BANGKOK: Thailand is liberalizing the import of knowledge workers from India to increase the pace of its development, especially in the Information technology sector. Talking to an Indian media delegation visiting the country under the Indo-ASEAN media exchange program, Thailand's Trade Representative and former minister Prachuab Chaiyasan said his government was ready to liberalize its policies and give concessions to the Indian knowledge workers to take their help in improving the capability of Thai IT industry. ''Our government believes in free flow of human resources. We need thousands of intellectual brains every year and are promoting Indian and Chinese brains to come to Thailand.'' Pointing out that India since ancient time has been the spring of knowledge, philosophy, and mathematics and now has become an important destination of intellectual property. Though Indian and Thailand both started in the field of IT at the same time, the pace of Indian development has been much faster due to its immense potential of its population of over a billion. The outsourcing and export of intangible products from India was more than $12 billion, he pointed out. ''A few thousand IT workers in Bangalore earn same amount as Thailand earns from exporting its rice while the later employs the labor of a large number of people. So we want to change the situation and improve the capability of Thai IT industry with the help of Indian knowledge workers,'' Chaiyasan said. Pointing out that Infosys President Narayana Murthy was the personal advisor and friend of Thailand Prime Minister, the trade representative said that many universities of Thailand have signed agreement with Universities in Bangalore for collaboration in the field of information technology education. He mentioned that Isquare Institute of Bangalore has signed an MoU with the Maefalauge University of Thailand for software training. Highly impressed by the knowledge of English, mathematics, logic and scientific temper of Indians, Chaiyasan said that his government would also facilitate entry of English teachers from India. This would help overcome a major obstacle for Thai workers who suffer a major handicap due to their poor knowledge of English. Chaiyasan, who is the chief negotiator of Thailand in the World Trade Organization and bilateral trade talks with Asia, CIS nations and Russia, stressed the need for improving the people to people contact between India and ASEAN nations. ''The government to government relations between India and Thailand is excellent and cordial, but if the people of both countries do not follow it, the relationship would not grow further,'' he said and welcomed more Indians to visit Thailand. Lauding the role of media towards enhancing ASEAN-India relations, he said that it would go a long way in improving people to people contact and understanding of each other. The trade representative informed that the Thailand government was considering giving special visa to business people from India. These visas would be for short duration of three months with multiple countries in the region, he added.