Facing flak for failing to create jobs in proportion to the land given to the industry -- particularly the Information Technology sector -- in the last few years, Andhra Pradesh government has started pushing beneficiary companies to fulfil commitments in this regard.

The government is also anxious about fulfilling its own promise of creating employment for 15 lakh youths in the private sector in the next three years, official sources said.

Information Technology Minister, Ponnala Lakshmaiah, has started talking to IT companies to remind them about their commitments. He spoke to officials of software giant Infosys a couple of days ago, and secured an assurance that it would recruit an additional 5,000 personnel at the upcoming second campus at Pocharam here by the end of this year.

The state government had, in March last year, issued notice to Infosys seeking to take back 440 acres of land at Pocharam as the company could not execute its plans as per the agreement. The notice was withdrawn following assurance given by an Infosys delegation to the Chief Minister in August.

The campus, which was granted a Special Economic Zone status, was proposed to have an investment of Rs 1,250 crore and employ 25,000 software professionals from the state over 10 years. It was only in mid-2011 that Infosys could start a part of its first phase operations -- three years behind the schedule -- and claimed to have employed 5,000 personnel by putting in an investment of Rs 350 crore.

"By December 2012, Infosys will employ 10,000 software professionals and by the time the campus reaches its full operational capacity, it will have 62,000 professionals working," Ponnala said.

Meanwhile, Chief Financial Officer, Hakan Halen, of Hexagon group that operates Intergraph software firm here, met the Minister today and discussed the company's expansion plans. Intergraph, the first IT company to set the shop here in 1987, would hire 1,600 professionals in the next two years, the Minister was told.