Technopolis to help provide jobs for 3,000 IT, ITES professionals

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30 October 2003

Kochi: Technopolis, a nine-storey state-of-the-art IT park housing a rooftop restaurant, a full-fledged gymnasium, travel desks, ATMs, banks and a library-cum-information bureau, will be ready for occupation by November 2004.

The IT park project is being established at a two-acre plot at the Cochin Special Economic Zone, Kakkanad, by the Muthoot Pappachan Group with a project cost of Rs 35 crore. Technopolis is expected to provide employment opportunities for at least 3,000 IT and IT-enables services professionals.

Muthoot Pappachan Group managing director Thomas John Muthoot says the group has engaged Jurong Infrastructure India, part of JTC Corporation, Singapore, to provide the urban planning, architecture, engineering and construction services for the development of Kerala's first IT Technopolis.

"Once through, Technopolis 2004 will be an architectural landmark with a high-tech and user-friendly environment of international standards for its tenants," he says. "Construction work of the park will commence next week. Technopolis will provide a work-play-live-system."

Jurong has the expertise and track record in design and development of high-tech parks and campuses in India, such as the International Tech Park and IT Corridor in Bangalore, Hitech City Phase 3 and the most recent iLabs Campus in Hyderabad.

"We are confident that Technopolis will be functional as well as aesthetic. This is a forward-looking partnership backed by the development foresight of the Muthoot Pappachan group and Jurong India's international experience," says Jurong India CEO Rao Manukutla.