West Bengal promises Infosys maximum built-up space
August 25th, 2010 - 10:20 pm ICT by IANSKolkata, Aug 25 (IANS) Keen to rope in IT major Infosys into the state, West Bengal Wednesday promised to give the company the maximum built-up space under the law in its proposed campus at Rajarhat in the city’s northeastern outskirts.
“Infosys chairman (N.R. Narayana Murthy) had a talk with the Chief Minister (Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee). They have seen and liked a plot. They want to know how much floor area ratio (FAR) they would get,” Housing Minister Gautam Deb told reporters here.
“We have said we will give them the highest. If legally possible we will give some more. The chief minister is desperate to get Infosys in West Bengal,” Deb said.
FAR is the ratio of the total floor area of buildings to the size of the land, or the limit imposed on such a ratio.
Narayana Murthy was here Tuesday to inaugurate city’s first cyber crime police station.
Murthy also visited the 50-acre plot which the government has allotted to it.
The West Bengal government scrapped the proposed IT hub project in Rajarhat last year after the it became controversial following allegations that land sharks - allegedly backed by some promoters - had been involved in acquisition of plots there.
Wipro got the land in January.
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