Plan for two electronic clusters in Karnataka.

Software hub Karnataka, which is aiming to become the no. 1 destination for electronics manufacturing, will push for having one of the two proposed national chip fabrication ('fab') projects in the State, Minister for Information Technology S.R. Patil said.

Addressing the ninth Vision Summit of the India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA), Mr. Patil said it had submitted its plan, to set up an electronic manufacturing cluster each in Bangalore and Mysore at a cost of Rs. 85 crore, to the Union government. Eight ESDM (electronic system design and manufacturing) companies had applied to the Information Technology Department for incentives.

'We are preparing the ground for setting up ESDM clusters in brownfield and greenfield across the State, and to take electronics manufacturing beyond Bangalore,' he said.

The Hindu