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Information Technology growth in the state of Bihar


It is great to witness the change and the development in Bihar in the last couple of years. There has been an unprecedented growth in the basic infrastructures, real-estates, and transportation facilities along with the burgeoning malls & multiplexes in the northern Indian state. Bihar has attracted various investments across industries from Manufacturing, Services, Health-Care, to Education owing to the conducive environment in the recent time.

The northern state of Bihar was left with just Tourism as one of the leading sector to boost the economy thanks to the bifurcation in state in the late 2000. While the talented people from the state are serving across India and making their presence felt in the IT industry, it was surprising to see Bihar going unnoticed and not getting leveraged with the IT growth in the past. As many of its industries have been agriculture based, it left the IT industry lagging behind the peer states.

Amidst the stupendous growth recently across industries in Bihar, IT industry is no exception and has seen growth in terms of good number of investments being made in the region. With the set up of Software Technology Park of India (STPI) way back in 2008, Bihar has been on its way to emerge as a next IT hub in the eastern region.

The government of Bihar has taken many initiatives to promote the industry by establishing the Bihar Information Technology Authority(BITA) and Information Communication Technology(ICT) policy. Apart form this district e-governance societies(DeGS) and National Informatics Center(NIC) have been formed to implement e-governance at district level. Government departments like
Electricity department, PWD, Revenue department, Registrar office and others are leveraging the exceedingly use of technology to carry out the official work due to the gradual digitization in bureaucracy and the distribution of the laptop and tabs among government servants.

The big daddy of IT industry like TCS, Infosys, and HCL have already made a foray into Bihar growth bandwagon. The very basic services like acquiring driving licenses, residential certificates, passports that used to take ages, have now gone online and services can be availed with no more hustle. Many of the state departments have come up with their own Websites and the
bureaucracy has gone hi-tech.

Even though many of state's e-governance projects have been handed over to the large corporations, nevertheless substantial investments are yet to be made in terms of IT companies opening their branches and creating employment opportunities for the local people. With the basic infrastructure already underway, the fundamental requirements to establish IT industry at the ground level in Bihar are:
1) Land Acquisition
2) Effective power supply.

It will be interesting to see how the government tackle these two issues, as the land acquisition has been the bone of contention in many states, like for Tata in Bengal and Posco in Orissa to name a few, and power(energy) sector is still at the nascent stage in the state.

Hence armed with the lucrative IT policy and progressive governance, future of IT in the state looks promising in days to come !!

Pankaj

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