Want to make Goa niche centre for high-end IT firms: Khaunte

PORVORIM: The state government may want to place Goa on the global IT map but rather than attract every kind of IT company, minister for information technology

Rohan Khaunte

wants to make Goa a niche for knowledge outsourcing, artificial intelligence, augmented reality and high-precision solar energy technology.

Speaking exclusively to


TOI,

Khaunte

said that the objective of the Goa IT Investment policy and

Goa Startup

policy is to create 10,000 jobs in niche sectors over the next five years.

“There are new opportunities. We have artificial intelligence, we have augmented reality, we have virtual reality. We have so many new segments coming up and Goan professionals have a natural inclination by virtue of adapting to such knowledge,” he said.