A body of local realtors has offered one lakh square feet of land to American chip-maker Intel Corp for setting up an infotech centre in the city.
The offer was made by the Baroda Land Developers Association (BLDA) to Ajay Bhatt, fellow at Intel Corp, a $40-billion company manufacturing chips, boards, systems, and software for the computing and communications industries.
Talking to PTI, BLDA Joint Secretary Ashok Thakkar said "the purpose behind the offer is to make Vadodara an IT hub and put it on IT map of the country on the lines of Bangalore, Delhi and Hyderabad."
"Vadodara has the potential of emerging as an IT hub provided experts like Bhatt take up the cause. Bhatt is a native of Vadodara and moved to the US in 1980 and is now working for Intel," he said.
Thakkar said the land offer was made to Bhatt on the occasion of his felicitation programme organised by the Vadodara Mahanagar Seva Sadan (VMSS) here last night.
Responding to this offer, Bhatt said he would consider it sympathetically as he wants to contribute in the city's development. He also informed about Intel entering healthcare business.
Bhatt agreed to help update the IT syllabus of the Faculty of Engineering and Technology of the Maharaja Sayajirao University, from where he obtained his degree.
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