More and more national and international IT players are showing their initiative to invest in Kolkata as the state government promises to lay out proper infrastructure for investors.

• The IT sector in Kolkata is growing at a rate of 70% per year as the city is going to offer even better infrastructure for I.T. with the proposed submarine telecommunications cables and submarine power cables in the coastal West Bengal termed as Cable Landing Point.
  
• The immediate focus is on IT Enabled Services to create brand value for the state.
  
• Ongoing projects are embarked on an aggressive IT literacy program in schools and colleges in collaboration with industry leaders such as IBM, Wipro, and NIIT

Some MNCs and corporate majors operating in Kolkata are:

• Tata Consultancy Services
• IBM Global Services India Pvt. Ltd.
• ognizant Technology Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
• sha.com India Ltd.
• CA-TCG Software Ltd
• Skytech Solutions Pvt. Ltd
• Wipro Technologies
• NIIT Ltd
• GE Capital International Services
• HCL Technologies Ltd
• Bata India
• ITC India
• Britannia Industries
• Pantaloons Retail (India) Ltd