As companies take a look at smaller cities to escape high real estate prices, unaffordable salary demands and high attrition rates, G is seeing a burst of IT dominated by BPOs. The state may find it difficult to wean away IT giants form Bangalore, but numbers and encouraging, say sources in the industry. So much so that it around 10,000 persons are employed in the IT sector in Gujarat at priest mates expect the figure to go up to 50,000 in the next couple of years. Anupam Saxena, general manager (marketing) of Creative In campus, Gujarat’s first major IT park near Gandhinagar said. “We had zero companies on the campus one year after the communal riots in Today, our first ‘info-tower’ of 250,000 square feet and soft-tower of 200,000 lakh square feet are sold out. Infotower-II is 60 per cent fu booking is one for soft-tower-II.” While Bangalore offers the a square foot of space at Rs. 55, pune at around Rs 40 and Hyderabad at between 40 and Rs 45, Gujarat leases out space at Rs 23 a square foot. IT honchos are also hoping that Gujarat has the critical mass needed to large players. While BPO major Mphasis has already set up shop in Ahmedabad. TCS has acquired 20 acres of land in infocity. Covansys acquired a 75 per cent stake in Vadodara-based Fortune Infotech Limited. Fortune Infotech MD KK Patel says he is finding it difficult to every people at his Bangalore unit. “Youngsters who started with a monthly salary of Rs 10.000, demand Rs 30,000 after just a couple of year says. He finds it easier to retain people for longer periods in Vadodara.