Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday expressed a desire that Infosys Chief Mentor N R Narayan Murthy should head an incubation centre to groom the young talent into future entrepreneurs.

Giving an outline of the project, Modi said the state government wished to set up an incubation centre with a view to nurture young talents.

"State government wishes the incubation centre to be fully autonomous HRD (human resource development) body and if a man like Mr Murthy guides it, talented youths will get a great stimulus for carrying out their innovative experiments," Modi said.

Murthy, who called on the chief minister today, also expressed his desire to set up an Infosys research centre in the state.

"The chairman of world class IT company has reacted positively to the Gujarat government's offer to head a world class Centre for the Youths proposed to come up in the state," an official statement said.

"I will be happy to be linked with this ambitious project, but how much time I will be able to devote towards it is to be seen and I shall discuss with the government later on," the statement quoted Murthy as saying.

This is not the first time that a top official at Infosys has taken up a socially relevant project. Former Infosys chief executive Nandan Nilekani gave up his plum post to head pan-India Aadhar scheme UIDAI that seeks to create a centralised digital database for linking up the country's population.

Infosys has already evinced interest in opening an IT centre in Gujarat and sought land from the state government.

"We are yet to get land, once the Gujarat government takes a decision and I am sure that they will, we would look at the possibility of starting a centre here," Murthy had said yesterday.

In the past, senior executives of Infosys had met the Gujarat state officials many times and explored the possibility of setting up a IT centre in the state, a top state official said.