West Bengal plans ‘co-living places’ in Kolkata to attract IT professionals

The West Bengal government is planning to set up “co-living places” through a joint venture in Kolkata to offer affordable and shared housing facilities to young IT professionals and entrepreneurs in order to attract talent from all over India and Bangladesh.

The decision for this unique initiative has been taken by the government to help young IT professionals, entrepreneurs and innovators, who are working in the IT industry at Kolkata’s Rajarhat and New Town areas. Speaking on the concluding day of the two-day “Technology Senate BANGLA”, organised by The Express Group, Debashis Sen, additional chief secretary of the state’s IT department, said, “We are trying to help the ecosystem by creating co-living places. We are trying to create the idea of co-living places along with co-working places so that the complete ecosystem is existing and we attract latents from all over India and also from Bangladesh.”