PATNA: IT giant Tata Consultancy Services TCS ) is opening a 1,000-seater BPO centre under the India BPO Promotion Scheme (IBPS) in the state capital here.The TCS centre, being the largest BPO setup in eastern region under the IBPS, would create 3,000 direct jobs in Bihar’s capital as it would work 24X7 in three shifts, the Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) Director General Omkar Rai said here on Wednesday.Rai said the new BPO facility would create a right ecosystem and change IT scenario in Bihar, apart from creating large-scale direct and indirect employment. The TCS centre would also create several managerial jobs besides opening avenues for hundreds of allied IT-related job opportunities in the state, he added.The TCS’s BPO centre will be inaugurated by union minister of electronics & information technology and law & justice Ravi Shankar Prasad during a programme here on Thursday in the presence of Bihar’s education and information technology minister Ashok Choudhary , local MP and union minister Ram Kripal Yadav and TCS CEO Rajesh Gopinathan.Rai said Bihar has been allocated 4,600 seats under the IBPS, out of which 1,910 have been allotted to the successful companies for setting up of their BPO and ITES (IT enabled services) operation in the state after third round of bidding. These 4,600 seats have potential of creating around 15,000 IT/ ITES jobs in the state.Apart from the TCS, nine other companies have been allocated 910 seats for opening their BPO/ ITES set-ups at Patna, Muzaffarpur and Dalsinghsarai, a sub-divisional town in Samastipur district. A 100-seater BPO would soon be set up at Dalsinghsarai, which will be first of its kind in a small township in Bihar, Rai said.Coinciding with launching of the TCS’ BPO facility, the STPI is going to organise a seminar on IT/ITES entrepreneurship and start-ups in Bihar on Thursday. Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad will inaugurate the seminar and address the start-up entrepreneurs in the presence of TCS CEO and Bihar government’s IT secretary Rahul Singh.