Technocity is a

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an under construction integrated township in

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dedicated to

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, and other

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(IT). It was conceived in 2005 as the fourth phase of development of Technopark, Technocity is a complete IT City, spread across about 500 acres (200 hectares), which includes not just space for IT/ITES firms but also residential, commercial, hospitality, medical and educational facilities. The project is a new self-dependent satellite city, which would not strain the resources and infrastructure of the city of Thiruvananthapuram The units in Technocity includes a wide variety of companies engaged in a range of activities, which include

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development,

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(ERP), process control software design,

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and

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software development,

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(ITES), process re-engineering,

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and

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. The firms will include domestic companies as well as subsidiaries of multi-national organisations. Technocity is being jointly developed by the

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and private developers. The Govt. is represented by Technopark and a special company called the Kerala State Information Technology Infrastructure Limited (KSITIL). Individual phases of the project will be developed as Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) between KSITIL and individual developers. KSITIL plans to hold 26% equity share in all the SPVs. Once fully operational, Technocity is expected to create about 200,000 employment opportunities. Perspective of Technocity, Trivandrum

Infrastructure

Technocity provides all the

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and support facilities needed for IT/ITES and electronics companies to function as well as for their employees to enjoy world-class lifestyles. This is done either directly or through private partners. In addition, Technocity, like Technopark, may provide business incubation facilities.

IT Space

Technocity have up to 20 million square feet (1.9 million square meters) of built-up space within multiple buildings for its tenant organisations. This facility will be developed in phases across as many as 10 years.

Non-IT Space

Technocity is being developed as an Integrated Township and it will include residential space, commercial space, retail facilities, multiplexes, hospitals and schools. This will enable employees in the companies at Technocity to enjoy a world-class lifestyle within walking distance of their offices.

Utilities and support facilities

Technocity supply electricity through a 220 KV, 100 MVA dedicated internal power sub-station and distribution system with built-in redundancies at all levels. Water supply is from a dedicated treatment plant while there will be a sewage treatment plant built especially for Technocity. All these facilities will be developed by KSITIL and Technopark for the entire area.

Connectivity

Thiruvananthapuram is connected to the National Internet Backbone and Technocity will be serviced by a variety of bandwidth providers, including

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, Videsh Sanchar Nigam and Asianet Dataline, through fibre optic lines in the campus. FLAG Telecom—a subsidiary of

—has landed its FALCON global cable system at Thiruvananthapuram, providing direct connectivity to the

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. Technocity will be connected through fiber link, in self-healing redundant ring architecture to Reliance Internet Data Center and Gateway at Mumbai, directly connecting to FLAG, the undersea cable system backbone that connects 134 countries including U.S, U.K, Middle East and Asia Pacific. This provides connectivity with the

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Institutions

Technocity will host at least two important educational and research institutes. The Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management–Kerala (IIITM–K), which has now being upgraded to Kerala University of Digital sciences, Innovation, and Technology, has been allocated 10 acres (4 hectares) in Technocity to develop its own campus. IIITM–K is a premier institution of higher education, research and development in applied information technology and management. In addition to providing post graduate courses in Information Technology, IIITM–K is a leader in educational networking and in setting up

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which benefit the community. Portals for

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and agricultural information dissemination are among its focus areas. IIITM–K is located at present in Technopark, Thiruvananthapuram. The Asian School of Business (ASB) is an institution of post graduate management education. It was started in 2005. The ASB is currently located inside Technopark and plans to move to a campus in Technocity by 2020–21. ASB offers the full-time Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGPM). The Asian School of Business is managed by a Board of Governors which includes stalwarts of the Indian IT industry like Tata Consultancy Services CEO S. Ramadorai and Infosys CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan.

Phases of Development

Technocity will be developed in multiple phases by a number of private developers in association with KSITIL and Technopark. The developers will chosen through global bidding as each phase becomes ready to be developed. Tata Consultancy Services (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, announced that it is setting up the world's largest corporate learning and development center with a total capacity to train 15,000 professionals at one time and 50,000 professionals annually. The proposed TCS Learning Campus in Thiruvananthapuram will be located on a 97-acre property in the Technopark area of the city. The campus will be built over an area of 6.1 million square feet and feature residential accommodation for professionals and faculty at the center.

Phase I

KSITIL has called for the Request for Proposal to develop about 60 acres (0.23 km².) of land as mixed-use IT/ITES park on 16 October 2008. This will be the First Phase of Technocity. Nine major developers had qualified for the bid including the Indian subsidiary of the world's leading developer -

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, a consortium of Forest City Enterprises and Sun Group, K.Raheja Corporation, Larsen and Toubro,

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, Maytas Infrastructure and the Brigade Group.

Special Economic Zones in Technocity

There are plans for nine

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s (SEZs) within Technocity. These will be developed by multiple developers in association with KSITIL and Technopark. One SEZ has been set apart for development by Technopark itself.

Notes

External links

Technopark official websiteKerala IT Mission official website
Department of IT, Government of Kerala

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