KOLLAM: Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan will inaugurate the Technopark’s first spoke - Kollam Technopark - at 4 p.m. on Tuesday. Technopark CEO Merwin Alexander and District Collector S.Lalithambika told a news conference here on Monday that the Chief Minister would also announce the name of the first IT Building in the park. Technopark is being developed in 40 acres of Special Economic Zone as a most modern and global standard IT park in Kundara, on the banks of the scenic Ashtamudi lake. Indian Cricket former Captain Krishnamachari Srikkanth is the special guest for the inaugural function.
M A Baby, Minister for Education, will preside over the function. Kollam Technopark is offering one lakh square feet of built-up space with plug-and-play facilities. The project, when completed, will have 2 million sq.ft of built-up space and will provide employment to around 10,000 IT/ITES professionals.
“The work on the conceptual design for a modern IT building, measuring half-a-million sq.ft. of built-up space incorporating the green building concept is already progressing,” Merwin Alexander said and added that the first-phase of the Technopark would be completed by August, 2011. The remaining land will be allotted to IT/ITES companies and IT infrastructure developers as developed plots as per the master plan. Nabard has sanctioned Rs 49.53 crore towards the development of the Technopark.
Mervin Alexander said that a working women’s hostel with 100 rooms would be completed soon at the Technopark. The Central Government is likely to sanction Rs 1 crore as grant for this.
He said that the IT firms in Thiruvananthapuram Technopark so far had provided employment to 28,000 people. In the coming year, there will be 2 lakh new IT jobs available in the market and the TCS alone will give employment 40,000 persons, he said.
