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Govt clears three SEZ proposals
New Delhi, June 8, DHNS:

The Centre, on Tuesday, approved three fresh SEZ proposals including one in Karnataka in the booming Information Technology (IT) sector.

The Board of Approval (BOA)—the single window clearing body for SEZ—approved the proposal of Larsen and Toubro Limited (L&T) to set up a SEZ in the IT and IT Enabled Services (ITeS) sector at Mysore.

The proposed L&T SEZ project, which has already got sanction of the Karnataka government, will be set up at an industrial area in Hebbal—Hootagally zone in Mysore. The other two fresh SEZ proposals cleared relate to IT/ITES and free trade ware housing sectors.

Further, in-principle approvals were granted to three SEZ projects in sectors like pharmaceuticals, multi product and aluminum. In a bid to expedite construction of SEZ projects the BOA allowed promotes of seven SEZs including one from Karnataka to rope in co-developers. The BOA allowed KIADB to rope in Leela Lace Holdings Private Limited for IT/ITES SEZ project near Mangalore.
DHNS (http://www.deccanherald.com/content/74182/govt-clears-three-sez-proposals.html)

L&T to invest 615 crore to set up SEZ in Mysore

Among those that received formal approval are the 10.12-hectare IT/ITeS SEZ in Kozhikode by the Kerala State Information Technology Infrastructure Ltd with a proposed investment of Rs 501 crore, and a 10-hectare IT/ITeS SEZ by Larsen & Toubro at KIADB Industrial Area, in Mysore with an investment of Rs 615 crore.
The Hindu -Businessline (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2010/06/09/stories/2010060952860400.htm)

K'taka acts on bringing GIM promises to life
BS Reporter / Chennai/ Bangalore June 26, 2010, 0:24 IST

Foundation for Nestle noodle plant on July 2.

The Karnataka government has set the ball rolling for fructification of MoUs signed at the recently concluded global investors’ meet (GIM), where it attracted investment proposals worth close to Rs 5 lakh crore. The implementation of these projects is commencing from the first week of July itself. The GIM concluded on June 4.


V P Baligar, principal secretary, department of industries and commerce said, the foundation stone for the first GIM approved project will be laid on July 2, 2010. The chief minister B S Yeddyurappa will be laying the foundation stone for the new Maggi noodles manufacturing plant of Nestle India Ltd at Nanjangud in Mysore district. The CMD of Nestle will be present on the occasion.

Similarly, foundation stone for special economic zone for IT industry being developed by Gopalan Enterprises India Pvt Ltd in Mysore would be laid on July 2. The third project to take shape is a textile manufacturing unit in Bijapur district, for which the chief minister will lay foundation in the third or fourth week of July.

“We have to keep the pressure and heat on our bureaucrats. Only then our departments will deliver. Every month our chief minister or the concerned ministers will kick off new projects approved at the GIM. Our district administrations have been energised to take forward the projects approved,” Baligar told members of Bangalore Chamber of Industries and Commerce (BCIC) at the 33rd annual general meeting of BCIC, here on Friday.

The state has constituted a high level committee headed by the chief minister to review the projects every three months and every month, chief secretary, S V Ranganath will review the progress. The chief minister has written letters to all the departments and district administrations to see that there shall not be even one day’s delay in implementing the MoUs signed at GIM, Baligar said.

“Every department in the state government is ready to help the investors and see that there will not be red tape any more, but there will be red carpet for investors in the state,” he added.

Baligar said the state government has identified and notified 1,000 acres land near in Tumkur district to develop a Japanese village.

He said Karnataka is already a home for a large number of Japanese companies. Bangalore happens to be the second largest city in the country to have more Japanese establishments next only to National Capital Region (NCR).

Baligar said in addition to existing Japanese firms in Bangalore, the state government has approved the investment proposals of three more firms from Japan during the recently concluded Global Investors’ Meet on June 3 and 4. They are Tokai Rubber Auto Parts, Amada Pvt Ltd and Toyota Logistics India Ltd, which will make a combined investment of over Rs 200 crore in the state.
BS (http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/k%5Ctaka-actsbringing-gim-promises-to-life/399423/)

MANGALORE SEZ 1 & 2 Phase

Proposed extent of land of Mangalore SEZ is 3985 acres for a general purpose multi-product SEZ. Currently Notified as sector specific (Petrochemicals and Petroleum) SEZ, it is proposed to upgrade the same to multi-product SEZ once the necessary additional land is in possession.

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L&T bags ONGC project worth Rs 2000 crore

Monday, March 15, 2010,11:24 [IST]

Mumbai, Mar 15: Engineering and construction major, Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T) has bagged a Rs 2035 crore-worth project from ONGC Mangalore Petrochemicals Ltd (OMPL).

Under this project, L&T will be setting up an Aromatics Complex at the Mangalore SEZ and it involves nine process units including Naphtha Hydro-Treating unit, Continuous Catalytic Regeneration and Platforming unit, PAREX Unit, ISOMAR unit.

In a statement released on Monday, Mar 15, L&T informed that the project shall be executed as an EPC contract, and is expected to be ready for commissioning by Dec 2012.


Source (http://news.oneindia.in/2010/03/15/l-t-bags-ongc-project-worth-rs-2000-crore.html)

Mangalore SEZ allocates Rs 4.5k-cr for petcoke project
OIFC: May 18, 2010
Mangalore Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is exploring an option of converting Petroleum coke (petcoke) into energy and high-value chemicals for its potential consumers, especially petroleum-based industries.

The project envisages an investment of Rs 4,000-4,500 crore. Global majors including Shell and Linde Gas have already expressed their desire for their involvement in the project.

Mangalore SEZ is being developed jointly by ONGC’s arm Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals (MRPL), Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS) and the Karnataka government.

According to industry sources "Petcoke, which is a residue of the refinery, will be used to produce power and high value chemicals like ammonia, syngas, nitrogen, argon, sulphuric acid, methanol and acetic acid. MRPL has agreed to supply 1 million tonne of petcoke annually to Mangalore SEZ for this energy conversion effort. In India as many as 30 million tonnes of petcoke is likely to be available in the years to come. Internationally, the petcoke technology through gasification is getting established. A 200-mw of power project based on integrated gas combined cycle technology will be set up and the power to be supplied within the Mangalore SEZ."

In the gasification process, the petcoke would also consume fly ash from the nearby thermal power plant.
Source (http://www.oifc.in/Article/Mangalore-SEZ-allocates-Rs-45k-cr-for-petcoke-project)

Mangalore SEZ attracts companies

Many companies from the manufacturing and service sectors have shown interest in setting up their units in the Mangalore SEZ. The Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) is the anchor investor in the Mangalore SEZ project. MRPL has envisaged projects such as an LNG terminal, C2-C3 separation units, and aromatic and olefin complexes in the petrochemical component of the SEZ.

Pharmaceutical and shipbuilding companies in the manufacturing sector, and various service sector companies have shown interest in setting up their units in general-purpose multi-product component of SEZ, according to news reports.

By INRnews Correspondent (http://www.inrnews.com/realestateproperty/mangalore_sez_attracts_compani.html)

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QuEST launches aerospace SEZ in Belgaum

More than 7,000 jobs for local talent forecast.

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The Civil Aviation Minister, Mr Praful Patel, and the Karnataka Chief Minister, Mr B.S. Yeddyurappa, at the inauguration of QuEST Global’s special economic zone near Belgaum on Saturday. — Vijaykumar Patil

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Bangalore, Nov. 15 A 300-acre area promoted by Quest Global, near Belgaum in rural north Karnataka, has become the country’s first aerospace SEZ (special economic zone).

The Belgaum SEZ will churn out aerospace-related business worth around Rs 2,500 crore in 10 years and could be the next big bet in this sector outside Bangalore, said Mr Aravind Melligeri, Co-Founder and Chairman of Quest, the aerospace engineering and manufacturing company based in Bangalore.

The SEZ has taken wings on land acquired by Quest and now hosts a couple of its subsidiaries and two other companies. It was started with an initial investment of Rs 150 crore in collaboration with North American copter major Textron.

The Karnataka Government’s 1,000-acre SEZ proposal near Bangalore is before the Commerce Ministry, while Andhra Pradesh also has planned an MRO-related SEZ.
7,000 LOCAL JOBS

“We (expect) the SEZ to create more than 7,000 jobs for local talent and infuse $500 million (in)to the economy in ten years,” Mr Melligeri said at the formal launch of the SEZ in the presence of the Civil Aviation Minister, Mr Praful Patel, and the Chief Minister, Mr B.S. Yeddyurappa, in Belgaum on Saturday.

Bangalore currently dominates the country’s aerospace sector, with the public sector behemoth Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) alone generating Rs 10,200 crore in revenue or nearly half of this business. The Indian industry focusses on product development, airframe structure design and analysis, engineering, production of precision components, aircraft parts and sub-assemblies.

NEW VENTURES

Mr Melligeri said Belgaum, with its hundreds of foundries and low-cost engineering talent, was just beginning to happen. Being well-connected with Bangalore, Hyderabad, and coastal Mumbai and Goa, it could be the next destination after the southern IT city.

Quest already is in the supply chain for Airbus A80 and A350 that is due in 2013; provides landing gear shackles for Boeing 777, 787 and 737 aircraft programmes through its partner, Magellan — a Boeing and Airbus supplier. EADS, Rolls-Royce, GE Aviation, Toshiba and UTC are among its clients.

On Saturday, Quest signed a significant contract with Airbus vendor SABCA of Belgium to supply flap track mechanism metallic parts from out of the SEZ for the prestigious A350 programme. “The contract is an extension of the A380 work. Its value could be $100 million (around Rs 500 crore) over ten years,” Mr Melligeri said.

Quest had a manufacturing joint venture at the SEZ called Aerospace Processing India, with Magellan Aerospace. It was exploring another facility with Magellan and focussed on aero-engines.

French forgings company Farinia Geie was looking at an aerospace forging facility. The aero-engine facility could touch a revenue of $50 million (around Rs 250 crore) in the fifth year, Mr Melligeri, who started the company in 1997 with Mr Ajith Prabhu, said.

Magellan’s Vice-President, Mr Konrad Hahnelt, said, “The location of the SEZ has increased our operations efficiency.” SABCA’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr Daniel Blondeel, said, “The SEZ can take on start-to-finish projects and offers many advantages in the manufacturing space.” Mr Melligeri said the SEZ would meet the offset obligations of Airbus and Boeing, which have supplied commercial aircraft to domestic airlines.
The Hindu Businessline (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2009/11/16/stories/2009111650501300.htm)

QuEST, Indo Schottle sign MoU
Bangalore, June 3, dhns:

Global aerospace engineering and manufacturing major, QuEST Global on Thursday signed a MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) with Indo Schottle to set up a new dedicated facility in the QuEST Global SEZ , Belgaum to manufacture and export engine parts and hydraulic components.

Indo Schottle, primarily an automotive major, will be investing Rs 20 crore initially in Quest Global SEZ to mark its entry into the aerospace manufacturing sector. Aravind Melligeri, chairman and co-founder, QuEST Global, said, “By signing of this MoU, we will build an ecosystem of qualified suppliers to meet supply chain needs for the global aerospace OEM's and Tier-1's.”
DHNS (http://www.deccanherald.com/content/73269/quest-indo-schottle-sign-mou.html)

Saturday, June 05, 2010 3:14:59 PM (IST)

First phase of MSEZ set for commissioning by 2011 or early 2012

by Gabriel Vaz
Daijiworld Media Network

Bangalore, Jun 5: Amid the hype, hoopla and glitter of the just concluded Global Investors’ Meet held at the Bangalore Palace Grounds, which proved a huge success for the B S Yeddyrappa regime, was a stall from coastal Mangalore that drew curious visitors, including the chief minister, ministers and other top dignitaries.

A stall at GIM from the coastal region, which drew a virtual blank in the unprecedented Rs 4 lakh core investment proposals received by the Yeddyurappa regime? Yes, the stall was from the Mangalore SEZ (special economic zone) Ltd. And, for a change, there were no protests or even uncomfortable questions regarding land acquisition that must have become a rather routine affair for the MSEZ executives.

MSEZ, the special purpose vehicle incorporated in February 2006 with Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB), Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS), Kanara Chambers of Commerce & Industry (KCCI) and others as the promoters, is aimed at developing multi-product enterprises.

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"The first phase notified in 2007 for sector-specific petroleum and petrochemical investments is well on its way of implementation,” MSEZ Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer A G Pai told Daijiworld on the sidelines of GIM. ``There is absolutely no problem with regard to land or any other issues. If everything goes as per schedule, the first phase should be commissioned by the end of 2011 or early 2012,” he said.

"Marketing for the first phase was quite comfortable,” he said explaining that as much as 1,453 acres were contiguous and ideally suitable out of the 1,600 acres of land acquired. Except 500 acres, the entire land in the phase one project has been already allotted.

"The comprehensive rehabilitation works that we undertook in 300 acres of land have won us many admirers and appreciation,” he says.

Pai explained that the average land cost per acre worked out to Rs 30 lakh per acre with the rate of compensation ranging from Rs 8 to 8.5 lakh per acre. The rate of compensation, according to Pai, in the second phase for the 2,000 acres proposed was even higher at Rs 11.5 to Rs 12 lakh per acre of dry and wet categories. ``We don’t anticipate any problems as farmers have voluntarily come forward to offer their lands due to the attractive prices and rehabilitation package,” he explained.

The total cost of the entire phase one would be around Rs 35,000 to Rs 37,000 crore.

Prominent projects coming up in the first phase include ONGC’s Aromatic Complex at an estimated investment of Rs 6,000 crore in 442 acres, Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Ltd (ISPRL) in collaboration with a South Korean company, SKEC, for storing crude in rocky cavern conditions at a cost of Rs 1,000 crore in 82 acres and Mangalore Refineries and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL), a subsidiary of ONGC, expansion project in 300 acres at a cost of Rs 15,500 crore from the present 12 to 15 million metric tonnes per annum (mmtpa).

While construction work on the Aromatic Complex is underway and the project is set for commissioning in 2012, the ISPRL is expected to be ready for operations by 2013. The MRPL expansion work will begin commercial operations by the end of next year, Pai said.

