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"PANJIM: The Goa IT Professionals (GITP) group has urged the government to promote Goan IT and Information Technology enabled Services (ITeS) sectors, since it will generate highly technical, semi-technical and service oriented employment for locals.  In their memorandum, emailed to Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, the association also assured that it would actively contribute to the government - right from planning to implementation of the project.  "It will help reverse the prevalent brain drain of Goa's educated workforce and with the right regulations in place, arrest the influx of undesired workforce into Goa. The recommendations in our memorandum can help Goa effectively tackle such chronic issues and preserve the much treasured Goan identity, heritage and environment," the GITP memorandum reads."

"PANJIM, AUG 6 Chief Minister Digambar Kamat on Thursday stated that the government would make all efforts to get the Rajiv Gandhi IT Habitat at Dona Paula started so that Information Technology (IT) professionals can get job placements in the State itself. The chief minister made the statement while speaking on the Goa Appropriation Bill (No 3), 2009 (Goa budget) in the Goa Assembly on Thursday. �I will hold a dialogue with all stakeholders of the Rajiv Gandhi IT Habitat so that the project comes up. This will create lot of jobs which will be available to the Goan IT engineers who otherwise have to go out of the State for employment, he said."

PANAJI: Scarcity of employment opportunities has often prompted Goans to leave the state in search of better opportunities. Bucking this gloomy brain drain are Prajyot Mainkar, Mangirish Salelkar and Nigel Quadros who put Goa on the global technology map from their sunny home, which anybody would agree, is not known to feature very high on the information technology map.

"PANJIM: A group of Goan IT professionals have written to the Chief Minister and chairman of Infotech Corporation with suggestions, recommendations and expectations on the draft IT policy 2015 highlighting the need to encourage local units through government IT projects and other incentives."