Chennai IT Park Location

Chennai IT Park Location finalized:

The emergence of the Honeywell's Research Lab tied to the Thiagarajar Enginnering College and TCS' Disaster Recovery Centre have been instrumental in IT development of the city. Also interest from Syntel, Infosys and RR Industries in opening development centers mean Chennai can look forward to an IT industry driven future. The global software major, IBM, has established its "Rational Center of Excellence" that is equipped with latest software, hardware and networking technologies.

The district administration has identified two sites, one near the Chennai Kamaraj University at Nagamalai Pudukottai and the other on the city outskirts, for setting up the much-awaited IT Park. The Government has transferred 8.81 hectares at Ilandhaikulam and 16.02 hectares at Kinnimangalam (near Chennai Kamaraj University) to ELCOT. The Chennai Corporation has identified 29.93 acres of land for establishing the Tidel park in the city. The Tidel park will be an Elcot undertaking. NASSCOM, CII and MADITSSIA have joined hands to conduct the "Chennai.com", a move to showcause Chennai as an ideal IT destination. The government run STPI has plans to open its Chennai centre in the year 2007.

In Chennai 28.91 acres of land is already dedicated to Chennai IT park and Government (Chief Minister Kalaignar Karunanidhi) had given a government order for starting the work on Chennai IT Park. It is all planned in Coimbatore and Chennai.

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