Tenders for Keonics Software Park in Mangaluru soon: Chairman
Mangaluru: The tender process for setting up
Keonics Software Park
near
Blue Berry Hills
in
Mangaluru
will commence by the end of this month or at the beginning of next month, said Sharath Kumar Bachegowda, MLA, and also the chairman of Keonics.
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"Hopefully sometime in June, we will be able to commence the work," said Bachegowda. He was speaking on the topic - 'The rise of
Global Capability Centres
(GCC) and their importance to Mangaluru', at the 'Techwaves 2025 – Rise of the Silicon Beach of India' organised by the Vertex Managed Workspace here on Friday.
"We have set ourselves about 30 months to inaugurate it; within which we want to complete the centre and hand it over to Mangaluru.
What we did in Electronic City can be replicated in Mangaluru," he said.
Bachegowda said an ecosystem will be created to make Mangaluru the second
Electronic City of Karnataka
. "Presently, we have an idea of putting up about four lakh square feet centre in Blueberry Hill, but this could go up to 10 lakh square feet, based on the zoning regulations which are due to be changed in Mangaluru. We have been working consciously to make sure that the tender and the way we structure the whole programme is more favourable for local players," he said.
Calling Mangaluru one of the emerging cities, he said the coastal region has several engineering colleges. "We have got talent over here. Hence, we want to make sure that the talent present over here gets the opportunities," he said, promising govt support.
"The govt will support you with Internet, power, taxes and tariffs. We have got about a 3.5-acre space, where we are looking to put up a really big IT centre similar to what Bengaluru has in its IT park," he added.
Kobayashi Create India director Koki Kato and NIDEC Advanced Technology Corporation GM Takashi Miyasaka were felicitated on the occasion.
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