Technocity, Thiruvananthapuram
| Joint Sector | |
| Industry | Information Technology Business Park |
| Genre | Infrastructure Service Provider |
| Headquarters | Thiruvananthapuram, India |
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Key people
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M Vasudevan, Senior Business Development Manager |
| Owner | Government of Kerala |
Technocity is a technology park and integrated township in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India dedicated to electronics, software, and other Information Technology (IT) ventures. It is 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 embedded software development, enterprise resource planning (ERP), process control software design, engineering and computer-aided design software development, IT Enabled Services (ITES), process re-engineering, animation and e-business. The firms will include domestic companies as well as subsidiaries of multi-national organisations.
Technocity is being jointly developed by the Government of Kerala 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.
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