Herald: Making Goa the IT destination - 0 views
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desai_amogh on 20 Oct 15"Goa may have five Information Technology (IT) colleges that churn over a 1,000 students every year, but only a handful are placed in companies and organizations within the State. The reason: the lack of an IT atmosphere and resources to make it one. It isn't that Goans lack the potential to be at the top. The likes of Andrea Colaco and Cognizant CEO Francisco D'Souza only prove this point. But the education sector may not be creating the required levels of interest in students and that too from a very young age. Unlike Bangalore that have drafted a separate policy called the i4 policy dedicated specifically to IT, ITeS, Innovations Incentives policy, Goa functions with an Investment Policy of 2014 and no separate IT policy as such. The last drafted IT policy is in 2005. A look at the Investment Policy 2014 and its clear the government takes a more industry based approach rather than an educated one. "