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“I congratulate the government of West Bengal on laying the foundation stone for the Bengal Silicon Valley Hub here in Kolkata. The first phase of the Bengal Silicon Valley will be spread over 100 acres.Even as Infy promised creation of 1,000 engineering jobs at its IT campus, Reliance Jio asked for 40 acres for its Rs 1,000 crore state-of-the-art data centre plan at the Silicon Valley hub. “This (project) marks the re-affirmation of our faith in Bengal. Buoyed by the response from the two giants, she even directed IT secretary Debasish Sen to arrange for another 100 acres for the phase 2 of the IT hub in New Town-Rajarhat area. Fujisoft and Amazon signed an agreement with Webel—the state nodal agency for IT—for skill development in various specialised areas of IT and telecom like 3D printing, cyber security, machine learning, animation, internet of things and other areas..