If you are a software company looking to set shop in north India, dreaming of readily available infrastructure in an integrated tech park; to move in and start operations in a jiffy…keep dreaming.

...For your dream will remain just that, at least for the time being. There are no integrated tech parks in any part of north India—like Tidel Park (Chennai) or ITPL (Bangalore) yet—not even in the NCR region. But as northern states wake up to the IT wave that has swept across states down southern and western India, there are a lot of initiatives underway promoting the setting up of integrated tech parks. The Chandigarh administration is close to signing up an agreement with Larson & Toubro for setting up the region’s first integrated tech park—to come up by end of this year.

Rakesh Nangia, executive director of Punjab Information & Communication Technology Corporation, says—"The government of Punjab will actively facilitate the construction of integrated tech parks by private sector companies." PICTC is a state-run corporation set up for promoting IT-related investments in Punjab.

Nangia also speaks of the government’s plans to set up an integrated IT township spread over 5,000 acres of land, with space for residential areas, independent plots for large companies to set up their campuses, and finally, integrated tech parks constructed in association with the private sector. Integrated tech parks apart, many IT companies do find a few good reasons to set up operations here. Infosys chose Mohali to set up its first development center in the north, and Quark Media’s development center, again in Mohali, is the company’s only point of presence in India.

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