Uttar Pradesh IT and Electronics Minister Sunil Kumar Sharma, who represents Sahibabad assembly segment in Ghaziabad, claims that his constituency has every potential to identify itself as a big industrial as well as IT hub of the country.
“The 10-year misrule regime of Arvind Kejriwal in Delhi had provided us full opportunity to develop our area and people too preferred Ghaziabad than the national capital,” he said, adding that in the past 8 years of the Yogi Adityanath regime, everything was done by the double engine government to promote Ghaziabad and its surrounding areas like Noida and Greater Noida.
Sahihabad, the industrial belt of Ghaziabad on the National Capital Region (NCR), was in the limelight after Uttar Pradesh’s first state-of-the-art Green Data Centre foundation was set up on June 26.
In an interaction with The Statesman, Sharma said Chief Minister Rekha Gupta led government in Delhi is improving the state of affairs.
The UP minister also said that better law and order situation in UP, including Ghaziabad has given a boost to the industry and investments, turning the state as a preferred choice for the investors.
Besides, he said that youths are attracted towards Sahibabad and large numbers of employment have been generated in his constituency.
“The BJP government in UP has concentrated its policy in all the regions with a focus on the backward areas. Sahibabad and Ghaziabad too have been in the priority of the government, and several new industrial units are coming up there with youths getting more employment opportunities,” he claimed.
Talking about the state’s first data centre coming up in Sahibabad, Sharma, two time MLA with winning by a record highest margin in the state assembly polls, said that the bhumi pujan for a state-of-the-art Green Data Centre was done on June 26 and the project is a collaborative venture between Central Electronics Limited (CEL), a Government of India PSU under CSIR, and ESDS, a leading data centre services provider.
“The ₹1,000 crore project will house a 30 MW capacity data centre built to global Tier III/ TIA/ Uptime standards. Designed with a sustainable architecture, it will accommodate over 200 high-density server racks per floor, powered by energy-efficient and renewable technologies,” he added.
Commenting on his department’s achievement, the minister said ,” we have already introduced e-vidhan sabha, e-office in all departments and even our cabinet meeting has shed any paper-file. In Lucknow we are setting up an IT city for which land is being identified while a new IT policy, first in the country after the Center’s policy will pave the way for bigger facilities and benefits for the investors.”