies in Tripura ???

Unfortunately for Tripura’s 7 Lakhs unemployed youths, IT educated graduates, Tripura Govt headed by IT illiterate Chief Minister failed to capitalize the golden opportunity of making Agartala as destination of IT Industry in Northeast.

Tripura’s name listed nowhere in the latest report published by Internet and Mobile Association of India.

The report, Index of Internet Readiness of Indian States’, was published by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and Indicus Analytics. Internet readiness index is a composite index on components like e-infrastructure index, e-participation index, IT-services and e-governance index.

Even though Modi Govt chosen Agartala as the location for prestigious 3rd Internet gateway of India but lameduck CPI-M Govt failed to make any inroads to build infrastructure and participation of IT Industry in Tripura. Failure of Manik Govt in building necessary infrastructures for IT Industry in Tripura will cause massive setbacks in boosting economy, also missing a golden opportunity to generate large scale employments to IT educated young generation.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladesh Premier Sheikh Hasina was instrumental in shaping the important agreement which was signed in Dhaka on June 6 between the BSCCL and BSNL for leasing of international bandwidth for internet at Akhaura.

Even though 3rd Internet gateway is operational since a year but State’s lameduck Industry Ministry led by Tapan Chakraborty, Industry Secretary Nagaraju remained clueless on how State Govt should proceed about rapid development of IT Industry in Tripura.

Union Communications and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on July 11, 2014 laid the foundation stone in Agartala  for the third international internet gateway (IIG) through Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh.

“Therefore, much more needs to be done in the form of investment and infrastructure development in the Northeast region,” the IAMAI report stated.

As per the report, among the smaller states, Delhi has emerged as the topmost state in terms of Internet readiness index, followed by Puducherry and Goa. 

Maharashtra has emerged as the top ranking state in terms of overall Internet readiness index, followed by Karnataka, Gujarat, Telengana and Tamil Nadu, according to a report unveiled in New Delhi.

Among the Union Territories, Chandigarh is ranked top in terms of Internet readiness index.

The purpose of the report was to help the business and governments to leverage the strength, policy measures can also be taken where improvements are required.

“Given the rapid advancement in e-services and e-commerce, it is essential to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the states,” the report said.

“Internet readiness in this study is not limited to how industry friendly each state is for investment in the IT sector, but aims to give a more holistic picture of the digital ecosphere that presently exists in the states. 

"This stems from the understanding that only an organic linkage between the digital world and the real world can lead to the development and wellbeing that digitalization promises to deliver,” the report stated.

Indian government has spent Rs.20 crore to create the infrastructure, including laying of OFC to avail the 10 gigabit bandwidth from Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Limited (BSCCL).

Tripura’s biggest drawback as it stands today is that,  from Chief Minister Manik Sarkar  to IT Minister Tapan Chakraborty to Industry Secretary Nagaraju– none have any visions on IT, never visited even once in past decades to IT Summits or  headquarters at Bangalore, Hyderabad, Bombay based IT companies or interested to build or invite them to invest  in Tripura.

So, Central Govt may spend another  Rs 100 crores to gear up State’s IT sector, Construction of ‘IT Bhawan, STPI’ but communist Manik Sarkar & Company hell bent to derail Union Govt’s bold initiatives to keep Tripura’s economy in dark era.

 

 

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