IT PARKS AT B'LORE, MYSORE, DHARWAD, SHIMOGA & M'LORE

Bangalore
DNA

The State government has decided to develop five more Information Technology Parks (ITPs) at Bangalore, Mysore, Shimoga, Hubli-Dharwad and Mysore under the public private partnership (PPP) model.

The state-owned Karnataka Electronics Development Corporation (KEONICS) would be the nodal agency and land would be provided by the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB) for establishing the projects that would be launched before December 15.

Chief minister B S Yeddyurappa would lay the foundation stone for work on the Shimoga ITP on November 1. It would come up in an area spread over 25 acres.

Similarly work on the four other ITPs would be launched during November and December. Each ITP outside Bangalore is estimated to cost between Rs 20 crore to Rs 25 crore, IT and BT minister Kattasubramanya Naidu said.

Hubli and Mangalore already have an ITP and new ones had been planned to meet the future demands, he added.