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ECONOMY BUREAU
Posted online: Friday, February 23, 2007 at 0000 hours IST
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, FEB 22 : Kerala Chief Minister VS Achuthananthan on Thursday dedicated the 8,50,000 sq ft Tejaswini facility at Technopark to the nation.
After
its phase-I expansion, the 3.2 million sq ft Technopark here
leads Indian IT parks in built-up area. Earlier, it was smaller than ITPL (International Technology Park), Bangalore and Tidal park, Chennai.
"The expansion ensures the best infrastructural support to the entire
host of IT firms, who recently approached me for investing in Technopark," the Chief Minister said.
Besides the
15,000 IT professionals employed in Technopark, as many as
6000 additional jobs are created by the extra space. Technopark houses 120 IT firms. Further expansion spreading to another
600 acres is underway.
The new Tejaswini facility, advance-leased by firms like
Infosys, Ernst & Young, SunTec, US Technology, Alliance Cornhill, Stock Holding Corporation of India and Office Tiger, also claims to be
India's biggest single building devoted to IT industry. Nasscom President Kiran Karnik, who was guest of honour at the function, commented that the high-speed connectivity between Thiruvananthapruam and Kochi should be built up to optimise the skilled manpower in these cities.
"
High quality of life indices and availability of skills are expected to
favour Thiruvananthapuram, as the focus shifts to Tier 2 cities. After all, the second wave of outsourcing is on," Radhakrishnan Nair, CEO, Technopark, said.
The Kerala government, as part of its IT policy, is also planning to set up finishing schools to groom raw graduates for IT jobs.