Excellent connectivity to domestic and international markets with linkages to three national highways and access to a large network of state highways in the hinterland, an international airport barely within 5 kms distances with air connectivity to Indian and Gulf countries, railway accessibility to Southern Railway within 20 kms with Konkan Railway running adjacent and the all-weather New Mangalore Port hardly 8 kms away connected to a dedicated pipeline-cum-road corridor are the strong features of MSEZ, which are not available in any other SEZ, claims Pai.

The evaluation work on product-specific companies for phase two of MSEZ was presently underway. ``We expect to finalise the entire process in the next three months,” he said disclosing that as many as 75 to 80 companies have already evinced interest.

Petrochemicals, Apparels Silk and Synthetic Yarn Based Apparels, Engineering Industry, Food Processing, Drugs and Pharmaceuticals, IT/ITES Software Park, Gems & Jewllery, R & D, Biotech, Financial Services, Logistics and Warehousing were among the many sectors that have tremendous scope in MSEZ, explained Ramachanra Bhandarkar K, public relations officer, pointing out that logistical cost advantage of MSEZ made it more economically viable proposition over major competitors in Gulf and Gujarat to reach the far-east Asian markets.
Daijiworld (http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=78647&n_tit=First+Phase+of+MSEZ+Set+for+Commissioning+by+2011+or+Early+2012)

KEONICS to develop six IT parks

Nagesh Prabhu

Bangalore: The Karnataka State Electronics Development Corporation (KEONICS), the State's nodal implementing agency, has taken up execution of six Information Technology (IT) parks, including Information Technology Investment Region, in the State, for an investment of over Rs. 1,300 crore.

KEONICS has been assigned to execute the IT park in Mysore with an investment of Rs. 180 crore and it would be developed on the public private partnership model. The project work would come up at the Hebbal Industrial Area on five acres of land. Works would begin next month and would be completed in a year, officials in KEONICS told The Hindu.

The IT park in Mangalore on 3.5 acres of land will come up at a cost of Rs. 100 crore also on PPP model. The project will come up near A.J. Hospital and the work would begin next month. All works are expected to be completed in a year. In both the IT parks, KEONICS would grant land to companies for a 30-year lease period. In Gulbarga, a park will come up on 50,000 sq.ft of built-up area in the first phase. It would be developed near the Circuit Bench of the Karnataka High Court at a cost of Rs. 9.98 crore. Work on the project would be completed by August 2011. Two other IT parks (non-SEZ and SEZ) would come on 41 acres of land on the Bhadravathi-Shimoga National Highway near Machenahalli village. The estimated cost of both parks would be Rs. 18.53 crore. IT park (non-SEZ) would cost Rs. 12.73 crore on 67,599 sq.ft built-up area, and the work would be completed next April.

An IT (SEZ) park will come up adjacent to IT non-SEZ on 25 acres of land and a private firm, Cambridge Solutions, has shown interest to invest Rs. 80 crore for developing it on six acres of land. The rest of the land would be developed by roping in private parties, officials said. KEONICS has to obtain necessary statutory approvals, prepare tender documents, and facilitate appointment of contractors for all the IT parks. After completion, space would be sold to IT companies engaged in IT, ITeS and hardware sectors and specifically catering to the domestic market. Firms, either small or medium can take an entire floor or sub-divide it depending upon their interests, officials said.
The Hindu (http://www.hindu.com/2010/06/26/stories/2010062665240800.htm)

Educational Zones mooted
Staff Reporter

After special economic zones for industries, the Karnataka Government now wants to establish Special Educational Zones (SEZ) to encourage private sector to start schools and colleges.

Disclosing this during a session on “Higher education and skill development opportunities in Karnataka” at Global Investors Meet-2010 in Bangalore on Friday, M. Madan Gopal, Principal Secretary, Higher Education, said the Government was keen to set up special educational zones.

The Hindu (http://beta.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article469298.ece)

He said no approvals for steel capacities would be given to those who do not have a mining lease. “Clearances for 8 to 10 projects had been deferred because we wanted to verify the investors' capacity to invest in the proposed projects,” he added. Among the projects cleared at the meeting were investments by Coca Cola for a unit in Yadgir district (Rs. 250 crore), a proposal by Rajesh Exports for a gems and jewellery park near Devanahalli (Rs. 460 crore), a proposal by Etco denim to establish a spinning, weaving, dyeing and fabric finishing unit in Bijapur district (Rs. 316 crore), a proposal by the Manipal Group to establish a multidisciplinary education campus near Doddaballapur (Rs. 650 crore), a proposal by the Marg Group to establish a knowledge hub in Dharwad district (Rs. 980 crore), and a proposal by the Sagar Group to establish a tertiary education centre in Chickballapur (Rs. 96 crore).

The Hindu (http://www.hindu.com/2010/06/20/stories/2010062061830400.htm)

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CHIEF MINISTER ARRIVES IN CITY

Mysore, July 2 (MRS&RK)- Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa arrived in city this afternoon on a brief visit.

The Chief Minister, who arrived in a special aircraft in Mandakalli Airport from Haveri at 1.40 pm, proceeded to Nanjangud. He will visit Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Shalaa at 2 pm.

Yeddyurappa will lay foundation stone for the new plant of Nestle India Limited at Nanjangud Industrial Area at 2.30 pm.

The Chief Minister will return to city to launch IT, ITES & SEZ project of Gopalan Enterprises at 4 pm at Koorgalli Industrial Area.

The Chief Minister will return to Bangalore at 5.30 pm by special flight.

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Foundation stone laid for E-Park

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The Rs. 180-crore project is expected to generate 5,000 jobs

Work on electronics park to commence immediately

The park is coming up on 28 acres of land

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MYSORE: Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa on Friday laid the foundation stone for an E-Park at Koorgalli near Mysore, which has a projected investment of Rs. 180 crore.

This is expected to create job opportunities for 5,000 people and the work on the project will commence immediately. Considered a Special Economic Zone (SEZ), the project is an initiative of Gopalan Enterprises. It received an endorsement from the Government within a month of the completion of the Global Investors Meet (GIM) and was concretised within a week of securing clearance.

Speaking on the occasion, the Chief Minister said the Government was according top priority to promote industries and encourage investment in Mysore and would leave no stone unturned for the city's comprehensive development. Mr. Yeddyurappa said Mysore could receive around Rs. 3,500 crore by way of investment as a result of the GIM.

Future prospects

Mr. Yeddyurappa said the State could get a commitment of nearly Rs. 4 lakh crore that could help provide jobs to 8 lakh youths in the State. The new electronic park in Mysore, when commissioned, will have an export target of Rs. 1,000 crore.

Once the projected investments flow into Mysore, it would generate 15,000 more jobs and spur the local economy, Mr. Yeddyurappa added. He said the Government was rooted to its Vision 2020 objectives and would lay emphasis on the industrialisation and economic development of the State.

The Gopalan E-Park will be established on a 28-acre land and will have two million sq ft area of which 5 lakh sq ft will be dedicated for software.

Directives to officials

Mr. Yeddyurappa, sensing the growing public petulance at unbridled land acquisition, directed officials to acquire land only to the extent that was necessary.

He said sentiments of the local community should be respected and adequate land left for the community, village and its institutions. “What is a village bereft of people,” asked the Chief Minister, and added: “We need village, we need people and we need industries.”

The Chief Minister's directives to the officials came following an appeal by the Chamundeshwari Assembly Constituency MLA Satyanarayana who said there was no land for developing public institutions be it school or any other Government offices, some of which function from rented premises. Minister for Large and Medium Industries Murugesh Nirani, Director of Gopalan Enterprises C. Gopalan and other officials were present.
The Hindu (http://www.hindu.com/2010/07/03/stories/2010070361810300.htm)

48-acre textile park to provide 8,000

TNN, Jul 3, 2010, 10.56pm IST

BANGALORE: Union textile minister Dayanidhi Maran on Saturday inaugurated the Rs 250-crore Doddaballapur Integrated Textile Park (DITPL), expected to become one of the country's important powerloom clusters.

The ministry's PPP (public private partnership) initiative under the Scheme for Integrated Textile Parks (SITP) and the state government's textile policy __ Suvarna Vastra Neethi __ will eventually provide employment to 8,000 people. The park, spread across 48 acres, will ensure processing and pre-weaving facilities.

It will house 75 weaving units with 600 looms and eight apparel factories with 500 sewing machines owned and operated by members of the units. Around 41 units are expected to be operational by this year-end. Maran said modernizing technology and production processes are the key to staying competitive in the global market.

"As the garment industry imports huge quantity of fabric, it presents an opportunity to Doddaballapur Park for establishing sustained market linkages with export-oriented local garment industry," he said.

TRAINING CENTRE

The Centre has rolled out a new initiative for skill development to train 30 lakh workers over five years with an outlay of Rs 2,200 crore. The Union textile minister has approved Rs 20 crore to set up a skill development centre in Karnataka. It is also in the process of setting up two automatic reeling machine units in Karnataka and one in Tamil Nadu over the next two years.
TOI (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/48-acre-textile-park-to-provide-8000/articleshow/6125680.cms)

Thiru Dayanidhi Maran Inaugurates Dodballapur Integrated Textile Park
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Modernising the technology and production process is the key requirements for remaining competitive in the globalised textile industry. This was stated by Thiru Dayanidhi Maran while inaugurating Dodballapur Integrated Textile Park at Benguluru today. The Minister said the Park will serve as a benchmark for others in this respect. Establishment of modern weaving units for this Park will serve as a model for power loom sector entrepreneurs in Doddaballapur cluster in particular and in Karnataka in general.

The Park set up in an area of 48 acres at a cost of Rs. 85 crores and will attract an investment of Rs.200 crore and annually produce textile products worth Rs. 350 crore, and more importantly, will provide employment to 4000 people said Thiru Maran. Seven units out of envisaged 84 units of weaving, sizing and warping are operational as of now. With the revcovery of the economy and improvement in the investment climate, Thiru Maran expected more units to become operational soon.

Thiru Maran said that in August, 2005, the Government came out with the Scheme for Integrated Textile Park (SITP) to supplement the efforts of the industry by providing state of the art infrastructure facilities in textile growth centres. Forty Parks have been sanctioned throughout the country and Dodballapur is one such Park. 21 Parks, out of these 40, are operational and it is expected that the remaining Parks will also commence production shortly. On completion, all these Parks are expected to have an investment of Rs. 20,000 crore and provide employment to 5 lakh people. Thiru Maran further stated that there has been a huge demand for these Parks and the Government is actively considering setting up of a few more Parks shortly.

Thiru Maran said that his Ministry had taken several measures to assist the Textile Industry, including small scale, power loom and handloom sectors. Giving details of the initiatives, Thiru Maran said that the Textile Ministry has recently released subsidy of Rs. 912 crore to 7383 beneficiaries within 3 working days under the Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme (TUFS). A draft National Fibre Policy with an objective to provide level playing field for harmonious growth of different textile sectors has been placed recently in the public domain for their comments. The long-standing demand of the silk industry for inclusion of sericulture and allied activities within the Central Government’ Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) for various benefits at par with Agriculture Industry has been announced. Central Silk Board, Bengalure in association with Indian Space Research Organisation intends to take up Remote Sensing Imagery rogramme in eight sericulture districts to assess mulberry acreage in the country, Thiru Maran added.

Presiding over the function Dr.M. Veerappa Moily, Minister for Law and Justice said that there is a need for a special package to solve the problems faced by handloom and powerloom weavers from Doddaballapur. He said that the employment opportunities in the textile industry is huge and a similar Park can be set up in the North Karnataka region. He expressed gratitude to Thiru Maran for announcing that the Second Skill Development Centre would be set up in Chikballapur at a cost of Rs20 cr. He said that it would train 5000 persons per annum in apparel technology.

Shri Goolihatti Shekar, Minister for Textiles, Youth Services & Sports, Government of Karnataka said Employment opportunities in the textile industry would increase as a result of setting up of this Park. Shri Murugesh R Nirani, Minister for Large and Medium Industries, Government of Karnataka said said the Integrated Park gives the feeling of being in a foreign locale. He suggested that similar pilot projects should be launched in different parts of the state.
PIB (http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=63013)

QuEST Global Manufacturing Becomes the 1st Indian Private Sector Player to Work Directly with Airbus for the Manufacture of Aerostructure Parts

Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Tuesday, July 20, 2010 -- (Business Wire India)
The global aerospace engineering & manufacturing major, QuEST Global announced today that it has become the first Indian private sector player to manufacture parts directly to Airbus under the long term agreement.

This distinction comes after a stringent selection process by distinguished Airbus and EADS sourcing and manufacturing organizations. This is a first step into manufacturing relationship with Airbus on existing program with a view to expand engagement to many other sourcing opportunities to leverage QuEST Global’s capabilities.

QuEST Global has been recognized as a quality supplier to the aerospace industry through the AS 9100 certification received for both engineering services and manufacturing practices. QuEST Global has set up an integrated manufacturing facility ranging from Machining, sheet metal processing, assembly and special processing (thro joint venture with Magellan Aerospace). The facility is approved by Airbus apart from other certifications like NADCAP.

QuEST Global becomes the only private sector company in India to sign Engineering Services and Manufacturing agreements. Under these agreements, QuEST Global will support various current programs in Manufacturing as well as current and upcoming programs in Design. QuEST Global has also set up an aerospace supply chain eco-system in its Special Economic Zone (SEZ) which is spread over 262 acres in Belgaum, North Karnataka, India. This will be highly beneficial to Airbus from a point of view of being able to source fully finished aerospace components and sub assemblies from India apart from delivering offset obligations.

“This win highlights the strength and strategic importance of QuEST Global’s manufacturing and SEZ capabilities. We are honored by the confidence that Airbus has shown in QuEST Global and we are eager and well prepared to take on this engagement. QuEST Global’s Engineering along with Manufacturing from our Belgaum SEZ will provide the ideal ‘end to end solution’ to Airbus.” said Aravind Melligeri, Chairman & Co-founder, QuEST Global.

Business Wire India (http://www.businesswireindia.com/PressRelease.asp?b2mid=23283)

http://www.kumbangalore.com/sez_karnataka.aspx

British firm expanding back office unit in Karnataka town
2010-07-27 10:30:00


British business process outsourcing (BPO) firm Xchanging Plc is expanding its back office operations to a 2,000 seat facility at Shimoga in central Karnataka, a company official has said.

'We will sign an agreement with the state government in the presence of British Prime Minister David Cameron and Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa Wednesday here to set the 2,000-seat processing centre at Shimoga,' Xchanging India chief financial officer Sri Krishna told IANS.

