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IT department signs MoU with NASSCOM to promote Bihar IT Policy 2024 to investors
On 7 October 2024 Bihar's Department of Information Technology signed an MoU with NASSCOM under the Bihar IT Policy 2024. NASSCOM is to help identify large IT investors, organise roadshows in Bengaluru, Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Pune, and let the state take part in its national programmes. At the signing the IT minister said Airtel and CtrlS had registered for about Rs 450 crore of IT infrastructure investment.
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- Agreement approved
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Good to know: An MoU was signed. No later output attributed to it was found.
What's confirmed
4 facts backed by sources
- The Department of Information Technology signed an MoU with NASSCOM on Monday 7 October 2024, according to a state government release reported by ETGovernment and a Prabhat Khabar report of the press conference.
- Under the MoU NASSCOM is to work with the department to identify big IT investors and encourage them to invest in Bihar.
- Roadshows in Bengaluru, Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Pune were planned with NASSCOM's support. This is a plan.
- The IT minister said Airtel and CtrlS had registered with the department to develop IT infrastructure worth about Rs 450 crore, and that more than 10 IT companies had shown interest. These are government claims about proposals, not realised investment.
Still to be confirmed
3 things to watch for
- The MoU text, its duration and any fee or cost to the state.
- Whether the five roadshows were held under this MoU. A Bihar IT industry meet in Hyderabad on 7 August 2026 is recorded on the Bihar IT Policy 2024 record, but its source does not mention NASSCOM.
- Any investment attributable to the MoU.
How it unfolded (1)
Each step as a dated source records it, oldest first
- MoU approved
The IT department and NASSCOM signed an MoU, announced by IT minister Santosh Kumar Suman at a press conference in Patna.
ETGovernment · Prabhat Khabar
Sources (2)
Who reported it, when, and what they cover
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ETGovernment Established news |
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Prabhat Khabar Established news |
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Record ID: BIHAR-TECH-2024-10-001Dataset last checked Spotted an error? Report a correctionHow corrections work