Meeting with the IT Minister - Promotion of the IT Park - Road show on IT Parks in Madurai conducted by NASSCOM

Dear Sir/Madam,

We cordially invite you for the NASSCOM and Tidel Park Joint event on “Road show on IT Parks at Madurai” scheduled for the Friday, 02nd December 2011 at pandian Hotel - Madurai.

The state of Tamil Nadu is amongst the leaders in IT adoption and the opportunities that follow therewith. In fact, it is the second largest IT BPO cluster in India, contributing a lot to the sector’s exports and generating direct employment for 3 lakh IT professionals. The role of Elcot Park is quite significant in developing the IT-BPO Sector. Presently, they are focused in marketing IT Space at Madurai.

With so much happening, we felt the need for a road show at Madurai initially and followed in other places viz. Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, New Delhi, etc, where the government and industry can come together. It is an opportunity for the industry to interact with

Thiru. K.A. Sengottaiyan - Minister for Information Technology
Govt. of Tamil Nadu,

Dr. Santosh Babu IAS -Secretary to Government, Information Technology Dept,

Thiru. Atul Anand IAS MD of ELCOT

about what the state of Tamil Nadu can offer to the IT BPO sector and also get a deeper understanding of what the industry expects from the government.

Please participate, and leverage this opportunity and add value. Also do join us for the Networking lunch thereafter.

We look forward to your valuable presence.

Dear Friends,

The Government of Tamilnadu in association with NASSCOM. CII and SIDA organizing a meeting with the State minister for IT, IT Secretary and MD,ELCOT for the promotion of IT park related activities in Madurai. SIDA is working on a feasibility report to be submitted to the Government which would benefit the small and medium IT companies operating in this region. This includes lowering of the rentals, removal of the SEZ status, incubation facilities, seed capital/soft loan facilities etc. It is the responsibility and right of ordinary citizens like us to avail the benefits from the schemes. Hence I request you to take part in this important meeting which would certainly help individual organizations as well the region as a whole. Please find the invitation attached.

Meeting Information:
Date: 02-12-2011
Time: 9.45 AM onwards followed by Lunch
Venue: Hotel Fortune Pandyan, Madurai

Look forward to your positive participation.

With best regards,

R.Sivarajah,

President -SIDA,

Convener - ICT Panel, CII-Madurai Zone,

Jt.Managing Director
Winways Systems Private Limited,
Phone: +91-452-4394466 / 4394488 / 4375506 / 2583838 / 4375504
Fax: +91-452-4394488
Hand Phone: -9840944410
email: rsiva@winways.co.in

IT Opportunities in Madurai - a new face of Madurai

Numerous job opportunities available in the software industry in Madurai and the southern districts are to be showcased to the students of engineering colleges in the region through a series of awareness programmes called ‘IT opportunities @ Madurai'. This initiative has been taken by the ICT panel of the Confederation of Indian Industry, Madurai Zone (CII), along with the Software Industries Development Association of South Tamil Nadu (SIDA).and an awareness session was recently held at Kamarajar College of Engineering, Virudhunagar, in which around 500 students and their parents participated.

According to Mr Sivarajah, Convenor of ICT Panel, CII, Madurai Zone, and President, SIDA, a large portion of the workforce of multinational companies in the cosmopolitan and metro cities such as Chennai and Bangalore have been sourced from the institutions in the region.

Next is Vellachamy Nadar college on 3rd august, 2011

Source Hindu Business Line.

Formation of STITIA - An Association for IT Software & Services Companies Operating in South Tamilnadu

Dear Friends,

Greetings!

Thank you very much for taking part in the ICT companies meeting held at Winways Systems on the 29th, July, 2009.

You are all aware that we are discussing about forming a regional ICT companies association and the above said meeting was the 4th one in the series.

The minutes of the meeting as follows:
1). It was decided to form the structure of the association with minimum 7 EC members and office bearers in the next meeting.

2). It was suggested to seek the interest of the members who are willing to take part in the formation of the association as founder members. In this connection I kindly request you to confirm your interest to become a founder member and pay the proposed subscription amount of Rs.1000/-(one thousand only) through a reply mail.

3). It was decided to identify the members who are interested to become EC members of the association. The main criteria is that they should be able to spend reasonable time and energy for the growth of the association. Hence, I also seek your interest in becoming an EC Member. Please confirm it through a mail.

4). Once we get the responses from members who are interested to join the association and interested to take part as EC members, a meeting will be called to finalize the list of EC members and to select the office bearers.

5). On deciding the above, the date of registration of the association will be decided.


I kindly request each one of you to confirm your interest to become a founder member of STITIA trough a mail. Also express your willingness to become an Executive Committee (EC) member.


Look forward to your support in this important initiative.

Member Organizations present in the last meeting:
1). Honeywell
2). E-Soft (Partner : Ramco Systems)
3). Winways Systems
4). Chella Software
5). I-Grandee
6). Ze-Axis
7). Alpha Net
8). Bitscot
9). A&T Network Systems

With best regards,

R.Sivarajah,
Jt.Managing Director & CEO
Winways Systems Private Limited,
Phone: +91-452-4394466 / 4394488 / 4375506 / 2583838 / 4375504
Fax: +91-452-4394488
Hand Phone: -9840944410
email: rsiva@winways.co.in