"There is no such thing as a traffic jam in Chandigarh": Punjab CM

Amarinder comes fishing for IT investment
Vijay Times

Bangalore: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday met software industry honchos here and declared that State which led the Greeen Revolution was fertile ground for investments in the IT sector.

Singh, who held meetings with the top brass of companies such as Infosys Technolgies, Wipro, Intel, TCS, Satyam, IBM and Dell, projected Mohali as an upcoming destination for software, IT-enabled services and hardware operations.
“I found them all very positive. Nobody gives a commitment initially but certainly they are going to look at Punjab,” Amarinder Singh told reporters here.

Amarinder Singh also did not miss the opportunity to take a dig at Bangalore's infrastructure problems. “We haven’t come with the objective of taking companies away. We have not only heard of the infrastructure problems but also experienced it. We got late because of a traffic jam,” he remarked.

Contrasting this with the situation in Chandigarh, he said “there is no such thing as a traffic jam there. We are expanding according to plan. We are looking at Punjab 5-8 years hence, infrastructure-wise.”

But the focus of attention for the development of the IT sector would be Mohali, where he promised a “controlled environment.” Explaining the rationale for his aggressive wooing of IT firms, the Chief Minister said that his desire was to ensure that Punjab replicated its success in agriculture in the IT field too.