Bhubaneswar, April 5: Odisha Chief Secretary Aditya Parsad Padhi Monday performed the ground breaking ceremony of the software development block of the leading IT company the Mind Tree here at its centre in the Infocity.
Padhi took an overview of the activities of Mind Tree in Odisha.
Around 1000 young engineers have already received professional training from its global learning center. The company would start special learning programme on various IT themes for IT engineers from the current year, said sources in Mind Tree.
Replying to a media quarry after the ceremony, Center Head of Mind Tree Anindya Mitra said that the present project would be the 2nd Phase Software Development Block. “This block would provide the space and facility for 1500 IT engineers to design and develop various software applications”, said Mitra, adding that the initial estimate of the project has been kept over Rs.50 cr.
Padhi inaugurated the project amidst chanting of sacred versions from Veda, Koran and Bibel. The Principal Secretary IT Pradeep Kumar Jena, Secretary Women & Child Development Vishal Dev, Municipal Commissioner, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation Kishan Kumar, Dr. Subroto Bagchi the co-founder of Mind Tree along with other dignitaries and engineers were among others present in the ground breaking ceremony.
