Friday, November 28, 2008

INFRASTRUCTURE WORK AT IT PARKS TO START

Madurai
The Hindu

Infrastructure works at the proposed IT (information technology) parks at Ilanthaikulam off Ring Road and Vadapalanji near Madurai Kamaraj University will begin on December 5.

A sum of Rs. 22.80 crore has been earmarked for establishing roads, compound walls, lamp posts, electricity transformers and drinking water facilities in the IT parks. After the State government identified two-tier cities for establishing IT parks, it entrusted the work with the Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu. The decision to start the work was taken at a high-level consultative committee meeting in which Collector P. Seetharaman and ELCOT Managing Director Santhosh Babu, among other officials, participated, a press release issued here on Thursday said.

At Ilanthaikulam, 28.91 acres of land had been earmarked for establishing a state-of-the-art IT Park in which HCL Technologies, Honeywell Technology Solutions, Satyam Computers and Sutherland Global Services, among others, are expected to set up shop. The government has entered into a 90-year lease agreement with these companies.

In Vadapalanji and Kinnimangalam villages, 245.17 acres of land have been identified in which an integrated IT complex will come up on about 50 acres with all infrastructural facilities on the lines of a Special Economic Zone (SEZ). The Corporation of Madurai will establish drinking water supply to the IT parks.

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