New Delhi, March 20 -- The Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday decided to rope in the Tatas to promote IT-enabled services in the state.

An official statement here said: " K. Skandan, advisor to state governor, met Tata Sons Chairman N. Chandrasekaran in Mumbai today to work out modalities for involvement of the corporate sector for institutionalised development of the IT sector in J&K."

Kashmir University Vice-Chancellor Talat Ahmad, state IT Secretary Saugat Biswas and Jammu and Kashmir State Industrial Development Corp Managing Director Ravinder Kumar were also present at the meeting, it said.

"The Chairman Tata Sons discussed the skill requirement in IT sector and its linkage with industry and tourism sectors in the State and a...