Date:05/02/2008 URL: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/02/05/stories/2008020550532100.htm

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Pune, Feb 4

Aurangabad is gearing up for the IT Business Leader Summit 2008, due to be held there from March 13 to 15. The findings of the NASSCOM - A.T. Kerney Research Report on the 50 top emerging IT & BPO destinations in the country will be released at the event that has been jointly organised by NASSCOM, Aurangabad Municipal Corporation and the Chamber of Marathwada Industries & Agriculture (CMIA) amongst others. With IT business leaders from across the country expected t o attend the conclave, the local organisers are pulling out all stops to make this, the first event of its kind at the national level, a grand success. This includes keeping a chartered aircraft on standby to ferry important guests to and from Mumbai, an official said. Recently, Aurangabad has been witness to a tremendous boom in new IT Parks, and at least five new state-of-the-art IT parks are shaping up in the city. —

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