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Bureaucrats are eyeing the lure and lucre of the IT sector — not to help its further growth but to join it. A horde of Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officers are putting in their papers, only to take charge of assignments in IT companies or starting one of their own.BV Naidu of Karnataka has just quit his government job as the director of the Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) in Bangalore, to head a semiconductor company. He is not the first and won’t be the last to board IT’s gravy train, say officials. “Many officers are waiting for a chance to make a move,” says Naidu, who will be the India Managing Director of SemiIndia Systems after some fifteen years of working closely with the IT industry. SimiIndia plans to invest $ 3 billion in India to make chips. Vivek Harinarayan, who was Tamil Nadu’s IT secretary till June last, has quit the IAS and will become an IT consultant next week. In Karnataka, it was Vivek Kulkarni and in Tamil Nadu it was D Prakash, who kicked off the trend many years ago, when the quit as IT secretaries and hitched onto the IT bandwagon. Kulkarni now heads a successful Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) company.
from. ..DNA