Hamirpur (HP), Dec 17: The district of Hamirpur is likely to come on the map of the data management system if a proposal to allot suitable land for the project gets clearance from the state government in Rit village of the Nadaun revenue subdivision, officials said here on Friday.
A multinational data management company, Linnunrata of VueNow has offered to establish a centre at a cost of Rs 450 crore on 24 acres at the industrial area coming up near Rit village in Nadaun, according to Sukhvinder Kharoda, managing director of Linnunrata.
Kharoda visited the site along with Tilak Raj Sharma, Additional Director Industries visited the proposed site for the data centre on Tuesday. The company would provide training and jobs to youths of the state, particularly those from the district.
Kharoda said, “Linnunrata is an edge data centre venture by VueNow. Once all clearances are accorded, the centre will be established to deliver high-end cloud computing services and cached data to end-users”.
Rakesh Kumar Prajapati, Director Industries, said that the company had decided to set up the centre on the identified land. Linnunrata would invest Rs 450 crore at the Rit data centre, and the file of the company was with the government for the final approval.
It’s worth mentioning here that a large number of youngsters of the state that study in the NIT, Hamirpur get placements in multinational companies in India and abroad and if the proposal of the Linnunrata becomes a reality, such youngsters will no longer have to go abroad to get jobs.
There are reports that more than four hundred young data analysts of the state are doing jobs in other parts of India and abroad.
