Kollam IT park to be notified as SEZ

The IT park proposed at Kollam will soon be notified as a special economic zone, Kerala IT department officials said here. The project implementation board of Technopark has approved the master plan for development of the Kollam IT park, which is one of the smaller parks being developed as part of the IT department���s strategy to broad base the IT/ITES sectors in the state in a hub-and-spokes model.

The state government has allotted a 40-acre plot for the park at Kundara, and tendering for infrastructure development works for the project are under way.

State IT secretary Ajay Kumar said the conceptual design for a modern IT building, measuring 5 lakh sq ft of built-up space incorporating the green building concept had already been approved by the project implementation board.

Technopark CEO Mervin Alexander said the first phase of the park building with a built-up space of one lakh sq ft was expected to be ready for occupation by August 2010. Besides this, developed plots of varying sizes will be offered on lease basis to interested co-developers. When completed, the park is expected to provide direct employment to about 8,000 IT professionals.