Rajasthan gets a new IT organization

Formed with
an aim to expedite IT penetration in the state of Rajasthan, a new
Jaipur based association, Rajasthan Information Technology
Organization (RITO), has been established to fulfi ll the task.
Besides IT hardware, the organization will be working towards the
betterment of IT entrepreneurs, IT partners, IT education, software
companies, vendors, telecoms, distributors, power sectors, IT HR and
IT persons for the entire state of Rajasthan. RITO has become a nodal
organization which plans for IT growth and is committed to work for
the development of Rajasthan IT industry.

It is
emerging as the most important IT forum in the state. Started with 7
core office bearers. Currently, the association has 200 members from
all across Rajasthan, which RITO will take up to 1,000 members by
March 2012. Speaking exclusive to The DQ Week, Tarun Taunk, newly
elected president of RITO asserted, “This concept was proposed by
the Rajasthan government to promote the benefits of IT in all
departments of the state government. It has kept 3% IT budget for all
the departments to promote IT in a big way. Hence, our organization
covers wide spectrum of IT related sectors and their issues.
Therefore, we do not compete or have a clash with any existing
organizations. Moving forward, we will be adding new chapters into
our fold.”

He also
added, “Today, Rajasthan has lower adoption of IT as compared to
other states like Kerala and Karnataka. So, our intention is to
educate all the shareholders including corporates, government and
end-customers and sensitize them for the needs and benefi ts of IT.”
The association is also planning to conduct educational seminars and
training workshops. To begin with it is organizing a seminars on
'Open Source'. “We will be supported and funded by the
Government for various IT related products in the next fi nancial
year,” said Taunk.