Karnataka government to go ‘Beyond Bengaluru’ for IT
The Karnataka government on Thursday said it would promote tech-based industries in six cities by offering firms a slew of incentives as part of its new ‘Beyond Bengaluru’ initiative, even though previous such attempts yielded no results.
The ‘Beyond Bengaluru’ initiative will focus on Mysuru, Mangaluru, Hubballi-Dharwad and Shivamogga, Kalaburagi and Belagavi, said Deputy Chief Minister CN Ashwath Narayan, who also holds the IT/BT portfolio.
“There were efforts to develop these cities earlier, but their full potential was not realised,” Narayan said, referring to the difficulty in creating an alternative to Bengaluru. “But now, the time is conducive to go beyond Bengaluru in the wake of reverse migration that happened because of the Covid-19 pandemic.”