Recently, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved a proposal to create information technol¬ogy investment'"'regions (ITIRs). With these regions, it aims to increase the growth of electronics hardware manu¬facturing units as well.
ITIRs will be full-fledged industrial cities. There could be integrated townships, SEZs or industrial parts and would also have residential area, social infrastructure and administrative services. Each ITIR is expected to be a specifically notified investment region with a minimum area of 40 sq.km planned for IT and electronics hardware manufacturing units.

The industry is quite happy with the efforts being made by the government. "Compliments to the government, especially minister of communications and IT, Thiru A. Raja. The government policies are very proactive for promotion of the industry. The policies have improved on a year-over-year basis. Now is the prime time for the in-