Government of India has granted formal approval for approximately 31 acres of Infopark Kochi Phase II for setting up of a sector specific IT /ITES special economic zone. This decision was taken at a meeting of the Board of Approvals, Ministry of Commerce, and Government of India, held at New Delhi.

The second phase of Infopark Kochi is planned to be developed in 160 acres of land at the Kunnathunadu and Puthencuruz village. With the phase II of Infopark, this growth will be fuelled by capitalizing the advantages that Kerala IT has to offer with its robust infrastructure and connectivity. The park will offer the first plug and play BPO facility in the State. The park will house domestic parks as well as Special Economic Zones for IT/ITES. The domestic park in this new phase is aimed at creating cost effective infrastructure for the BPO industry. The current financial year’s budget of Government of Kerala has an allocation Rs.50 crores towards infrastructure development schemes for the phase II of Infopark.

“Like past projects, Infopark will act as a single point developer of basic infrastructure facilities such as substation, power distribution, internal road system, water intake, treatment and storage, data& communication connectivity, land development, compound wall, guest house, common food courts, etc.” said Infopark CEO, Siddhartha Bhattacharya

The formalization of the master plan is in progress and consultants are also being shortlisted to build up the phase II as a facility at par with any facility globally. Infopark will develop the campus to tap into future emerging high growth areas like data centers, domestic services as well as renewable areas. The park when fully completed is expected to generate around 80,000 jobs in IT/ITES/BPO sector apart from the large scale of jobs expected to be created in the services sector.”

Infopark in the last two years have been growing fast and is already home to over 10,000 IT professionals working in world class companies like Wipro, Tata Csultancy Services, OPI Global, ACS, US Technologies, IBS, Arbitron, Zerone Consulting, NHR Outsourcing, SIT Mobile, Alcatel Lucent, etc. Spokes of Kochi Infopark in Koratty, Cherthala and Ambalapuzha were inaugurated along with ramp up of co-developer projects including L&T, Leela Group and Brigade.