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Information Technology Sector
 Availability of educated low-cost human
resource
A
new IT Policy is in the pipeline to replace the earlier policy
of 2000
State
Govt. is taking initiative to promote IT education in schools,
colleges
and e-Governance
Tripura
is considered the second best IT destination in the North East
after
Guwahati; Potential for setting up IT-enabled services
Special
Incentives for IT industries in the new Tripura Incentive
Scheme 2007.
IT sector (including IT-enabled services) has been identified as one of the major potential growth sectors of the State. The literacy rate of the State is over 80% now, which is higher than the national average. IT industry being a knowledge-based industry, educated human resource is the most promising resource of the State. It also has good network of schools and colleges spread across the State, including 1 (one) National Institute of Technology (NIT), 1 (one) Engineering College, 2(two) Polytechnic Colleges and 8 (eight) ITls. The availability of IT trained manpower in the State has significantly improved over the years. In fact, the annual intake capacity of the IT/ Computer courses being run by Universities, Colleges and Central/ State Govt. Departments/ Organisation in Tripura alone works out to about 1,500 persons, of which the Graduate/ Post-graduate Engineering courses (BE, B.Tech, MCA, M.Tech.) in IT/ Computer Science account for annual intake capacity of about 300 candidates. In addition, there are a large number of Private Institutions running IT/ computer courses with combined annual intake capacity of about 2,000 persons.
Tripura has been considered the second best IT destination in the North East, after Assam, in an independent study conducted by NEDFi. The State Government has also accorded special status to this industry and special incentives have been announced for the IT industry in the new Incentive Package. A Software Technology Park (STP) is being set up at Agartala in order to provide necessary infrastructure facilities for setting up of IT industries in the State.
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