Technopark – India’s first & largest IT park, It’s the worlds stunning IT park by Rediff.com, Worlds Greenest Technopolis. Came into existence in 1990, we are in our Silver Jubilee year July 2014 onwards. Park caters a direct employment for 46000 people with a total area of 795.46 acres of land (all phases inclusive) with 7.2 million sq.ft built up space completed and another 3.5 million sq.ft work in progress. Park is the single largest source of employment in Kerala with 300+ companies operational currently.
Technopark aims at:-
– developing opportunities
– provides good infrastructure facilities
– world class working environment
– high security zone at low cost
– increased youths employability quotient
– promotes entrepreneurial talent
– huge annual supply of fresh college pass outs ( high available talent pool )
– lowest rate of manpower attrition
– support with right ecosystem
– right backing from state govt of Kerala
– provides perfect harmony @ work
Inside – Outside view on Technopark
Kerala State Govt has gone a thorough research / study on the development of Technopark as an IT corridor which starts from Thonnakkal ( North) to Kolathur ( South ) on both sides of National Highway ( NH 47) , a stretch of 20 km, will be known as Technopark Campus in next 5 years to come. An IT integrated township is also planned with housing cum commercial space cum IT space. Technopark always was fortunate to have the vision towards future. Technopark has the first rural IT park set up at Kundra , Kollam on 44 acres of land with a one lakh sq.ft built up space. Thanks to all the focus, Technopark receives from the State Government, for the Parks very existence being at the capital city & quite in proximity with the state secretariat for any decisions related to Parks development to be sanctioned & executed with ease without delay.
Inside Technopark campus has a cosmopolitan culture, host around half a lakh population from varied geographies which includes both Indians and foreigners. Technopark directly caters 50,000 jobs, whereas it indirectly caters 3 times the employability. It’s a consistent revenue generator for the State and in turn largely helps to uplift the quality of life of people at Trivandrum.Technopark on its corporate social responsibility runs in preserving the mother nature, its greenery, the vegetation, natural springs & drains etc within and outside the proximity with the campus, even when concrete structures for the park keeps coming up.
Technopark, built up as an internationally acclaimed credible brand when it comes to IT / ITES investment destination. The park in its visionary is very progressive & contemporary in approach and by next 5 years looks up to have a 20 million sq.ft built up space which caters to a direct employability of 2 lakh people. Technopark, out of its total area of 795.46 acres has both SEZ and non SEZ space. SEZ space covers 40% of the total park area.Technopark caters the target audience of age group b/w 20 & 45 years and hence as a developer, the park always have a flexible, corporate style of approach with single window clearances for all the concerns addressed by existing companies within the park and with respect to the new investors who are planning to have their footstep at technopark. The Team Technopark work in sync with the needs / requirements of our clients and the team is always in frontrun to offer customized solutions to any concerns raised by our Business partners & prospective clients.
Team Technopark is a small niche organization, spearheaded by “The CEO”, registered as a charitable society under the State Govt of Kerala. Has Business Development, Engineering, Finance, Administration, Human Resource & Security Team who work as a single unit with defined objectives to make Technopark a more beautiful place to live in.
On Statistics, in Kerala, we produce 50,000 Engineering Graduates pass out along with a supplement of another 25,000 Btech Graduates from the southern part of Tamil Nadu, who aspire for an employment at Technopark. Since talent supply is never a short and is in continuation throughout the year, Corporates obviously need to focus to mould & nuture talent from academic to corporate fit. Kerala State Government has very recently released a circular stating, every plus 2 pass student will have a Diploma in Computer Applications ( DCA) qualified, which obviously relates to the far sight IT vision State has towards its built up.
Cultural Extravaganza, Sports & Awareness campaign on various socially relevant themes, Technopark always been the torch bearer. To quote an example : “the recent ongoing RiceBucketChallenge” is one such campaign initiative which currently runs at the Park from Sep 2 – 5 , 2014 for a noble cause.
The Online marketing avenues viz, our web portal , the social media platforms like our facebook page, linkedin, twitter, youtube, flickr, blog site will soon be made more responsive , aggressive and interactive in our marketing strategies to give technopark an edge in the Global platform. Parallely , we are in the process of a mobile app development which will soon hit the floor where all the half a lakh technopark employees would be on group where it works on General info sharing cum Grievance Redressal forum with complaint open and closed status view. We are planning to integrate and accommodate “Technopark Blog” as a knowledge quest platform wherein would invite all CEOs, Business Heads, HR Heads to share “the One New Idea, product, best practises in other international locations/parks/companies”, New development in IT space & together with the very recent discussion had on techno-managerial curriculum to customize on/ training for all mid-level to senior level managers/ Heads/ CEOs in connect with University of California, Santa Cruz hails from Silicon Valley.
Before going to an interim to my next write up, I would request all readers / bloggers to please go through & share your views on Technopark Corporate video at Youtube , where it’s an ongoing pride for all of us which includes the State Govt, Technopark – the developer and all our IT investors – who are our stakeholders / brand ambassadors and above all our trust.Ought to be and going to be IT investors dream destination @ Gods own country, Kerala – The Technopark, Trivandrum, where the future lives…
