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Dear
Nitishji,
I am sure you must be going ahead with such a
programme. However, I feel like reminding you
that in today’s condition, IT and ITeS including
the BPO, LPO, And MPO, are the businesses that
can come up anywhere. It doesn’t require heavy
investment too. If smaller places such as
Jaipur, and Mysore can go for this in big way
why can’t Bihar have these in Patna,
Muzaffarpur, and Bhagalpur that are having
engineering colleges for many years.
Bihar has got a large number of expertise in
legal and medical areas. BPOs covering these
areas can certainly be set up. But firstly it
requires that you and your team must be
convinced about this. Please depute someone even
an outsider to help you in developing BPO in
Bihar. It is a full time job with a long-term
strategy and plan in place. You may appoint a
minister for the job. If you look into the
history of West Bengal, it was not having this
sector till Jyoti Babu was in charge. Now Bengal
is going in full steam.
As the first thing, please call the directors of
the engineering colleges and ask them to have
some incubators. Please provide the necessary
fund to them. Do also ask them to increase the
capacity by three times or more than today’s
figure. They can run shifts. They can use
retired persons from industry or defense even
for teaching, if necessary. Let them be
consultants and earn experience and money too.
Bihar is providing huge lot of manpower to the
IT sector. I am sure that some of them if given
proper encouragement can be entrepreneurs too.
If Bihar can start providing the trained
manpower in plenty, the investors in the sector
will start coming on their own. But initially,
please put your personal networking and those of
your friends and even of your political foes who
get the entrepreneurs for Bihar.
You can get reputed educational institutes or
business houses set up international standard in
major towns of Bihar. What do we require today
as qualification for entry-level jobs in BPOs -
it is just fluent English and a little knowledge
of computer? I am sure if you help many Biharis
will get employed in state itself and their
earnings will automatically bring prosperity to
many families.
I am sure, I have not said anything unwarranted?
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We read now-and-then that the Bihar
government, under leadership of the
Chief Minister, has taken decisions
to set up premier educational
institutions in Bihar. That's the
first step and we all appreciated
this. But what after that? The
development cycle must complete and
evolve thereafter. This will in fact
also stop outflow of Bihar's money.
We know that the Bihar government
has now been trying to attract
different industries (sugar, food
processing, hospitality, health,
etc.) but it must acknowledge the
fact that attracting the IT industry
to Bihar is equally important. This
will bring the new dynamism and will
help change the perception of the
world towards Bihar. It must be
understood that it's a lot easier to
attract and in fact start an IT
based industry in Bihar. The main
apparent reasons behind this are:-
Relatively less investment required
for the startup.
Comparatively cheaper infrastructure
(land, water, etc.) is available in
Bihar.
Big pool of educated talent
available in Bihar. This is the same
talent who go out and do wonders not
only in India but across the globe
and bring glory to the motherland.
Lower labor cost.
IT industry can be setup in any
place (not geographic dependent but
needs the connectivity to the
world).
Large number of existing
professionals (many of them having
Bihari origin also) available in IT
industry across the globe to support
this cause.
It's just not me who is aware of
these facts but the perspective
investors also must be equally keen
on it. But yes, every investor would
like to assure the protection of
their interests. The government must
get the conducive system in place
for all these. We know that TCS is
assisting Bihar in e-governance. So
why the Bihar government not trying
to convince them to take the
initiative of setting up a flagship
IT industry in Bihar? Or why now
pursuing Mahindra who also seems to
be pretty interested.
Today people from Bihar are helping
out everyone generating wealth. Now
the time has come when they shall
get opportunity to do the same in
Bihar also. We collectively have to
put our best foot forward towards
development of Bihar. Bihar has
already lost a lot of time. It's
time to act fast and make up for the
lost opportunities. We need to grow
from all dimensions. We are eager to
make Bihar and India proud. - V.
Joey - Oct. 29, 2006
Bihar has a large number of manpower
in IT sector. Bihar Government
should follow this suggestion. -
Mahesh Singh Yadav, Graphics
Designer, New Delhi - Oct. 31, 2006
Bihar has enough potential to become
a model for the other Indian states
(instead of following their models).
Keeping the long-term goals for the
state in mind, there are a multitude
of areas of research and development
where we can be the leaders. In his
other articles, the author has
discussed the potential areas of
growth more “suited” for Bihar (and
India). IT Services business (as
service providers) is useful only to
bring short-term investment. Not
that we ignore it completely, but it
should not be high in priority. It
depends on whether we are thinking
of the next election or the next
generation. I may be wrong, but this
is my view. - Kumod Jha - Nov. 1,
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