Cameron will be in Bangalore with a high-profile delegation on his maiden official visit to India after he assumed office in May to visit IT bellwether Infosys Technologies and defence behemoth Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) in the city.
The centre will be located on a six-acre land in the new special economic zone (SEZ) at Shimoga, the home town of Yeddyurappa and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s state unit president K.S. Eshwarappa.

'We will be the first multinational to set up such a green technology based centre in a tier-three location to grow our presence in the Indian sub-continent,' Krishna said, but did not disclose the proposed investment in the new facility.

The London-based BPO firm has been operating at Shimoga, about 270 km from this tech hub, from rented premises since 2008, employing about 300 youngsters from the region.

Xchanging founder and chief executive David Andrews will also be present on the occasion with his Indian subsidiary managing director Nimesh Soni.

As one of the leading business processors, the 750 million pound back office firm also operates from Bangalore, Chennai and Gurgaon in the National Capital Region.

'We provide non-voice based back office services spanning procurement, accounting, human resources and technology across industry verticals, including banking, insurance, manufacturing, retail and real estate,' Krishna said.

Combining functional expertise with domain knowledge, the company also offers industry-specific outcomes to its clients across 42 countries through an 8,000-strong workforce.

sify (http://sify.com/finance/british-firm-expanding-back-office-unit-in-karnataka-town-news-default-kh1k4bffgbf.html)

Opto Circuits set to enhance capacity in Mysore, Malaysia
Wednesday, Jul 07, 2010
Plans to move manufacturing out of Bangalore.

P.T. Jyothi Datta

Recently in Singapore

Medical devices company Opto Circuits is set to increase its manufacturing capacity both in India and overseas.

The Bangalore-based company will invest Rs 150-200 crore in its new facility at the special economic zone in Nanjangud, Mysore, the Opto Chairman, Mr Vinod Ramnani, told media in Singapore.

The Rs 1,077-crore company has nine manufacturing facilities, including five in Bangalore.But Opto expects to move its manufacturing out of Bangalore to its new SEZ in Mysore, he said, adding that it was likely to happen by this fiscal.

Products

Opto makes invasive products such as stents, implants and catheters and non-invasive products such as patient monitors, among other things and the new plant will make both categories of products, Mr Ramnani said, on a trip organised by Opto.

Opto and its German subsidiary, Eurocor, were participating in the ‘Sixth Asian Interventional Cardiovascular Therapeutics 2010' in Singapore.

Opto is also setting up a plant in Malaysia, with an investment of between $8 million and $10 million (an estimated Rs 45 crore).

The plant should be ready in three months and gives Opto a 10-year tax break.

“We need our own base to save 30-40 per cent of the cost of products”, he said.

The Malaysian set-up will be a back-up base to cater to a growing overseas market, he said.

The Malaysia plant will have about 70-80 people. The company is an OEM supplier and is not closed to contract manufacturing, Mr Ramnani said.

Acquistions

The company has acquired eight businesses in its 18 years of existence, including Germany's Eurocor (that designs and develops cardiac stents) in 2006. And more recently, it acquired N.S. Remedies, also makers of cardiac stents, this year. Acquisitions are a faster way of growth, Mr Ramnani said, as good technologies can be bought in the healthcare space.

Developing one's own technologies requires large funds and the outcome of this research is uncertain, he added.

Opto will look at opportunities that give it good access to hospitals, intellectual property and technology that takes it faster to the market place, he said. Globally, medical devices are an estimated $16 billion market.
The Hindu Businessline (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2010/07/07/stories/2010070752670300.htm)

Sleepy Shimoga to go global
Bangalore:July 28, DHNS:

Shimoga has become the first Tier III city in the State to have a multinational BPO centre. The UK-based Xchanging, a global processor, on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding with Karnataka State Electronics Development Corporation Limited (KEONICS) to establish a special economic zone in Shimoga.

David Andrews, CEO of Xchanging and Hari Kumar Jha, MD of KEONICS, signed the MoU in the presence of Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa and IT minister Katta Subramanya Naidu. Andrews was among the delegation which accompanied British Prime Minister David Cameron on his visit to India. Six acres of land developed by Keonics has been handed over to the Xchanging for the SEZ.

Xchanging provides procurement, accounting, human resources and technology services. The services include banking, insurance, manufacturing, retail and real estate. It has already set up its global processing hubs in Bangalore, Gurgaon and Chennai. The first phase of the centre will be operational in next 10 months.

Nimish Soni, Managing Director (India) of Xchanging said the company had set up a finishing school to train graduates on skills required for the BPO. “We will be hiring local graduates and have already tied up with some colleges to hire fresh graduates”, he said.
British Prime Minister David Cameron sent his greeting to the business unit in Shimoga. “My government is keen to lay the foundations of an enhanced relationship between Britain and India for the decades to come, and Xchanging has demonstrated here in India what can be achieved by British companies when successfully opening up new markets around the world”, he said.

IT minister Katta Subramanya Naidu said the government will assist the company to expand its operation in Shimoga. Chief Minister Yeddyurappa thanked the company for choosing a Tier III city to invest.

“The MoU with the UK based company has shown that smaller cities also have potential to attract investments. The government will develop the Tier II and Tier III cities so that more investment is attracted,” he said.


DHNS (http://www.deccanherald.com/content/84508/sleepy-shimoga-go-global.html)

Smaller cities lucrative destinations for IT, BPO firms

4 Aug 2010, 1812 hrs IST,PTI

NEW DELHI: Driven by lower operating costs and incentives in the form of tax holidays and subsidies by state government, smaller cities like Jaipur, Chandigarh and Mysore have emerged as lucrative destinations for IT and BPO firms.

According to the Q2 report by Everest Group on global sourcing, IT and BPO companies are looking at tier II locations in the country to support global delivery.

Locations such as Jaipur, Chandigarh, Mysore and Nagpur are being increasingly leveraged by service providers to expand their offshore operations, it added.

"Lower operating cost of tier II and III cities (compared to established locations such as Bangalore) and additional incentives by state government for investment promotion have prompted service providers to expand their offshore operations to smaller cities," Everest Group Vice President Amneet Singh told reporters here.

The report cited examples of companies such as Deutsche Bank and Genpact, which have set up their offshore operations at Jaipur, while Dell and EDS-Mphasis, which have opened centres in Chandigarh and Ahmedabad respectively.

However, this growth has been mainly restricted to third-party suppliers.

Company-owned units (captives) continue to prefer tier-I cities due to their enhanced infrastructure, commuting facilities and overall better quality of life.

Captives are business units of a company that function offshore as entities of their own, while retaining close operational tie-ups within the parent company.

India has retained dominance in the captive space with 37 per cent share. Of the 38 new announcements this quarter, 14 of these set-ups were made in India.

Speaking on the global market, Singh said that outsourcing and offshoring services remained on a growth trajectory Q2 of 2010, on the back of robust transaction and captive activity.

"The market continues to grow on the back of transaction volumes and positive traction in the banking, financial and insurance (BFSI) verticals," Everest Group Principal and Country Head India Gaurav Gupta said.

Even though some geographies and industry verticals like manufacturing witnessed lower activity during this quarter, the overall outlook remains fairly optimistic, he added.

While the outsourcing market grew by 12 per cent quarter-on-quarter with 498 reported transactions, the BPO market increased by 15 per cent and 33 per cent in transaction volume and annualised contract value terms respectively.

The report includes data from 20 companies, including Accenture, Convergys, Hewitt, IBM, Dell Services, Cognizant, Genpact, HCL, Infosys, Mahindra Satyam, TCS, Wipro and WNS.
ET (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/infotech/ites/Smaller-cities-lucrative-destinations-for-IT-BPO-firms/articleshow/6257283.cms)

Heard that wipro is expanding in Mysore.

Mega textile unit in Bijapur soon
TNN, Aug 15, 2010, 10.27pm IST
BIJAPUR: A mega textile unit will be coming up in the historic city of Bijapur shortly, in nearly 100 acres of land allotted at Mayalabagayat Industrial area, said district minister Murugesh Nirani.

Addressing a press meet here on Sunday after hoisting the national flag at the district stadium he said, "This mega industry has been set up by APCA Delian Company with an investment of Rs 500 crore. After the establishment of this unit, nearly 5000 employment opportunities will be generated in the district."

The unit will be inaugurated on August 27. The CM has been invited to inaugurate the mega unit.

TOI (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hubli/Mega-textile-unit-in-Bijapur-soon/articleshow/6316124.cms)

Hubli IT Park drawing more companies
Quote:
Girish Pattanashetti

16,000-sq.-ft space allotted to STPI for expansion; Hescom plans Data Entry Centre

The hub:The IT Park in Hubli was inaugurated in September 2002 by the then Union Minister for Information Technology Pramod Mahajan.

HUBLI: Persistent efforts to attract information technology (IT) and information technology enabled services (ITES) companies to the Information Technology (IT) Park in Hubli, which became functional in 2002, seem to be showing results with more companies evincing interest in starting their operations here.

The IT Park in Hubli was inaugurated by the then Union Minister for Information Technology Pramod Mahajan on September 19, 2002 amid much hype. However, the park was a showpiece for a few years with major companies remaining reluctant to start their operations here.

Initial years

In the first four years, only Tata Teleservices and RMS Technologies set up their units at the park apart from the branch of Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), and 1.6 lakh sq.-ft space remained unutilised. The only silver lining at that time was that the STPI branch had received good returns and was expanding its operations to other cities in north Karnataka.

In its attempt to attract investors, the State Government organised “Destination Hubli” in Bangalore in 2004 to showcase the city as an IT destination. This was followed by IT Investors' Meet in 2006 here, during which the Government announced reduced rent at the park to attract more companies.

Results

“Ever since the IT Investors' Meet was held, we tried to keep in touch with the companies that had evinced in starting their operations here. In the subsequent years our follow up yielded results,” H. Devanand, Manager of Karnataka State Electronics Development Corporation Limited (KEONICS) at Hubli and in-charge of the park, told The Hindu.

Now, of the total 1.72 lakh-sq.-ft space available in the four-storey park, only 82,000 sq. ft is vacant.

Expansion

An area of 16,000 sq. ft was recently allotted to the STPI for expansion of its existing set up at the park.

Meanwhile, Hubli Electricity Supply Company (Hescom) has proposed to take around 30,000-sq.-ft area on rent for its proposed Data Entry Centre and a private firm has evinced interest in taking 20,000 sq. ft on rent in the park.

“Of the 16,000-sq.-ft space allotted to the STPI, 6,000 sq. ft will be utilised immediately. The rest will be utilised in a phased manner,” Mr. Devanand said.

Another significant issue is that after remaining inactive for four-and-a-half years, the International Institute of Information Technology Hubli-Dharwad (IIIT-HD) became functional in 2008 with the launch of two finishing school programmes by IIIT-Bangalore. Now, IIIT-HD is successfully running the programmes and is also conducting other IT-related activities.
The Hindu (http://www.hindu.com/2010/08/21/stories/2010082150290200.htm)
Finally, after very long, the park seems to take off :cheers: We need one such park each in mys, mlore, belgaum and gulbarga...

SEZs should be the best option if DST issue is resolved.
STPs will attract tax from next yr

Press Trust of India / Bangalore September 14, 2010, 16:36 IST

In a bid to give a further fillip to the IT sector in Karnataka, the government would soon unveil three policies, including Information Communication Technology (ICT) by this October-end, Minister for IT & BT, Katta Subramanya Naidu said here today.

"The state will unfold its new policy on hardware and animation either on October 28 or 29, besides the ICT policy," he told reporters here.

Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has been requested to unveil the policies, Naidu said after chairing a high-level meeting of his department, where he reviewed the progress made on several projects in IT and BT.

The first phase of Karnataka's ambitious Rs one lakh crore Information Technology Investment Region on about 10,000 acres at Devanahally near Bengaluru International Airport would take off by the first week of December.

The state has already notified 2,072 acres for the project and another 8,000 acres would be notified in a week, he said, adding that the government was acquiring only non-agricultural land for the mega project.

In the first phase, about 2,000 acres with Rs 25,000 crore investment is planned and the entire ITIR development would be completed in about 12 years. "The ITIR when completed will provide employment at least 40 lakh persons," he said.

Naidu said work on the IT park in Shimoga has begun and that in Mangalore was likely to be launched in two months.

Alexandria Company has been accorded permission to develop a Biotech park on 56 acres near Electronic City. They have invested Rs 250 crore and the government has leased the land for 60 years at a fixed rental of Rs 11.73 lakh per acres per annum, he said.

An Agri Bio tech park is coming up at Dharward and a Marine biotech park in Mangalore, he said.

The minister said the government has approved establishment of 10 BT finishing schools by private players.
BS (http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/karnataka-to-unveil-3-policiesit-sector/108682/on)

Special Correspondent

MYSORE: Rebounding from the economic slowdown and bucking the recession trend in the IT sector, Mysore-based Software Paradigms Infotech Ltd (SPI) is on an expansion mode and will augment its capacity by creating new facilities in the city. The company has drawn plans for the second phase of SPICity, with a built-up area of 85,000 sq ft, and will create at least 1,000 new jobs taking its employee strength to 2,500.

Disclosing this, Sid Mookerji, CEO of SPI, said here on Wednesday that the foundation stone for the SPICity-II will be laid on Thursday.

It is expected to be fully operational in 18 months. He said the new campus will entail an investment of Rs. 20 crore.
The Hindu (http://www.hindu.com/2010/09/16/stories/2010091659310300.htm)

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Govt okays 11 special economic zones
Thursday, September 16, 2010 5:58:20 PM by IANS ( Leave a comment )

New Delhi, Sep 16 (IANS) The government Thursday approved 11 new special economic zones, five of which are related to information technology and based in Karnataka.
Wipro has got the approval to set up two SEZs, one in Bangalore and another in Mysore district.

Infosys has got the government’s nod to set a SEZ in Bangalore.

Formal approval has been granted for setting up 10 SEZs while in-principle approval has been given to a chemicals and pharmaceuticals SEZ by Vivimed Labs in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh, an official statement said.

So far 577 formal approvals have been granted for setting up of SEZs, out of which 363 have been notified.

According to official data, Rs.1,66,526 crore have been invested in the SEZs, which are providing employment to 5,50,323 people.

