TELANGANA CAN LEAPFROG IN MANY AREAS OF TECHNOLOGY

摘要

Government is one of the biggest adopters of IT. The state IT secretaries play a pivotal role in inking, strategizing, and driving a range of technology initiatives. To know more about IT initiatives in India's youngest and newest state, Dataquest caught up with Harpreet Singh, IAS, Secretary-IT, Government of Telangana, who recently inaugurated the Hyderabad edition of the CMR Government Connect Deliberation Forum 2015. Singh has served the State of Andhra Pradesh in different capacities; he was Sub Collector, Badrachalam (1993-95), Joint Collector, Khammam (1996-98), and Collector, Vizianagaram (2000-2002). His current responsibility involves promoting IT industry, fostering skill development amongst graduates, implementing IT roadmap in the State of Telangana, among other things. Excerpts How do you see the opportunities for Telangana in the IT space? First of all, I am greatly excited to drive the IT initiatives of India's youngest and newest state. With that also comes a great responsibility and commitment to translate our vision into reality. The state is adopting a progressive IT roadmap driven by a dynamic IT minister. Our objective is to drive IT in this part of the world and transform it into a world-class hub not just for IT services, but foster more R&D initiatives in the form of specialized labs on emerging technologies like Internet of Things (IoT) and whole lot of other areas like skills development, a robust start-up ecosystem, eGovernance, and fostering investments into the state. All these are our top priorities.