Move to set up BPOs in all districts | Deccan Chronicle

Move to set up BPOs in all districts | Deccan Chronicle: "Move to set up BPOs in all districts
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January 21st, 2010
By Our Correspondent


Tags: BPOs, job opportunities, rural areas

Jan. 20: The government is providing incentives to BPOs to set up shop in rural areas to create job opportunities for the youth in these parts of the state. It hopes that about 100 of them will be established in the districts over the next couple of years.
Each BPO will receive financial aid of Rs 40 lakh from the government, according to IT minister Katta Subramanya Naidu. To begin with around 20 BPOs will be set up during the current fiscal year.
Speaking to reporters in Belgaum on Wednesday, Mr Naidu maintained that the establishment of BPOs in the districts would not only help stop the migration of educated youth from villages to the cities, but also promote the IT sector outside Bengaluru.
While four BPOs would come up in Srirangapatna, Palegam, Gundlupet and Shiggaon, 16 others would be set up in due course in other centres, he added, assuring that by the next financial year all 100 BPOs would be established in rural Karnataka. The minister inaugurated one BPO in Gokak, which has been set up under its new scheme to promote them in the districts.
The government has set aside about Rs 8 crore for the current year to finance the new BPOs, according to the minister who explained that more funds would be provided to BPOs opting for towns with less than 1 lakh population.
He said the state had in all 2085 IT and BT related industries, which did business of Rs 75,000 crore in exports during the current financial year."