During the financial year 2009-10, total exports of Rs.2,20,711 crore was made from SEZs. The exports in the first quarter of financial year 2010-11, has been to the tune of Rs.58,685.46 crore, registering a growth of 68 percent over the exports of corresponding period of the previous financial year.

The other SEZs that have got the government’s approval include Poornimadevi Tech Park Private Limited in Bangalore, Lepakshi Knowledge Hub Private Limited in Ananthapur district of Andhra Pradesh, Suryo Infra Projects Private Limited in Bhubaneswar, Orissa, and Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust in Mumbai.
source (http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/business/govt-okays-11-special-economic-zones_100429662.html)



BOA on SEZs Grants Ten Formal and one in-Principal Approvals

17:42 IST

The Board of Approval of the Special Economic Zones (SEZs) met here today to consider proposals for setting up of Special Economic Zones and also to approve other miscellaneous requests pertaining to SEZs.

Addressing the Board of Approval members, the Chairman informed that so far 577 formal approvals have been granted for setting up of SEZs out of which 363 have been notified. He further informed that over Rs. 1,66,526 crore have been invested in the Special Economic Zones and direct employment of the order of 5,50,323 persons has been generated in the Special Economic Zones. During the financial year 2009-10, total exports of Rs. 2,20,711 approx. crore has been made from SEZs. The exports in the first quarter of financial year 2010-11, has been to the tune of Rs. 58,685.46 crore approx. registering a growth of 68% over the exports of corresponding period of the previous financial year.

In this meeting, the Board recommended grant of Ten Formal Approvals and one In-Principal Approval.


Formal Approvals:


Ø IT/ITES - M/s. Poornimadevi Tech Park Private Limited, Sulikere Village, Kengari Hobli, Bangalore South Taluk, Bangalore, Karnataka.

Ø Biotechnology – M/s. Lepakshi Knowledge Hub Private Limited, Chillamaturu and Gorantla Mandal, Ananthapur District, Andhra Pradesh.

Ø Aerospace & Precision Engineering – M/s. Lepakshi Knowledge Hub Private Limited, Chillamaturu and Gorantla Mandal, Ananthapur District, Andhra Pradesh.

Ø FTWZ - M/s. Lepakshi Knowledge Hub Private Limited, Chillamaturu and Gorantla Mandal, Ananthapur District, Andhra Pradesh.

Ø Electronic Hardware and Software including ITES – M/s. Gopalan E-Park, Village Koorgalli, Itwala, Hobli, Mysore District, Karnataka.

Ø IT/ITES – M/s. Suryo Infra Projects Private Limited, Mouza – Tulasideipur, Chandaka, Bhubaneswar, Orissa.

Ø Information Technology (IT) – M/s. Infosys Technologies Limited, Sarjapur Village & Billapur Village, Anekal Taluk, Bangalore, Karnataka.

Ø IT/ITES – M/s. Wipro Limited, Kodathi Village, Varthur Hobli, Sarjapur Road, Bangalore.

Ø IT/ITES – M/s. Wipro Limited, Belagola Industrial Area, Mogarhalli Village, Belagola Hobli, Srirangapatna Taluk, Mandya district, Mysore, Karnataka.

Ø Port Based SEZ – M/s. Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), Navi Mumbai, Mumbai, Maharashtra.


In-Principle Approval:

Ø Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals(Bulk/APIs/Formulations) – M/s. Vivimed Labs Limited, Boyapalem, Naruva & Chittivalasa Villages, Ranasthalam Mandal, Srikakulam District, Andhra Pradesh.

PIB (http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=65819)

Mysore has got two SEZs--Gopalan Hardware IT/ITES SEZ and WIPRO SEZ ---Wipro has a small campus heard that it is planning a huge campus in Mysore.

L&T SEZ is on track in Hebbal industrial Area,Mysore.

Mysore has bounced backed amazingly,in almost all Industries/sectors.Good going Mysore:banana:

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Mysore, Sept.16 (JP)- Software Paradigms International (SPI) set the stage for expanding their Hebbal campus with the ground breaking ceremony (Guddali Puja) performed by Ashok Kumar Manoli, Principal Secretary, IT&BT, this morning at the SPI campus in Hebbal.

After the invocation, Ashok Kumar Manoli and City Police Commissioner Sunil Agarwal unveiled the foundation stone of the new campus following which Manoli and other guests were taken on a tour of SPI facilities.

Girish Karunakaran, Vice- President (IT operations-SPI), speaking to SOM, said that with the changing challenges in the IT sector, SPI was poised to make the quantum jump both in services and manpower. SPI currently has around 1,000 employees and they will be recruiting another 2,500 by the year 2012.

Karunakaran also said that SPI was a 24X7 business that used the latest VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and data conferencing technologies.

The group is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia (USA), with operational facilities at Toronto, Canada and Mysore. There is also a branch office of the Mysore division at Mangalore.

SOM

State to sign a MoU with MATIMOP of Israel: Revised IT policy to be unveiled soon

Similarly, the animation policy was aimed at giving a boost to the sector through establishment of academy and enhancing skills of creative people. He said that new IT parks were coming up in Mangalore, Shimoga, Belgaum and Gulbarga, while KEONICS was taking up a project for developing an IT Park in Mysore with “plug and play” facility for IT industries, particularly small and medium enterprises. http://www.c2clive.com/latestnewsdetail.php?id=2749

Mangalore gets Marine, IT parks

An IT Park too would come up in Mangalore for the promotion of small and medium IT entrepreneurs in second tier cities. The government based KEONICS would set up the park with the participation of the private sector. The detailed reports of both projects would be worked out soon, Mr Naidu said

The Minister department has decided to IT parks in Shimoga, Gulbarga, and Mysore on PPP mode. Contract for the Gulbarga IT Park would be awarded on Wednesday (September 15) and it would come up on 53,000 sqft, he said. http://mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=broadcast&broadcastid=197597

What is there in Shimoga other than that Yeddy is there?? :bash:

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QuEST launches aerospace SEZ in Belgaum


The Hindu Businessline (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2009/11/16/stories/2009111650501300.htm)

QuEST, Indo Schottle sign MoU

DHNS (http://www.deccanherald.com/content/73269/quest-indo-schottle-sign-mou.html)

DEAR SIR, PLS GIVE ME PROJECT SITE LOCATION IN BELGAUM

DEAR SIR, PLS GIVE ME PROJECT SITE LOCATION IN BELGAUM

Basva sir,this SEZ is located on the NH 4 near Hattargi Village Belgaum district(14-20 KM from city)----It is located at the junction of NH 4 and Gokak road.

Agri-BT park to be set up in Dharwad

Nagesh Prabhu

It will come up on 30 acres of land at the UAS

The aim of the park is to provide biotech knowhow to farmers

Ernst & Young has been appointed as project management consultant

Bangalore: A Rs. 80-crore agri-biotech (Agri-BT) park will come up in Dharwad, on the public private partnership (PPP) model, to provide biotech knowhow for farmers, and forward and backward linkages for stakeholders in the field in north Karnataka.

Spain-based Savaia Biotech and the U.S.-based University of Massachusetts have expressed interest in developing the agri-BT park, which would be established on 30 acres of land at the University of Agricultural Sciences-Dharwad premises. Consultants have held discussions with officials of UAS- Dharwad, on the proposed project and its benefits, officials in the Information Technology, Biotechnology Department told The Hindu.

Ernst & Young has been appointed as project management consultant (PMC) for preparation of the detailed project report. Officials in the IT/BT department said that request for proposal (RFP) containing information on technical and financial aspects would be issued soon. The private partner would be finalised for the project by November 10.

Salient activities

The proposed activities at that park would be research and development in agriculture, gene construction, planting material for vegetables, medicinal plants and pest management. Transgenic plants of various crops being cultivated in north Karnataka region would be developed at the park.

An expert at the UAS-Dharwad pointed out that the idea was to use biotechnology to hone ancient agriculture methods. “The moment farmers know that vermicompost and biotech products help productivity and health of the crop, they shift to it,” the expert said.

The proposed park would also include scientific storage facilities for all types of farm produce; primary processing services such as cleaning, grading, packing, quality certification services and marketing-export linkages. It can also address the issues of abysmal productivity, post-harvest and storage problems.

Marine park

The Government has proposed to set up a marine park on an 18 acres of land belonging to the Fisheries College, Mangalore. The estimated cost of the project is $20 million.

The project would be taken up on a PPP model to develop activities such as research and development, up-scaling technology and processing waste.

Request

Officials said the request for the proposal would be issued by October 15 while the private partner would be finalised by November-end.
The Hindu (http://www.hindu.com/2010/09/24/stories/2010092462310900.htm)

The Hindu (http://www.hindu.com/2010/09/16/stories/2010091659310300.htm)

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IT spread, tier II cities: Foundation stone laid for SPICity project in Mysore
http://www.c2clive.com/latestnewsdetail.php?id=2750

Mysore, 16th Sept: Describing Mysore as the second most important destination for information technology in the State after Bangalore, the Principal Secretary to the Government on IT, BT and ST, Ashok Kumar C. Manoli, said the Government was now focussing on dispersal of IT and development of tier II cities.

He was speaking after laying the foundation stone for Software Paradigm Infotech's SPICity project here on Thursday. Mr. Manoli said Mysore with 53 companies, including Infosys, had contributed Rs. 1,000 crore worth of software exports during the last financial year.

Mysore had emerged as the most important and potential IT destination after Bangalore mainly because of its close proximity to the State capital. Mr. Manoli said there were distinct advantages of moving to tier II cities such as Mysore as research and analysis had proved that the operating costs, including salaries to employees, were down by 36 per cent, which had to be capitalised.

The new campus in the Hebbal Industrial Area would have a built up area of 85,000 sq ft and create 1,000 new jobs taking the SPI's global employee strength to 2,500. He said the State was now promoting BPO firms in rural areas and had established 16 such units in various places, including Srirangapatana and Gundlupet near Mysore.

Sid Mookerji, Chief Executive Officer of SPI, said the new complex would become operational in 18 months and had been necessitated to accommodate the growing requirements of the organisation in terms of new clients, acquisitions fuelled by growth.

He said SPI had achieved a year-on-year growth rate of 69 per cent over the last few years despite recession and slowdown and had established its presence in Singapore, Canada, U.K., Australia and the U.S.Mr. Mookerji said SPI's focus on retail market was a major differentiator which enabled the company to establish itself and grow.
Yes, proximity to bangalore matters for human resource... They can visit IT capital city EVERY weekend. Hope Mysore will compete with Tier I cities of other states soon, wipro coming already :banana:

TCS bags IT contract from Karnataka government

Software export major TCS today said it has bagged a contract from the state of Karnataka for establishing and managing a proposed State Data Centre (SDC).

The new SDC will provide better operation and management control and minimise overall cost of data management, IT resource management, deployment and other costs, TCS said in a press statement.

However, the company did not divulge financial details on the contract received from Karnataka.
"E-governance is the only good road to good governance and while technology is expensive, not using technology is even more expensive," Government of Karnataka e-Governance Department Principal Secretary M N Vidyashankar said.

TCS will assist the government of Karnataka in establishing a reliable and efficient SDC.

The company has already done similar e-governance projects on behalf of the states of Puducherry and Uttar Pradesh.

TCS is already associated with the Centre for e-governance in setting up the new Secretariat Local Area Network (LAN). It has also been managing the entire Secretariat LAN of the government of Karnataka for five years, the company said.

Shares of TCS were trading at Rs 929.90 on the BSE today, down 0.17 per cent from the previous close.

BUSINESS STANDARD

Mysore to get IT/ITES SEZ soon

Imran Khan

First Published : 15 Oct 2010 02:35:52 AM IST
Last Updated : 15 Oct 2010 09:34:06 AM IST

BANGALORE: Mysore will soon get a Rs 2000 crore special economic zone (SEZ) to boost its information technology (IT ) and IT enabled sector (ITES). The special economic zone project will generate employment for around 200 local youth in the IT/ITES sectors and extend infrastructure facilities in the district, said the 23rd State High Level Clearance Committee (SHLCC) which cleared the project in July this year.

The IT/ITES special economic zone project is the brainchild of Delhi based DSC Limited, which is part of the DSC group. The group claims itself to be one of the pioneers of the BOT (Build, Operate and Transfer) space.

The SEZ project, which was approved by the SHLCC, is coming up on 30 acres of land in Mysore district. The land for the project will be acquired by Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB), for which the identification of land will be done by DSC Limited.

The company has been asked by the Commerce and Industries (C I) department to prepare a plan for development of human resources required for the project, train local people and provide employment to the trained youth.

For procuring the required inputs and components for the project, the company has been directed to develop the local vendors. The company has been asked to submit a vendor development plan to the Director of Industries Commerce for monitoring.

They have been also asked to take up social infrastructure development projects in the vicinity of the proposed location of the unit. The company has also been directed to provide employment to at least one member of the family of each land loser.

Express News Service (http://expressbuzz.com/states/karnataka/mysore-to-get-itites-sez-soon/215367.html)

8 Oct, 2010, 01.14PM IST,ANI

Encore, Inc. chooses Robosoft for secure distribution of Mac Games, Apps

NEW UDUPI (Karnataka): Robosoft Technologies , a renowned developer of Mac, iPhone and iPad games and a leader in secure digital distribution of Mac video games, is proud to announce its strategic relationship with Encore, Inc. - the leading retail publisher for a complete range of personal productivity, utility, education and game titles.

Encore has selected Robosoft's DRMConnect, a comprehensive Digital Rights Management solution, to protect and manage the licensing of its Mac products and game titles for digital and retail distribution.

"Encore is a Top Ten interactive software publisher and a leading player in the retail distribution, personal productivity, utility, education and game titles for both Mac and PC. Encore was looking for an easy-to-use DRM system for Mac applications that can be integrated with their websites as well as reporting tools for trial conversions, customizable user interface, and compatibility with current operating systems. We were pleased to offer DRMConnect, a secure, flexible yet economical Mac Digital Rights Management solution and were delighted to fulfill their Mac DRM needs" said Rohith Bhat, Managing Director and CEO of Robosoft.

"We looked at a number of DRM technologies. There were many options available for the PC platform, but we had difficulty finding the right solution for our Mac products. DRMConnect offered us the best security protection, with helpful built-in tracking and conversion mechanisms, at a reasonable price," said Cal Morrell, Encore's president.

