Mindtree Kalinga Launched in Bhubaneswar
BHUBANESWAR: IT major Mindtree launched its Global Learning and Software Delivery Centre, Mindtree Kalinga, here on Tuesday.
The facility, that would serve as a training centre for the company’s recruits as well as software delivery centre for its global clients, was inaugurated by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
Speaking on the occasion, Naveen asserted that IT sector was on the top of Government’s agenda. The State Government is going to spend around `4,000 crore towards development of IT, ITES and ESDM sector in next five years.
“The Government has brought out the ICT Policy - 2014 and Industrial Policy Resolution - 2015 where we strive to make Odisha a preferred IT destination by providing a slew of attractive fiscal incentives and concessions. We have a target of creating one lakh jobs in IT sector in the next five years,” Naveen said.
Mindtree has invested `125 crore in the first phase at Kalinga campus that boasts of a 20 acre campus. The Global Learning Centre will train around 2,500 young engineers recruited from different parts of the world every year.
The Software Delivery Centre will be a Centre of Excellence focusing on serving global clients in the insurance domain. Currently, there are around 800 tech associates working in the facility, Chairman, Subroto Bagchi said.
The company has already finalised plans for second and third phase expansion that will integrate the company’s other core areas like retail manufacturing, banking and finance, travel and transport and hi-tech. The second phase project execution will go underway as early as December this year. The total investment in both the phases would be around `125 crore, CEO Krishna Kumar Natarajan told mediapersons.
The smart campus not only boasts of use of innovative technologies for efficient utilisation of resources but also is novel in many ways. The campus has been built using one million bricks made from earth dug out of the site without using fire, ash and additional water.
The company has pledged a matching contribution to the Mid Day Meal programme undertaken by Akshay Patra Foundation in Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Puri districts for every meal eaten by a Mindtree employee on campus.