Technocity, Thiruvananthapuram
Technocity is a technology park an under construction integrated township in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India dedicated to electronics, software, and other information technology. South India's largest World Trade Centre is coming here with total build up area of 2.5 million sqft and World's fifth Nissan
Global Digital Hub campus also coming here. It was conceived in 2005 as the fourth phase of development of Technopark, Technocity is a complete IT City, spread across about 500 acres, 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, process control software design, engineering and computer-aided design software development, IT Enabled Services, 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. Individual phases of the project will be developed as Special Purpose Vehicles 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.
Infrastructure
Technocity provides all the infrastructure 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 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 Reliance Infocomm, Bharti Airtel, Videsh Sanchar Nigam and Asianet Dataline, through fibre optic lines in the campus.FLAG Telecom—a subsidiary of Reliance Infocomm—has landed its FALCON global cable system at Thiruvananthapuram, providing direct connectivity to the Maldives and Sri Lanka. 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 Middle East, South East Asia, Far East, Europe and North America.
Institutions
Technocity will host at least two important educational and research institutes. The Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala is a premier institution of Higher Education and Research and Development in applied Information Technology and Management. It is currently located at Technopark but has been allocated 10 acres in Technocity to develop its own campus. In addition to providing post graduate courses in Information Technology, IIITM-K is a leader in Educational Networking and in setting up web portals which benefit the community. Portals for Computational chemistry and agricultural information dissemination are among its focus areas. IIITM-K is located at present in Park Centre.The Asian School of Business 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. 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, 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 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 - Emaar Properties, a consortium of Forest City Enterprises and Sun Group, K.Raheja Corporation, Larsen and Toubro, Suzlon, Maytas Infrastructure and the Brigade Group.