Mac unit sales have averaged a worldwide growth rate of 20 percent year-over-year since 2008 and are maintaining a rapid growth with the latest Q3 - 2010 results announced by Apple. Indie developers and large publishing houses are now porting their titles from other platforms onto the Mac platform to get a share of the Mac Software/Game business.

DRMConnect is a robust DRM solution for distributing Mac games, software, and casual and AAA titles on the Mac platform. DRMConnect offers flexible methods for wrapping the Mac software products and games based on various factors like the number of minutes playable, number of days or launches, etc. DRMConnect also offers the flexibility to game publishers and distributors to apply one single DRM solution for digital sales as well as traditional retail channels.

ET (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/infotech/internet/Encore-Inc-chooses-Robosoft-for-secure-distribution-of-Mac-Games-Apps/articleshow/6712317.cms)

Exports from Hassan SEZ Crosses Rs.350 Crore in 2010
SEZ Changes Socio-economic Landscape of the region

Employment Potential of 90,000 in textiles, pharma and food Processing Units
15:23 IST

Hassan Special Economic Zone (SEZ), which has been developed by the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB), has achieved an export of Rs.350 crore during 2010. The corresponding exports during 2008 and 2009 were Rs.228.71 crore and Rs.329.28 crore respectively. The Hassan SEZ comprises multi-product export units in textiles (Himatsingka Seide Ltd and NTC), food processing (Fresco Foods Ltd.) and pharma sector with a total area of approx. 460 hectares. The approximate investment planned by KIADB to develop these units was more than Rs.100 crores. These units in the Hassan SEZ has the employment potential for about 90,000 people viz., 35000 in textile sector; 30000 in food processing and 25000 in pharma sector.

The National Textile Corporation (NTC) is planning to export its shirts under brand name “Entyce” to the US and Europe markets with a production capacity of about 50,000 shirts per day. The Unit is expected to produce 10,000 kg of yarn and 20,000 meters of fabric every day. Himatsingka Seide Ltd which has recently commissioned its new bed Linen manufacturing facility in the SEZ, has state-of-the-art integrated plant with weaving, processing and making up facilities having an annual installed capacity of 20 million meters, which corresponds to 9,000 sheet sets a day. Against an estimated project outlay of Rs.400 crore, the company has invested around Rs.450 crore so far. Fresco Foods Ltd., another food processing unit is exporting gherkins to developed markets in Europe.

To act as a true catalyst of socio-economic development, units at Hassan SEZs are undertaking CSR (corporate social responsibility) activities for its employees. The objective is balancing the need of socio-economic growth with that of social emancipation. One of the SEZ units involved in textile export engages around 5000 women workforce from poor and marginally poor families. Apart from giving employment to women workers, the unit concentrates on giving them free education with nutritious food for economic upliftment. The workers work in a clean environment and their health needs are taken care of by the units. They are provided with hostel accommodation and transportation facilities. True to its value of empowering women, SEZ units have changed socio-economic landscape of the entire region.

Hassan SEZ has been specially delineated as duty-free enclave with the objective of being deemed to be a foreign territory for the purpose of trade operations. The geographical location also gives it an edge as it is strategically located to serve as an international business hub for South-East Asia, Africa, Middle East Asia and SAARC nations.

Brief on SEZs

In short span of about four years since SEZs Act and Rules were notified in February, 2006, formal approvals have been granted for setting up of 577 SEZs out of which 363 have been notified. Out of the total employment provided to 5,50,323 persons in SEZs as a whole 4,15,619 persons is incremental employment generated after February, 2006 when the SEZ Act has come into force. This is apart from million of man days of employment created by the developer for infrastructure activities. Physical exports from the SEZs have increased from Rs.99,689 crore in 2008-09 to Rs.2,20,711.39 crore in 2009-10, registering a growth of 121%. There has been overall growth of export of 1493% over past seven years (2003-04 to 2009-10). These figures establish beyond doubt that the response to the SEZ policy of the Central Government has been overwhelming and the scheme has been able to achieve the envisaged objectives. An investment of Rs.1,66,526.43 crore has been made in SEZs this includes Foreign Direct Investment of Rs.17,683.56 crore.

PIB (http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=66429)

28 Oct, 2010, 07.00AM IST, Mini Joseph Tejaswi,TNN

Davids take on goliaths in offshoring

BANGALORE: The boutique-sized , niche-focused outsourcing providers seem to be giving giants like HP, IBM, Accenture , TCS , Infosys , Wipro , HCL and Cognizant tough competition in terms of offering a greater degree of customer satisfaction.

A comprehensive poll of over 6,547 outsourcing clients worldwide found that smaller vendors are satisfying more clients, and to a much greater degree, in comparison with their big-ticket counterparts. The study carried out by the Black Book of Outsourcing - which was acquired by business research firm Datamonitor Group a year ago - has represented all outsourcing fields including IT, KPO, LPO and BPO.

Although feedback on the big names, such as IBM and HP, has been generally positive, the companies that have excelled in delighting the customers have been smaller players . For instance, the Philippinesbased ITES firm, American Discovery and Mysore-based legal process outsourcing firm, SDD Global Solutions have been ranked as the top two outsourcing companies in the world.

So what makes these smaller players stand taller in the global market? `Smaller outsourcing providers like SDD Global have been pushing their specialist knowledge and deep client understanding as their unique selling point for some time now, claiming that specialists provide a better service . While all outsourcers talk up their ability to specialise this survey suggests that SDD Global and other smaller players are best positioned to deliver on that promise,'' said Eamonn Kennedy , who led the research for Datamonitor.

The study has assessed customer satisfaction using nine different parameters like requirements awareness , shared goals, financial benefits, risk mitigation, partnership approach , problem resolution, corporate reputation, skills and resources and future orientation.

Some 40 clients, including 20th Century Fox, HBO, Universal Pictures , Channel 4 Television Corporation , Media Rights Capital, of SDD Global were interviewed for the study. "Like the latest cutting-edge Indian IT engineers, our legal team has proven that India does not need to be a mere back office. In fact, our team has been performing critical front-office functions like sophisticated legal research , analysis and drafting wowing global clients,'' said Russell A Smith , president, SDD Global.

ET (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/ites/Davids-take-on-goliaths-in-offshoring/articleshow/6825755.cms)

Bolo Mysore ki Jai :banana:

Keonics' Mysore IT park evokes good response

Anil Urs

Hubli, Nov 3

Karnataka State Electronics Development Corporation Ltd (Keonics) has been getting good response to its proposed IT Park at Mysore.

The IT park is being built under public private partnership (PPP) route, on corporation's five acre land in KIADB, Hebbal Industrial Area, close to Infosys' campus, in Mysore.

“We are to build IT parks in Mysore through PPP mode, where in the private partner brings in investments, provide good design and implementation capabilities, and make the project a reality.

The corporation plans to lease the land to the private partner for a period of 30 years with an extension of 30 years totalling to 60 years,” said a senior Keonics official.

“The private partner is to complete the construction within 24 months from the date of signing agreement,” he added.

Alternate it destination

The Karnataka Government is promoting Mysore as an alternate destination for the IT industry and has plans to develop it as a counter magnet to Bangalore.

As a result, slowly the city is attracting IT and ITeS industry and is poised to play a bigger role.

“To facilitate this, we are giving infrastructure thrust by taking up IT-Park construction, as the city has similar advantage to Bangalore - in terms of climate, reasonably good infrastructure, and human resources - as Bangalore,” said the official.

Keonics is going in for mixed land use - where in a minimum of 40 per cent of the site is reserved for IT park area.

Mixed land use

The remaining area is set aside for commercial development such as mall, convention centre, three-star hotel, and service apartment. Residential or social infrastructure like educational/ health centre is also planned but it depends on the space allocation.

The corporation recently had called for bids from project management consultants (PMCs) such as real estate firms, property developers, hotel operators and IT companies. So far about four to six bids have come and the deadline for accepting bids is November end.

According to the official, “Lease amount fixed for the entire land of five acres is Rs 55,000 a year. Ten per cent hike every 10 years for the first 30 years and Rs 1 lakh a year lease annually for the remaining lease period.”

“Since the project is taken up under PPP through bidding process. The minimum upfront non-refundable/non adjustable price for the prospective bidders is fixed at Rs 40 lakh an acre and the bidders have to bid the upfront price for the project over and above the minimum price fixed,” the official added.
The Hindu Businessline (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2010/11/04/stories/2010110452361900.htm)

National Energy China Delegation visits Synefra’s Padubidri SEZ (http://bignews.biz/?id=938915)

Nov 11,2010 - A 12 member team from the China National Energy Administration, China Guangdong Nuclear Power, HYDROCHINA Corporation and CREIA arrived at Mangalore for a one day visit to the SEZ as part of their visit to India for Indo-China business cooperation.

Synefra, which has developed around 1,400 acres of SEZs in three different States with an investment of approx USD 200 million, showcased the infrastructure and facilities of their Padubidri SEZ to the officials from China, which is fully operational for the last 3 years. The Padbudri SEZ area is spread across 670 acres approx. and caters to a range of industries including engineering, logistics, warehousing, foundry and other associated industries. This SEZ currently provides direct employment of about 1200 people of Udupi and Dakshina Kannada District and an outsourced employment to another 1000 families.

During the visit, the delegation led by Mr. Lui Qui, Vice Minister met the members of Synefra’s senior management team, discussed a number of issues including the role of SEZ in regions such as Padubidri and how they propel the growth of the area. Padubidri’s proximity to the New Mangalore Port was an added advantage he remarked. Mr. Sanjeev Nakhasi, VP, Operations gave a presentation on the opportunities and challenges since the SEZ’s inception and later the dignitaries were escorted on an SEZ tour, where detailed explanations were given of the various facilities provided by Synefra to its unit holders.

Mr. JR Tanti, Managing Director, Synefra E & C remarked “The Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board and District administration have been very supportive and helped us tremendously for smooth land acquisition, rehabilitation and resettlement process as well as promoting the SEZ for regional growth.

Clearly impressed by the facility, the delegation expressed their appreciation and wished success for future endeavors of Synefra.

Chinese team visits SEZ

Staff Correspondent

Udupi: Leading integrated infrastructure solutions' provider, Synefra Engineering and Construction Ltd., on Thursday welcomed a top-level Government and business delegation from China at its Padubidri Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Udupi district.

A press release issued by Synefra here on Thursday said a 12-member team from the China National Energy Administration, China Guangdong Nuclear Power, HYDROCHINA Corporation and CREIA arrived in Mangalore for a one-day visit to the SEZ as part of their visit to India for Indo-China business cooperation. The SEZ area was spread across approximately 670 acres.

The Hindu (http://www.hindu.com/2010/11/12/stories/2010111264530300.htm)

What is the use of just visiting?:nuts:

Mysore to get IT/ITES SEZ soon

Imran Khan

First Published : 15 Oct 2010 02:35:52 AM IST
Last Updated : 15 Oct 2010 09:34:06 AM IST


Express News Service (http://expressbuzz.com/states/karnataka/mysore-to-get-itites-sez-soon/215367.html)

Guys any idea how big the project would be?DSC has not updated it yet on their website

Work on Gopalan IT SEZ is underway--L&T SEZ 650 cr is also underway.Honeywell has land in Mysore??

Any more updates?? Mysoreans plzz wake up.....

SPCity---which is to come up in Mysore north --

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Overview - Mysore

Mysore is located in the state of Karnataka, 140 Km from Bangalore. Mysore is city of palaces, gardens, shady avenues and sacred temples and offers an affordable and comfortable lifestyle to its inhabitants. Mysore is also an important educational, commercial and administrative centre.

Mysore is viewed as one of the most promising Tier-II cities in India. Efforts are being made by the current state administration to persuade IT companies to move to Mysore, to ease the infrastructure burden on Bangalore and enhance the overall development of the state. The existing four-lane road linking Mysore to Bangalore is being upgraded to a six-lane highway, which will significantly reduce the commute time between the two cities. Mysore and Bangalore are also connected by rail and there are plans to re-open and upgrade Mysore airport.
Infosys has recently established a state of the art campus on 330 acres of land in Mysore. Wipro has also acquired land to develop a facility in the city, and a number of other companies such as Larsen & Toubro Infotech, Software Paradigm India (SPI), Reid & Talyor, L&T Electronics already have operations in the city.

Location


SP Infocity is located in the north-west of Mysore next to the key industrial growth area in Mysore, the KIADB Industrial Area. It is in the industrial/IT growth corridor marked by the Govt. of Karnataka. SP Infocity is located just 2 kms from the main Mysore city and 15 minutes drive from Mysore’s city centre. It is easily accessible by road.

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Features

Township development spread over approx. 141 acres

Total development area of approx. 15 million sft; IT space of approx.12 million sft

Mixed use development comprising of IT offices, service apartments, hotel, residential development and recreational facilities

Multiple buildings offering varying sizes in office space

Flat slab RCC construction

Column grid of 8 to 10 metres

Large floor plates with high floor efficiency

100% power back up

High side air conditioning

Fully equipped clubhouse, food court, ATM

Formally Approved IT/ITeS SEZ

Status

Construction to commence shortly.

Phases and timelines to be finalized soon.
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http://www.spinfocity.com/contents/mysore.htm

^^ this will be close to wipro sez recently approved in mysore-mandya border.. so now we have an IT corridor in mysore

DSC Group--Delhi based co has plans to setup 2000 crore IT SEZ,the location is still not known--It has entrusted the land acquisition job to KIADB.
Wipro SEZ is to come up in Belagola--North of Mysore,this is slightly to North west--Yes you are right Most of the IT/electronic companies are setting up in Hebbal and Metagalli indutrial areas.Gopalan IT SEZ work is underway which is also close to the above corridor--Koragalli to be precise--L&T sez ois very close to Infosys SEZ at Metagalli.

Heard Honeywell has land in Mysore??

Opto circuits is setting up SEZ in nanjangud industrial area--South Mysore--I think they requested for space close to Mysore airport.

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http://www.icicihfc.com/property_pdfs/manglore-report.pdf



The biggest SEZ of Mangalore- MSEZ- ONGC (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=59363935&postcount=4)

^^ :eek2: see the size of infosys SEZ

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In terms of investment MSEZi s actually one of the biggest in India with an investment of 50,000 crores (phase 1)or more (100,000 crores )if we include phase 2 as well.

