The Central government, after a delay of nearly a year and a half, on Tuesday, issued a tender for the construction of a software park in Patna – a project that had been stuck in the political red-tape since the former Chief Minister Mrs. Rabri Devi announced its set up back in November 2004.The tender was issued by the Software Technology Park of India (STPI) under the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology to build the administrative building at the New Government Polytechnic Complex in Pataliputra Colony in Patna, state Science and Technology minister Anil Kumar Sinha said.To be built at the cost of Rs. 30 crore on a three acre land, the work on the project is expected to begin within a month, Sinha said.Despite having been sanctioned the land and Rs. 1 crore for the project in November 2004, the project had been gathering dust because of political uncertainty in Bihar. However, since coming into power last November, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had been applying pressure on the UPA government to provide the much-needed momentum to the project that finally yielded result on Tuesday.Sources, however, said that despite five previous attempts by the Chief Minister, the UPA government showed no interest in reviving the project. Only after Kumar contacted the chief of Infosys expressing his desire to build a software park in Patna that the UPA government woke up from its slumber and decided to act swiftly.Politics notwithstanding, the move is expected rejuvenate the spirits of many young entrepreneurs who had been waiting for this opportunity for quite some time.The park would be fully functional in one year and would offer high speed Internet connection besides state-of-the-art equipment, Sinha said.
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RANJAN RITURAJ SINH
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