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On Thursday, Wipro Chairman Azim Premji, who is in town to attend the Annual General Meeting of the Reserve Bank of India, is going to meet the chief minister to discuss his proposed IT project in Rajarhat.
The state government has already offered Wipro a plot of land measuring 50 acres with a price of Rs.1.5 crore per acre. According to sources in CM’s office, Premji may be taken to the plot the government has earmarked for the project.
Apart from Wipro, Infosys was also very interested to get the land at New Town Rajarhat. But the price of that land deterred them. In the middle of 2006 Infosys was shown land near vedic village by WBIDC. But later, this project was scrapped by the CM himself in the face of Vedic village controversy.
Sources in the IT department said, after the scrapping of the Vedic village IT park project, the CM asked a defiant housing department to allot land for these two IT companies. Minister for Housing Gautam Deb had quoted a very high price for the Rajarhat land, which had forced the IT companies to withdraw from Rajarhat. “The CM has now forced Deb to quote a lower price. Now they will be given land at the price the TCS was given in 2006,” said an official of the department.
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