^^ see the size of infosys SEZ

Infosys has great plans for Mangalore- 25000 employees

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BTW,Mysore Infosys SEZ 1+2 = 337 acres.The above table shows only Infosys phase 1 development,phase 2 was inaugurated recently by Sonia Gandhi--Infosys is still expanding its Mysore campus.
Mangalore Infosys 1 and 2

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In terms of investment MSEZi s actually one of the biggest in India with an investment of 50,000 crores (phase 1)or more (100,000 crores )if we include phase 2 as well.

Yes MSEZ is one of the biggest SEZ in the state---Promoted by ONGC-MRPL.

^^ wow!! thanks akash for the info.. two questions that how many locals will be employed out of 25k employees?? and when will both the phases will be completed??

^^ wow!! thanks akash for the info.. two questions that how many locals will be employed out of 25k employees?? and when will both the phases will be completed??

IT sector is one which looks to integrate whole of India--you can expect good representation of people from whole of India.:)

Mangalore Infosys SEZ-Renders

Works are underway in Mangalore SEZ.Here are some of the renders posted by Dex Mangalore-- Mangalore forumer


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Mangalore is a beautiful city yaar :cheers:

Mangalore is a beautiful city yaar :cheers:

that it is clearly visible in the photos posted ;) :cheers:

Mangalore SEZ is on track: ONGC chairman

Despite opposition from the local residents in and around Mangalore for acquisition of land, the proposed Mangalore Special Economic Zone (MSEZ) would be completed as scheduled, a top ONGC official said.

““We are aware of all issues like land acquisition for the project. In any big project problems like these are bound to happen. We are appropriately taking care of it. We have acquired 2,300 acres already and the balance land will be acquired very soon,” R S Sharma, chairman and managing director, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) said.

Talking to reporters on the sidelines of Quality Summit organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), here today, he said the company would overcome problems of land acquisition and complete the project.

The MSEZ project, initiated in 2006 by ONGC, the principal promoter, is expected to see an investment of close to Rs 35,000 crore once it is completed.

Currently, massive construction activity is going on in Mangalore and by March 2012, the company has set a clear roadmap to commission the project including the Mangalore refinery and petrochemicals complex, he said.

Commenting on the opposition by Pejavar Mutt head, Vishveshatheertha Swamiji for land acquisition for the expansion of MSEZ, Sharma said, “MSEZ is moving on the right direction. There are no major concerns. Because of the reputation of the ONGC we do get audience at the highest level. I will be meeting the top bureaucrats of the state government today and raise the issues with them and sort out.”

However, he said there is no deadline for this project. The investments are flowing on the right direction. IL&FS, the equity partner in the project is taking care of the funding requirements, he added.

“All the lump sum turnkey contracts (LSTK) have been awarded. We are also putting up single point mooring (SPM) so that the refinery is able to improve the margins. I can only say that the progress is extremely satisfactory,” he said

The BSE-listed Datamatics Global Services plans to team up with companies that have plants in Tier-II and III centres to establish its delivery presence there.

As a first step in this direction, the Mumbai-based outsourcing company has joined hands with a technology arm of the JSW Group to set up a back office unit at the latter's steel plant in Bellary district of Karnataka. Through its association with JSoft Solutions — the IT & ITES arm of the JSW Group — Datamatics has already got on its rolls 45 people, all of whom are related to JSW employees at Bellary.

“Setting up a greenfield operation in a town has its own set of challenges, and hence, we were keen to have the backing of a strong corporate group. In this case, JSW is also able to give a small management layer to manage these 45 people,” said Mr Rahul Kanodia, Vice- Chairman and CEO of Datamatics told Business Line.

Going forward, the plan is to ramp up this number to 100. From JSW's perspective, it is able to engage relatives of its workers given the limited employment opportunities in a small town like Bellary.

Centres like this will help Datamatics offer aggressive tariffs for its services, especially for price-sensitive Indian customers. This is because manpower costs at Bellary district are 60-70 per cent lower than Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore, said Mr Kanodia, adding that the Bellary centre went live in April this year.

It now caters to three customers who are offered services relating to health claim forms and home loan forms processing. While JSW provides the physical infrastructure for the project, the technology training and quality management will be from Datamatics.

Once Datamatics tastes success with the Bellary centre, it will replicate this model in other towns. It is said to be toying with the idea of starting operations at two other locations as part of a contingency plan.

The JSW Group is not completely new to running a back office unit. Three years back, the JSW Foundation had set up Datahalli, a rural BPO initiative with its first unit in Bellary. Mr Kanodia has clarified that Datamatics is not engaged with Datahalli.

The Hindu Business Line (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2010/11/09/stories/2010110951670700.htm)

Akash

Do you know the software exports in crores from Mysore and Mangalore. You know that Mysore overtook Mangalore two years ago.What are the latest figures?

^^
http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article876859.ece
Software exports from Tier-II cities in the State (tamil nadu) have gone up from Rs.445 crore in 2008-09 to Rs.908 crore in 2009-10, said Minister for Information and Technology Poongothai Aladi Aruna on Tuesday.


http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2007/05/22/stories/2007052201830400.htm
Software exports: Mysore overtakes Mangalore
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Our Bureau

Registers 94% growth with exports worth Rs 760 cr


MR M.N. VIDYASHANKAR (right), Secretary, IT, Bio Technology and Science &Technology, and Mr J. Parthasarathy, Director, Software Technology Parks of India, at a press conference in Bangalore on Monday. — Bhagya Prakash K

Bangalore May 21 Mysore has overtaken Mangalore in software exports with the figure touching Rs 760 crore this year, a growth of 94 per cent, underlining the increasing acceptance of tier-II cities by IT and ITES companies.

Mangalore had a growth of 21 per cent with Rs 681 crore of exports. The State's overall software exports grew 33 per cent during the financial year 2007 at $11.3 billion against $8.3 billion in the previous year. In addition, IT hardware registered exports worth Rs 2,950 crore.

http://www.hindu.com/2008/06/06/stories/2008060651900300.htm
Software exports hover around Rs. 1,100 cr.

Laiqh A. Khan

‘Companies in Mysore register increase in exports of nearly 44 per cent compared to last fiscal’

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MYSORE: Software worth around Rs. 1,100 crore was exported from Mysore during the financial year 2007-08.

J. Parthasarathy, outgoing Director of Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), Bangalore, told The Hindu that software companies in Mysore, had registered an increase in exports of about 44 per cent to touch Rs. 1,100 crore from the Rs. 760 crore recorded last year.


Mysore alone beats all tier 2 cities of TN together..

Akash

Do you know the software exports in crores from Mysore and Mangalore. You know that Mysore overtook Mangalore two years ago.What are the latest figures?

Ajay,I have no idea about the present statistics,major IT Cos like Wipro,Infosys,L&T have increased their intake over the years,Software paradigms is expanding its business in mysore,software exports were 1200+ in 2008,now definitely would have registered an increase.
Wipro SEZ is coming up in Belagola,Mysore-Mandya border,there are few more IT/ITES SEZs coming up in Mysore-Gopalan Hardware sez(u/c),SP Infocity,opto circuits sez(nanjangud) to name a few

Mangalore Infosys sez is the biggest in Karnataka outside Bangalore- 25000 seater coming up at madipu.Mangalore registered about 650-750 crores during 2007, not sure though read it long time back in one of the articles.
Wipro sez in belagola,Mysore, is going to be a huge campus.

Ajay,I have no idea about the present statistics,major IT Cos like Wipro,Infosys,L&T have increased their intake over the years,Software paradigms is expanding its business in mysore,software exports were 1200+ in 2008,now definitely would have registered an increase.???
Wipro SEZ is coming up in Belagola,Mysore-Mandya border,there are few more IT/ITES SEZs coming up in Mysore-Gopalan Hardware sez(u/c),SP Infocity,opto circuits sez(nanjangud) to name a few

Mangalore Infosys sez is the biggest in Karnataka outside Bangalore- 25000 seater coming up at madipu.Mangalore registered about 650-750 crores during 2007, not sure though read it long time back in one of the articles.
Wipro sez in belagola,Mysore, is going to be a huge campus.

2008-2009 figures -
Exports from Bangalore accounted for over 97 per cent of the State’s software exports. Mr. Naidu added that the State had made “serious efforts” to enable development of the industry in Tier II and Tier III cities such as Mangalore, Mysore, Shimoga, Belgaum and Hubli. While exports from Mysore amounted to Rs. 1,374 crore (an increase of 36 per cent), exports from Mangalore grew at 59 per cent amounting to Rs. 644 crore.

Source: Hindu (http://www.hindu.com/2009/09/02/stories/2009090254840600.htm)


Does that mean Mangalore software exports are dipping?? :?

2008-2009 figures -
Exports from Bangalore accounted for over 97 per cent of the State’s software exports. Mr. Naidu added that the State had made “serious efforts” to enable development of the industry in Tier II and Tier III cities such as Mangalore, Mysore, Shimoga, Belgaum and Hubli. While exports from Mysore amounted to Rs. 1,374 crore (an increase of 36 per cent), exports from Mangalore grew at 59 per cent amounting to Rs. 644 crore.

Source: Hindu (http://www.hindu.com/2009/09/02/stories/2009090254840600.htm)


Does that mean Mangalore software exports are dipping?? :?

the growth rate is 59%..this means its growing..or else it wud hav been -ve..its just that mysore had a higher growth raate..the exports of both cities r increasing..its jst that mysore had a higher growth rate..

the growth rate is 59%..this means its growing..or else it wud hav been -ve..its just that mysore had a higher growth raate..the exports of both cities r increasing..its jst that mysore had a higher growth rate..

catchshash,

I am comparing the revenues (in crores) in the two articles not the %ages.

For 2008-2009,
exports from Mangalore grew at 59 per cent amounting to Rs. 644 crore.

For 2007-2008,
Mangalore had a growth of 21 per cent with Rs 681 crore of exports

So something fishy in one of the articles :)

^^ wow!! thanks akash for the info.. two questions that how many locals will be employed out of 25k employees?? and when will both the phases will be completed??

Rightly said by Akash, no discrimination or otherwise in this sector :)
If you have the required skills, its good enough.
Its a multi-phased project (based on the prevailing business conditions) currently the phase 2 is underway, and plan is reach 25k seater in 7-8 years from now, if I am not wrong.

catchshash,

I am comparing the revenues (in crores) in the two articles not the %ages.

For 2008-2009,
exports from Mangalore grew at 59 per cent amounting to Rs. 644 crore.

For 2007-2008,
Mangalore had a growth of 21 per cent with Rs 681 crore of exports

So something fishy in one of the articles :)

mysore IT has advantage that software guys can visit IT capital bangalore any day, with cost advantage. no other IT city that close though andhra is making ananthapur. but for mangalore is just another tier 2 city, only but infy hr head mohandas pai. do u see any usp in mangalore for IT? chennai/cochin got IT with beach

mysore IT has advantage that software guys can visit IT capital bangalore any day, with cost advantage. no other IT city that close though andhra is making ananthapur. but for mangalore is just another tier 2 city, only but infy hr head mohandas pai. do u see any usp in mangalore for IT? chennai/cochin got IT with beach

@gentem,

I agree that Mysore has an advantage over Mangalore as far as distance with Bangalore is concerned.

But Mangalore has
- vibrant cosmopolitan nature (local people can speak in different languages)
- almost 100% literacy
- Technically Skilled manpower (around 25 engineering colleges in the vicinity)
- Good English speaking population
- Sea port access (most IT hardware comes through sea route)
- Airport with access with different cities (outside India too)
- Malls, Apartments, etc of high quality

If not these, Infosys would not have planned to expand on such a big scale in Mangalore as SEZ when multiple state governments were wooing them. Remember they set up their first center outside Bangalore in Mangalore 15 year back.

I believe the city is not marketed well enough to attract other IT companies of large scale.

mysore IT has advantage that software guys can visit IT capital bangalore any day, with cost advantage. no other IT city that close though andhra is making ananthapur. but for mangalore is just another tier 2 city, only but infy hr head mohandas pai. do u see any usp in mangalore for IT? chennai/cochin got IT with beach


Mlore has the best of private educational institutes....NITK, Manipal, Nitte etc. So finding talent and resources there for the companies is not a problem :) . Mlore/Udupi has got the highest literacy in the state and its one of the most prosperous districts in karnataka. So for a knowledge/skill driven industry like IT/BT, it does make a lot of sense for companies to set up base in this part of the state. You asked for mangalores USP and i wud say our USP are our "PEOPLE". Mysore i definitely agree has a upper hand coz its close to blore :)...I wud be very happy if both cities emerge as the next host destination for IT and mysoreans get to work in mysore and mloreans in mlore. This Mite Jus give some breather for bangalore :banana:

Mlore has the best of private educational institutes....NITK, Manipal, Nitte etc. So finding talent and resources there for the companies is not a problem :) . Mlore/Udupi has got the highest literacy in the state and its one of the most prosperous districts in karnataka. So for a knowledge/skill driven industry like IT/BT, it does make a lot of sense for companies to set up base in this part of the state. You asked for mangalores USP and i wud say our USP are our "PEOPLE". Mysore i definitely agree has a upper hand coz its close to blore :)...I wud be very happy if both cities emerge as the next host destination for IT and mysoreans get to work in mysore and mloreans in mlore. This Mite Jus give some breather for bangalore :banana:


Just to add to this, Mlore Infosys DC ( Development Center ) always gets the most happening DC award amongst all the other DC's of infosys year on year...

@gentem,

I agree that Mysore has an advantage over Mangalore as far as distance with Bangalore is concerned.

But Mangalore has
- vibrant cosmopolitan nature (local people can speak in different languages)
- almost 100% literacy
- Technically Skilled manpower (around 25 engineering colleges in the vicinity)
- Good English speaking population
- Sea port access (most IT hardware comes through sea route)
- Airport with access with different cities (outside India too)
- Malls, Apartments, etc of high quality

If not these, Infosys would not have planned to expand on such a big scale in Mangalore as SEZ when multiple state governments were wooing them. Remember they set up their first center outside Bangalore in Mangalore 15 year back.

I believe the city is not marketed well enough to attract other IT companies of large scale.

all those u mentioned are there in mysore too.. except for the seaport..
i have one thing to mention..our oil supply is from the OPEC countries which r to our west..oil is supply is essentially through the ports on the west coast..mlore, mumbai, karwar, kochi etc..but most electonic items are manufactured in the south-east asian countries..they r transported to mainly chennai and kolkata sea ports and distributed from there..so most of the IT hardware comes from the east coast.

