Electronics City, Kochi, also known as NeST Electronic City is an under construction

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targeting electronics hardware manufacturing, promoted by NeST group located at

Kochi Kochi (), also known as Cochin ( ) ( the official name until 1996) is a major port city on the Malabar Coast of India bordering the Laccadive Sea, which is a part of the Arabian Sea. It is part of the district of Ernakulam in the state of K ...

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. The SEZ will be built over a land area of in

Kalamassery Kalamassery () is a major industrial region in the city of Kochi in the state of Kerala, India. It houses companies like Apollo Tyres and HMT; IT/Electronics Parks like KINFRA Hi Tech Park, Startup Village, and Electronics City. Kalamassery ...

on a budget of 2500 Crores. The notified processing area will extend to , dedicated to Electronics Hardware Manufacturing, Software Development and IT Enabled services. It also accommodates a non processing area of occupied by a shopping mall with multiplex and an international convention centre, as well as residential apartments and condominiums.

Location and connectivity

The township is located 17 km from the city centre and 22 km from the

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, among an area where a number of other similar developments are being planned. The distance to

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is 5 km. The

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’s communication gateway is located less than 7 km from the park. This gateway handles around 70% of the country’s data traffic.
Kerala has cost effective bandwidth Two submarine cables, namely SAFE (cable system), SAFE and SEA-ME-WE 3 have their landing points at the gateway. Kochi offers

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and

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route of connectivity to the US.

Infrastructure

70% of the built up area of the township will be used for IT and ITES industries. The remaining 30% will be non processing area, used for residential, commercial and entertainment purposes.

References

External links

Keralait.org
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Location and connectivity

Infrastructure

See also

References

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