Bhubaneswar: With unhelpful climatic condition and unusual rain causing serious distress among state farmers at present, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Friday urged the Centre to set up a C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing) Regional Centre here to spur research in high performance computing and data analytics, which would help in weather forecasting and disaster management.
At present, Kolkata is the only city in the eastern part of the country which has a regional C-DAC centre. Orissa, being a coastal state and prone to cyclones, application of high performance computing can help in weather forecasting and disaster management, the Chief Minister wrote to Union Electronics & Information Technology Minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad.
“Orissa has been making steady progress in the field of Electronics and Information and Communication Technology. In its bid to draw more investment in IT and electronics sector, the state government is developing a dedicated Electronics Park near Bhubaneswar, with state-of-the-art infrastructure and research facilities that will house electronic manufacturing units,” the letter said.
The application of high performance computing would also help industries and governance, the letter said.
Stating that Orissa has got two IT SEZs with all major IT companies operating from there and several prominent national level educational institutions like IIT, IIM, AIIMS, NISER, IISER, Institute of Physics, Institute of Mathematics, IMMT and NIT are functioning from Bhubaneswar, the Chief Minister said that the state government also wants to set up C-DAC Centre of Excellence in its technical universities and engineering colleges like the one (C-DAC Centre of Excellence) set up in VSS University of Technology at Burla.
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