Mlore has the best of private educational institutes....NITK, Manipal, Nitte etc. So finding talent and resources there for the companies is not a problem :) . Mlore/Udupi has got the highest literacy in the state and its one of the most prosperous districts in karnataka. So for a knowledge/skill driven industry like IT/BT, it does make a lot of sense for companies to set up base in this part of the state. You asked for mangalores USP and i wud say our USP are our "PEOPLE". Mysore i definitely agree has a upper hand coz its close to blore :)...I wud be very happy if both cities emerge as the next host destination for IT and mysoreans get to work in mysore and mloreans in mlore. This Mite Jus give some breather for bangalore :banana:

what ive seen recently is that most companies go to all colleges and recruit one or two toppers of that college..so it doesnt matter if the local colleges are there to feed in students..but yes labor is necessarily recruited from the local areas..so it will be a boost for the local laborers if manufacturing units are set up..

what ive seen recently is that most companies go to all colleges and recruit one or two toppers of that college..so it doesnt matter if the local colleges are there to feed in students..but yes labor is necessarily recruited from the local areas..so it will be a boost for the local laborers if manufacturing units are set up..

I agree to disagree on this :). Most Indian s/w companies specially the top 3 i.e infy tcs wipro prefers to recruit students in bulk rather than goin to a coll and selecting jus a couple of them. I remember a a few years ago infy recruiting more than 250 students from PESIT ( but most of them dint join infy as they ended up wit much better offers :banana: ). Ur statement mite hold true for some of the US product companies like microsoft, cisco , juniper etc that visit tier-1 colleges like NITK, MIT, SJCE, RVCE and select just a handful of them. and if u talking abt local labourers of the lowest level, all labour in those forms ( be in in construction industry or agriculture ) comes from the northen belt of karnataka and they all are fondly called as bijapuris :)

all those u mentioned are there in mysore too.. except for the seaport..
i have one thing to mention..our oil supply is from the OPEC countries which r to our west..oil is supply is essentially through the ports on the west coast..mlore, mumbai, karwar, kochi etc..but most electonic items are manufactured in the south-east asian countries..they r transported to mainly chennai and kolkata sea ports and distributed from there..so most of the IT hardware comes from the east coast.


Anyways mysore vs mangalore, as usual it doesn go anywhere and ends up ugly :bash:..... Lets stop it here. :nuts:

Anyways mysore vs mangalore, as usual it doesn go anywhere and ends up ugly :bash:..... Lets stop it here. :nuts:

ya..u r rite..but then check ur facts..most harware comes from chennai..east coast..not the west coast..we hav only OPEC in the west..no elcec intensive country..

@gentem,

I agree that Mysore has an advantage over Mangalore as far as distance with Bangalore is concerned.

But Mangalore has
- vibrant cosmopolitan nature (local people can speak in different languages)
- almost 100% literacy
- Technically Skilled manpower (around 25 engineering colleges in the vicinity)
- Good English speaking population
- Sea port access (most IT hardware comes through sea route)
- Airport with access with different cities (outside India too)
- Malls, Apartments, etc of high quality

If not these, Infosys would not have planned to expand on such a big scale in Mangalore as SEZ when multiple state governments were wooing them. Remember they set up their first center outside Bangalore in Mangalore 15 year back.

I believe the city is not marketed well enough to attract other IT companies of large scale.

it hardware transport cost hardly matters. but beach for recreation matters. infy is there already is a usp :) and well connected airport. but say kochi has all these.

Mlore has the best of private educational institutes....NITK, Manipal, Nitte etc. So finding talent and resources there for the companies is not a problem :) . Mlore/Udupi has got the highest literacy in the state and its one of the most prosperous districts in karnataka. So for a knowledge/skill driven industry like IT/BT, it does make a lot of sense for companies to set up base in this part of the state. You asked for mangalores USP and i wud say our USP are our "PEOPLE". Mysore i definitely agree has a upper hand coz its close to blore :)...I wud be very happy if both cities emerge as the next host destination for IT and mysoreans get to work in mysore and mloreans in mlore. This Mite Jus give some breather for bangalore :banana:

dont talk like a fan boy. just introspect why IT hasnt taken off in mangalore yet. local colleges dont matter as students are not local.

catchshash,

I am comparing the revenues (in crores) in the two articles not the %ages.

For 2008-2009,
exports from Mangalore grew at 59 per cent amounting to Rs. 644 crore.

For 2007-2008,
Mangalore had a growth of 21 per cent with Rs 681 crore of exports

So something fishy in one of the articles :)


I guess there must be a typo error in the statement 'exports from Mangalore grew at 59 per cent amounting to Rs. 644 crore'
What it probably meant to say was that there is a 59% growth on the previous year’s figures of 644 Crores.
On this presumption the figures will look as below:

For the Year 2008-09
Mysore: 1374 Crores
Mangalore:1023 Crores

Which most likely seems to be the case.
I may be wrong.

Going by the above estimate MYS has a slight lead when compared to Mangalore in IT sector, but exact figures from reliable sources will be better.


The statement that IT has not taken off in Mangalore is absolutely hollow.

I guess there must be a typo error in the statement 'exports from Mangalore grew at 59 per cent amounting to Rs. 644 crore'
What it probably meant to say was that there is a 59% growth on the previous year’s figures of 644 Crores.
On this presumption the figures will look as below:

For the Year 2008-09
Mysore: 1374 Crores
Mangalore:1023 Crores

Which most likely seems to be the case.
I may be wrong.

Going by the above estimate MYS has a slight lead when compared to Mangalore in IT sector, but exact figures from reliable sources will be better.


The statement that IT has not taken off in Mangalore is absolutely hollow.

u r rite..:)
but im worried abt wht happens if we hav a depression in the future..
i mean companies must tender to domestic needs..or some multinational software company will take over the domestic sector..nd its very difficult for any indian company to participate..

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2007/05/22/stories/2007052201830400.htm
Software exports: Mysore overtakes Mangalore
Tuesday, May 22, 2007Our Bureau

Registers 94% growth with exports worth Rs 760 cr


MR M.N. VIDYASHANKAR (right), Secretary, IT, Bio Technology and Science &Technology, and Mr J. Parthasarathy, Director, Software Technology Parks of India, at a press conference in Bangalore on Monday. — Bhagya Prakash K

Bangalore May 21 Mysore has overtaken Mangalore in software exports with the figure touching Rs 760 crore this year, a growth of 94 per cent, underlining the increasing acceptance of tier-II cities by IT and ITES companies.

Mangalore had a growth of 21 per cent with Rs 681 crore of exports. The State's overall software exports grew 33 per cent during the financial year 2007 at $11.3 billion against $8.3 billion in the previous year. In addition, IT hardware registered exports worth Rs 2,950 crore.



http://www.hindu.com/2009/09/02/stories/2009090254840600.htm
Karnataka software exports not hit by global economic slowdown
Special Correspondent
An increase of 23 per cent recorded over previous year
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Wednesday, Sep 02, 2009State’s exports worth Rs. 74,929 cr. in 2008-09
State maintains its share in overall software exports from the country at 35 p.c.
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Bangalore: Software exports from Karnataka amounted to Rs. 74,929 crore in 2008-09, an increase of 23 per cent over the previous year.

Announcing the results, based on a compilation of data submitted by companies to the Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), the Karnataka State Information Technology Minister, Katta Subramanya Naidu, said Karnataka had maintained its share in overall software exports from India at 35 per cent despite “recessionary pressures.” He said the growth demonstrated that the knowledge sector has “remained unaffected by the recession”. “Karnataka has retained the top position despite the pressures.”

Bangalore, key player


Exports from Bangalore accounted for over 97 per cent of the State’s software exports. Mr. Naidu added that the State had made “serious efforts” to enable development of the industry in Tier II and Tier III cities such as Mangalore, Mysore, Shimoga, Belgaum and Hubli. While exports from Mysore amounted to Rs. 1,374 crore (an increase of 36 per cent), exports from Mangalore grew at 59 per cent amounting to Rs. 644 crore.

first report is may 07, so that is 2006-07 figure of 681 crore (up 21%)
first report is sept 09, so that is 2008-09 figure of 644 crore (up 59%)

so one year is missing in btw 2 reports, got it Dex? financial year 2007 means 2006-07. So reports dont contradict. may 07 report cant tell about 2007-08..

catchshash,

I am comparing the revenues (in crores) in the two articles not the %ages.

For 2008-2009,
exports from Mangalore grew at 59 per cent amounting to Rs. 644 crore.

For 2007-2008, - this should be 2006-07 - gentem
Mangalore had a growth of 21 per cent with Rs 681 crore of exports

So something fishy in one of the articles :)
nothing fishy here, dex mistook 1 year.

so by calculation using second report mangalore exports were 644 - 59%,that is 405 crores for the year 2007-08. so here is the final figures for mangalore:

2006-07 figure of 681 crore (up 21%) - hindu (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2007/05/22/stories/2007052201830400.htm)
2007-08 figure of 405 crore - gentem's calculation :)
2008-09 figure of 644 crore (up 59%) - hindu (http://www.hindu.com/2009/09/02/stories/2009090254840600.htm)

year -- mangalore -- mysore -- hubli

2005-06 -- 562* -- 394 -- 5
2006-07 -- 681 -- 760 -- 8 -- (hindu "overtakes" (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2007/05/22/stories/2007052201830400.htm))
2007-08 -- 405* -- 1100 - hindu (http://www.hindu.com/2008/06/06/stories/2008060651900300.htm)
2008-09 -- 644 -- 1374 (hindu (http://www.hindu.com/2009/09/02/stories/2009090254840600.htm))

* gentem calculations: 562 = 681 - 21% and 405 = 644 - 59%
other figures are explicitly mentioned in 3 reports above

year -- mangalore -- mysore -- hubli

2005-06 -- 562* -- 394 -- 5
2006-07 -- 681 -- 760 -- 8 -- (hindu "overtakes" (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2007/05/22/stories/2007052201830400.htm))
2007-08 -- 405* -- 1100 - hindu (http://www.hindu.com/2008/06/06/stories/2008060651900300.htm)
2008-09 -- 644 -- 1374 (hindu (http://www.hindu.com/2009/09/02/stories/2009090254840600.htm))

* gentem calculations: 562 = 681 - 21% and 405 = 644 - 59%
other figures are explicitly mentioned in 3 reports above

So it means that there was a drop in IT exports in Mangalore between 2006-07 and 2007-08. :ohno:
Also in the final figure, Mysore's figures are more than double that of Mangalore's, which seems to be far too high. It is possible that Mysore may lead Mangalore (Marginally) in the IT sector, but not on this scale (More than double).
Since there is some ambiguity in the data, we can only guess.:)

17 Feb, 2008, 02.30AM IST, M Rochan,TNN
Mangalore takes over as the new SEZ destination

MANGALORE: While all the infotech majors flocked to Bangalore and turned it into India’s Silicon Valley, a city just 350 km away — Mangalore — failed to woo them.

Realty prices, including commercial offices, skyrocketed in the Garden City but development in Mangalore was slow.

Even Infosys’ entry couldn’t attract its peers. However, the expected development of IT/ ITeS special economic zones SEZs) in and around the city is set to change the landscape.

The city has three notified SEZs — Mangalore SEZ, Suzlon SEZ and Infosys SEZ — and BA Tech Park which has been approved recently.

According to real estate services firm, Cushman & Wakefield (C&W), commercial grade A office space is almost non-existent except for the presence of a handful of companies such as Infosys Technologies, First Indian Corporation and Mphasis.

“Most developers have chosen to create a land bank in the Export Promotional Industrial Park zone, targeting built-to-suit facilities to reduce speculative construction.

This lower risk approach has been adopted due to the high competition expected from other tier II cities in south India such as Coimbatore, Kochi and Mysore,” says Anurag Mathur, joint managing director (India) of C&W.

According to C&W, commercial rental values in the central business district range from Rs 20 to Rs 40 per sq ft a month.

Mangalore, which was earlier developed as a fishing and boat-building town, today offers many more modern facilities and can turn into another IT hub.

The Mangalore Harbour, a modern artificial harbour located 10 km north of the city, handles dry, bulk and fluid cargoes, providing an important gateway to Karnataka.

The port handles 75% of India’s coffee exports and the bulk of its cashew nuts. Three National Highways pass through Mangalore — NH17, NH48 and NH13. The city is also well-connected by air.

The high literacy levels (83%) could also work in its favour.

Even on the residential front, the coastal city has been witnessing major developments. The emerging affluent class has led to a rise in demand for villas.

According to C&W, as of August 2007, rental values in the high-end residential segment were between Rs 6,000 and Rs 7,000 per sq ft a month for a 2BHK apartment and capital values were around Rs 2,000-2,500 per sq ft.

On the other hand, in the mid-segment, rentals were between Rs 3,000 and Rs 5,000 per sq ft per month for a 2BHK apartment, while capital values hovered around Rs 1,700 to Rs 2,000 per sq ft.

Prominent real estate developers of local origin are MohtiSham Complexes, Janata Builders, Inland Builders, Bearys Group, Plama Developers and Presidency Bu-ilders.

The city may soon witness a retail boom. Leading Bangalore developers who have land banked in Mangalore for future development include Nitesh Estates, RMZ Corp and Raheja Group. Other Bangalore-based firms Skyline Constructions,

Puravankara Projects and Sobha Developers too have projects in Mangalore.

Mangalore has about five malls planned over the next two years with one already operational. Established retail precincts include Hampankatta and Balmatta; while MG Road & KS Rao Road are the emerging retail destinations within the city.

Incidentally, the first integrated retail development in the city was the Sai Bean Shopping Complex completed in 1992.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/features/the-sunday-et/property/Mangalore-takes-over-as-the-new-SEZ-destination/articleshow/2788712.cms

a 2008 report. kochi and mysore are formidable rivals. mostly kochi eats mangalore's investments as it got beach and every other usp mangalore got..

mysore got 4 sez's, SPI city, infosys campus, recently approved wipro-belagola and gopalan park koorgalli.

mysore got 4 sez's, SPI city, infosys campus, recently approved wipro-belagola and gopalan park koorgalli.

