Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic was in Indjija today where the foundation stone was laid for the construction of an IT Park.
Cvetkovic explained that India’s Embassy Group has thus marked the beginning of the construction of an IT and business park which will gather companies dealing with new technologies.
He stressed that this is a milestone in the development of information technologies and a new chapter in Serbia’s economic development, noting that 1,000 young experts will find employment in the IT Park.
Cvetkovic stressed that building such a park in the time of crisis shows that the Serbian government has led a stable economic policy and preserved the country’s economic potential.
The IT Park in Indjija is of international importance, it will be export-oriented and will employ young experts, thus enveloping all relevant points of this government’s mandate, he remarked.
The Prime Minister voiced his expectation that the IT Park will have an impact on the formation of new generations of experts and enable Serbia to become a regional leader in IT development.
The Serbian government is permanently committed to helping the development of the IT sector as a chance for the country’s progress, Cvetkovic stressed, adding that the struggle will continue in order to enable young experts to live off their work in Serbia.
President of the Vojvodina Executive Council Bojan Pajtic underlined that the project will help to employ over 10,000 IT engineers over the next five years thus turning Vojvodina into an IT region.
He announced that the provincial government will increase the number of students of information technologies at universities and create a foundation for Serbia and Vojvodina to start exporting high technologies.
Embassy Group is the first Indian company in Vojvodina and Serbia, he said, noting that the possibilities for cooperation with this dynamic and friendly country are not sufficiently exploited.
Indian Ambassador to Serbia Nengcha Lhouvum Mukhopadhaya said that India and Serbia are two friendly states, but that their cooperation so far has been mostly political, which means that it can now be expanded to the economic sphere.
She said that the economic crisis showed that all states in the world depend on each other and need each other in order to overcome the crisis.
Indjija municipal president Goran Jesic stressed that Embassy Group has made the first step and voiced his expectation that the investment in the IT Park will be further enlarged.
The IT Park construction project includes the construction of class A office space totalling 25,000 square metres in four office buildings.
The first stage will be completed in the second quarter of 2013. Over the next five years, the IT Park may be expanded onto 250,000 square metres of office space.
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