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Kolkata, Feb. 21 The West Bengal Minister for Information Technology, Dr Debesh Das, on Thursday urged the Centre to come out with a national hardware policy with a view to facilitating growth of the hardware industry in the country.

Speaking at the inaugural session of the Infocom 07-08 Conference & Exhibition organised here by Businessworld and CeBIT, Dr Das said while the software sector had grown appreciably, the hardware segment was yet to take off as desired.

He felt a national hardware policy would provide States with the right impetus to put in place a system that would encourage investment in hardware manufacturing.

Dr Das also presented a strong case for extending up to 2020, the benefits currently available to IT companies registered with Software Technology Parks of India. This, he said, would also help small-sized IT companies which are not able to set up operations in SEZs.

In his welcome address, Mr D.D. Purkayastha, Organising Secretary of Infocom 07-08, said the theme of this year’s conference was `Service Excellence through ICT’.

The service industry, he said, was now a force to reckon with in India, contributing nearly 55 per cent of the GDP in 2006-07.

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