THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The State government on Tuesday inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Cognizant, a NASDAQ-listed, USheadquartered provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services to lease out 15 acres of land in Kochi Infopark Phase II.Industries Minister P K Kunhalikutty, Infopark CEO Gigo Joseph, IT special secretary K S Srinivas, Joseph Korah, head of Cognizant’s Kochi operations and Anand Bhushan, senior associate general counsel of Cognizant were present.Cognizant’s new campus in Infopark Phase II ,when fully completed, will have a built-up area of 1.6 million sq.ft.and a capacity to accommodate around 12,000 professionals.Planned for a campus development in various phases, Cognizant will chip in Rs 250 crore for the first phase and it will consist of a 5.5 lakh sq.ft.software development block meant to house over 4,000 professionals.Cognizant, presently, has over 1,500 professionals working from the first phase of Kochi Infopark.Speaking on the occasion, Industries minister P K Kunhalikutty said that with the recent release of the ‘Emerging Kerala’ tagline, the government has been strongly advocating that Kerala is a land of great opportunities.“With big IT names like TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Oracle, HCL, Cognizant and Capgemini setting up offices in the state, it is very obvious that Kerala is becoming a hot IT destination and an investmentfriendly state.Today, we are on the brim of the next phase of IT growth in Kerala and the government assures all support to all companies who will play a key role in the development of the state as a leading IT hub of the country,” he promised.“We are committed to grow our operations in Kochi and tapping into the world-class talent in the state of Kerala,” said R Chandrasekaran, president and managing director, Global Delivery, Cognizant.Infopark has ambitious plans to become one of the major IT Park clusters in the country.Ever since its inception in 2004, Infopark is well known among the IT/ ITES investors for its potential and is currently expanding to new locations in Cherthala and Koratty.Infopark Phase II is planned in a PPP model by inviting investments from IT companies and other infrastructure developers.
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