{"id":363,"date":"2006-07-27T19:29:01","date_gmt":"2006-07-27T13:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/07\/27\/tcs-microsoft-spur-it-boom-in-guj\/"},"modified":"2006-07-27T19:32:02","modified_gmt":"2006-07-27T14:02:02","slug":"tcs-microsoft-spur-it-boom-in-guj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/07\/27\/tcs-microsoft-spur-it-boom-in-guj\/","title":{"rendered":"TCS, Microsoft spur IT boom in Guj"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ack:- Parchuri Gopikrishna<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With the entry of IT giants like <strong>Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Microsoft<\/strong>, <strong>Gujarat <\/strong>is hoping for a boom in this industry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Earlier we were not able to attract investments because there were <strong>communal riots<\/strong>, the attack on the <strong>Akshardham <\/strong>temple and so on. Now it is happening at the <strong>Infocity<\/strong>,&#8221; said <strong>Anupam Saxena <\/strong>of Creative Infocity Ltd, which holds a major stake in the IT park project promoted by the state government.<\/p>\n<p>He said government policies had led to a <strong>reduction <\/strong>of around <strong>40 percent <\/strong>in the cost of setting up IT businesses in Gujarat.<\/p>\n<p>Along with Microsoft and TCS, around <strong>40 companies <\/strong>are at the Infocity, which is close to the state capital <strong>Gandhinagar <\/strong>and was constructed in <strong>2000<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibnlive.com\/news\/tcs-microsoft-spur-it-boom-in-guj\/16791-7.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ack:- Parchuri Gopikrishna With the entry of IT giants like Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Microsoft, Gujarat is hoping for a boom in this industry. &#8220;Earlier we were not able to attract investments because there were communal riots, the attack on the Akshardham temple and so on. Now it is happening at the Infocity,&#8221; said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5,8],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-ahmedabad","tag-india","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}