Opto circuits-electronic hardware sez,forthcoming one includes Brigade sez

Software exports from Kerala grows 43 percent
27 March 2009 06:46:38 PM by IANS ( Leave a comment )

Thiruvananthapuram, March 27 (IANS) While India’s overall software exports have slowed down on account of the global slowdown, those from Kerala grew 43.41 percent till February-end, fetching a revenue of Rs.2,300 crore.
“While the STPI (Software Technology Parks India) figures for the country show a growth of 17.62 percent till February-end this fiscal, software exports from Kerala have grown at 43.41 percent,” said an IT department official who did not wish to be identified.

According to him, software exports from the state touched Rs.1,750 crore for 2007-08.

all kerala (http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/business/software-exports-from-kerala-grows-43-percent_100172177.html)2008-09 exports 2430 crore (cochi + trivendrum)
managalore+mysore (http://www.hindu.com/2009/09/02/stories/2009090254840600.htm) for same year 2000 crore
TN tier 2 cities (http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article876859.ece) for 2009-10 is 908 crore



so if u consider only one single tier 2 city, it is most likely mysore is india leader or possibly trivendrum. kerala made mistake by dividing infopark and technopark between two cities instead of promoting one single city..

add Bhubaneswar stood at Rs 1,023 crore, down 11.96 per cent and those from Gandhinagar at Rs 1,150 crore, for 2009-10, trailing behind mysore.. http://smartinvestor.in/market/story-37926-storydet-Kolkata_IT_growth_in_positive_trajectory.htm kolkata at 5,400 crore is almost a tier 2 city :lol:

The IT ship drops anchor in Mangalore
Published: Sunday, Nov 21, 2010, 10:05 IST
By M Raghuram | Place: Mangalore | Agency: DNA

Mangalore may be looking to rival Bangalore and Pune as India’s IT destination of choice. DNA reports that a conservative society and moral vigilantes mean techies aren’t loving it.

Call it the beauty of globalisation. If we are able to eat a bunch of Australian grapes sitting in Bangalore, it is also possible for a casino in Las Vegas to use software developed by a small software company working from a corner in Mangalore.

It is not just the big cities thriving in the IT boom. Even small companies in small cities like Mangalore are enjoying their tryst with the multi-billion dollar industry.

“There are over 55 small registered companies in Mangalore and their products have more commercial value in applications like gaming, airline management, mobile phone applications, financial acquisition and banking, “ says Naren K, a team leader in a leading software company in Mangalore.

While IT giant Infosys has over 6,000 software engineers in its Mangalore establishment, small companies that are growing at an appreciable speed. In all, they employ over 3,000 engineers, most of them working from home in secure network environments and others from the Software Technology Park and offices in malls and complexes across the city. Highly secretive about their products, work environment and clientele, IT professionals have no hesitation in calling Mangalore the state’s second IT hub.

“Adjusting to an ever-changing business environment and prevailing market situations is a big challenge, especially about few niche products. But we took advantage of the technology license from our principals in the US and Germany and what we have now is a total monopoly in high speed printing software,” says Joseph Miranda, who started his own company in Mangalore.

“Since our operations are small but highly targeted and regimented, there is no fear of piracy. Big companies do not share this advantage,” he added.

There are micro companies connected to the US, Germany, Italy, Japan, China, the UK and Australia that have not only outsourced their work to Mangalorean companies but also assigned them to create niche products. One of the companies has created software for robotics applications which helps a group of Chinese toymakers paint their toys.

Another company in Newcastle (England) has assigned a Mangalorean company, which has just two engineers, to create software that helps wash coal for a thermal power project in England.

“I am sure our product will be a hit among all other countries producing thermal power using this technology,” said Arun Goswamy, who is working on this technology.

With a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) coming up in Mangalore, software companies have queued up to open shop in the city. According to the industry department, 170 small software companies have applied for licences to work from Mangalore and also requested for land, power, water and other utilities. “These production facilities will be cleared on a priority basis,” said the deputy commissioner of Dakshina Kannada, Subodh Yadav.

But even though the city is home to over 15,000 IT professionals, the effect on high cost services, commodities, housing and transport has not taken place as it did in Bangalore or Pune. Being a socially conservative city, Mangalore lost some of its nightlife after the Ram Sene attacks in 2008.

“After working for 16 to 17 hours, six days a week, every week we need some form of relaxation. But in Mangalore I heard it is a crime to fraternise with boys or down a couple of beers at local hotels. I am petrified at the prospect of being beaten up in public. So I just do some shopping, eat in expensive hotels and am satisfied,” says Nimmi Ashok, a techie.

“I don’t even spend 20 per cent of my income in Mangalore. There are no places where you can freak out. So, every month, I go to Bangalore, where there are pubs and discotheques by the dozen. My Yamaha R1 takes me to Bangalore quickly and my employers give me two compensatory offs every month. I club it with two regular offs and take four days off in a month and spend quality time in Bangalore,” said Rakshit Rao, a techie from Bangalore, working in Mangalore.

“The SEZ will take care of it, we will have quality FEC’s (Family Entertainment Centres) stag clubs, bowling allies and fitness centres inside the SEZ. That will satisfy IT professionals,” said a senior official of the Mangalore SEZ commissionerate.

Dr Ravichandran of Diya Systems said, “The IT sector has started looking at Mangalore with new interest. But there is little we can offer at this point in time. This is a highly urbane industry. But we have, in Mangalore, pristine beaches and eco-tourism centres which will have to attract IT professionals in the way they want.”

Yathish Baikampady, CEO of the Panambur Beach Tourism Development Project, said: “We are planning to develop some beaches that will be extremely clean with modern watersports facilities, safe and replete with adequate facilities for fun and food. One of the beaches at Panambur is already attracting a number of IT professionals after we have introduced a few attractions.”

However, the excise department is not willing to give licences to beer taverns on the beach and a number of other bureaucratic hurdles still prevent the beaches from being user-friendly.

“The techies do not need hassles. They do not have time for anxious moments when they go out for fun. Neither are they the kind to get into arguments with the local people. That is why we have sensitised our people to be gentle and hospitable with them,” said Baikampady. “This has worked especially in the case of promoting beach tourism in Mangalore, particularly in attracting the IT crowd. But we feel it was not enough, we need help from local authorities.” http://www.dnaindia.com/bangalore/report_the-it-ship-drops-anchor-in-mangalore_1469776

17 Feb, 2008, 02.30AM IST, M Rochan,TNN
Mangalore takes over as the new SEZ destination

According to C&W, as of August 2007, rental values in the high-end residential segment were between Rs 6,000 and Rs 7,000 per sq ft a month for a 2BHK apartment and capital values were around Rs 2,000-2,500 per sq ft.

On the other hand, in the mid-segment, rentals were between Rs 3,000 and Rs 5,000 per sq ft per month for a 2BHK apartment, while capital values hovered around Rs 1,700 to Rs 2,000 per sq ft.

a 2008 report. kochi and mysore are formidable rivals.

What are they talking about ?? :nuts:

^^ c&w are reputed ppl.. that is high-end and mid-segment.. did u miss that, again? :)

According to C&W, as of August 2007, rental values in the high-end residential segment were between Rs 6,000 and Rs 7,000 per sq ft a month for a 2BHK apartment

Where did these people get this figure from????
An average 2BHK flat will be from 800 to 1500 Sq. feet.
Then the monthly rent for this kind of flats will work out from 4800000 to 9000000. :nuts:

i think they meant the purchase rates.. i really doubt their credibility..or the reporter's for making such a blunder..:lol:

year -- mangalore -- mysore -- hubli

2005-06 -- 562* -- 394 -- 5
2006-07 -- 681 -- 760 -- 8 -- (hindu "overtakes" (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2007/05/22/stories/2007052201830400.htm))
2007-08 -- 405* -- 1100 - hindu (http://www.hindu.com/2008/06/06/stories/2008060651900300.htm)
2008-09 -- 644 -- 1374 (hindu (http://www.hindu.com/2009/09/02/stories/2009090254840600.htm))

* gentem calculations: 562 = 681 - 21% and 405 = 644 - 59%
other figures are explicitly mentioned in 3 reports above

Sounds reasonable. Although I am not sure of reason behind Mangalore`s revenue dropping so drastically in 2007-2008. :?

^^ that can happen when a exports depends mostly on single major source that is infy sez

^^ c&w are reputed ppl.. that is high-end and mid-segment.. did u miss that, again? :)

I am aware of C&W,CB Richard Ellis, Knight Frank, JLL , et al...

I am sure such prices for rental are not quoted for high-end or mid-segment anywhere...:)

This time its a miss from them not me :lol:

i think they meant the purchase rates.. i really doubt their credibility..or the reporter's for making such a blunder..:lol:

They are not purchase rates, and they have quoted it separately as capital values (which sounds reasonable BTW). I do not doubt their credibility as they are one of the top names when it comes to Real Estate consultants.

do anybody tell rent in terms of per sqft? even i missed to see that as 5000 looked reasonable rent to me for a 2 bhk flat..

do anybody tell rent in terms of per sqft? even i missed to see that as 5000 looked reasonable rent to me for a 2 bhk flat..

Yes, infact they are always quoted in per sq ft. You may notice that the commercial rental (Rs. 20 to 40) was also quoted in per sq ft.

So it means that there was a drop in IT exports in Mangalore between 2006-07 and 2007-08. :ohno:
Also in the final figure, Mysore's figures are more than double that of Mangalore's, which seems to be far too high. It is possible that Mysore may lead Mangalore (Marginally) in the IT sector, but not on this scale (More than double).
Since there is some ambiguity in the data, we can only guess.:)

Mangalore and Mysore have always been neck to neck with respect to IT exports.Mysore definitely overtook Mangalore but the difference will be a few hundred crores. I have been trying to get the figures online but so far not succeeded.Mangalore was placed 10'th ot 11'th in the NASSCOM DATABSE .TVM was one place ahead of Mangalore. Another article states that 150 companies have applied for licences Is that the combined figure for Ganjimatt,Mudipu and Thumbay . I am very pleased for Mysore and Mangalore coming up the ladder.Both cities have their own distinct charm.

year -- mangalore -- mysore -- hubli

2005-06 -- 562* -- 394 -- 5
2006-07 -- 681 -- 760 -- 8 -- (hindu "overtakes" (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2007/05/22/stories/2007052201830400.htm))
2007-08 -- 405* -- 1100 - hindu (http://www.hindu.com/2008/06/06/stories/2008060651900300.htm)
2008-09 -- 644 -- 1374 (hindu (http://www.hindu.com/2009/09/02/stories/2009090254840600.htm))

* gentem calculations: 562 = 681 - 21% and 405 = 644 - 59%
other figures are explicitly mentioned in 3 reports above



all kerala (http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/business/software-exports-from-kerala-grows-43-percent_100172177.html)2008-09 exports 2430 crore (cochi + trivendrum)
managalore+mysore (http://www.hindu.com/2009/09/02/stories/2009090254840600.htm) for same year 2000 crore
TN tier 2 cities (http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article876859.ece) for 2009-10 is 908 crore



so if u consider only one single tier 2 city, it is most likely mysore is india leader or possibly trivendrum. kerala made mistake by dividing infopark and technopark between two cities instead of promoting one single city..

add Bhubaneswar stood at Rs 1,023 crore, down 11.96 per cent and those from Gandhinagar at Rs 1,150 crore, for 2009-10, trailing behind mysore.. http://smartinvestor.in/market/story-37926-storydet-Kolkata_IT_growth_in_positive_trajectory.htm kolkata at 5,400 crore is almost a tier 2 city :lol:

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2009/09/02/stories/2009090250361700.htm
Karnataka software exports rise 23%

Our Bureau

Bangalore, Sept 1 Notwithstanding the global economic slowdown, revenue from software exports in Karnataka grew 23 per cent to Rs 74,929 crore for 2008-09, and constituted 34 per cent of the national software export earnings.

The IT Minister of Karnataka, Mr Katta Subramanya Naidu, and the Software Technology Parks of India (STPI)-Bangalore Director, Ms R. Rajalakshmi, said the sector employed 5.54 lakh people in 2008-09, up from 5.2 lakh people during 2007-08.

During the period, 84 software units were added, which included 35 foreign equity companies, two Indian major and 47 small and medium enterprises, taking the total approved STP units to 2085 and electronic hardware technology park (EHTP) units to 68.

However, hardware exports have declined to Rs 2,889 crore in 2008-09, compared to Rs 3,100 crore the previous year.

“The growth shows that the sector has remained unaffected by the recession,” said Mr Naidu. Potential Tier II cities such as Mysore, Mangalore, Manipal and Hubli have contributed Rs 2,423 crore of revenue from 102 software units.

Mysore + Mangalore = 1374+644 = 2018
so manipal(robosoft)+hubli = 400 crore..

karnataka tier 2 cities equal to whole of kerala.. kerala where they cut hands off a professor etc..

http://www.karnatakaindustry.gov.in/documents/Formally%20Approved%20SEZs.pdf

full list of sezs in karnataka

So, here's the IT ranking:

1. Bangalore
2. Chennai
3. Hyderabad
4. Noida Gurgaon
5. Pune Mumbai (thanks to congress govt)
6. Kolkata (5000 crore)
7. Mysore/Trivendrum (1300 crore)

^^ have you taken noida gurgaon combined?? if yes then surely they will be at 2

because gurgaon exports were-around 18,900 cr last yr source (http://www.s7news.com/story/79)

and noida 10,000 cr(for first six months of last yr) so it would be around same 18-19,000 cr source (http://www.telegraphindia.com/1091209/jsp/business/story_11840826.jsp)

^^ those figures are from different sources.. not correct to add them up. Noida/gurgaon same as they belong to NCR, and closer than mumbai-pune :)

^^ but noida is not in haryana

So, here's the IT ranking:

1. Bangalore
2. Chennai
3. Hyderabad
4. Noida Gurgaon
5. Pune Mumbai (thanks to congress govt)
6. Kolkata (5000 crore)
7. Mysore/Trivendrum (1300 crore)

Chandigarh around 900 crores + Mohali around 400 crores.

Marlabs Mysore -Global Delivery office

http://www.marlabs.com/about/images/company-snapshot.jpg

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5284/5228660021_6573d45445_b.jpg

cc marlabs

http://www.marlabs.com/about/global-offices.html

Robosoft Technologies - Udupi city


http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/4339/robosoftudupiag4.jpg


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2213/2370761574_11eabc2522_o.jpg

Source (http://www.flickr.com/photos/samriddhi1584/2370761574/sizes/o/)

http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/3756/robosoftinsidefu5.jpg

http://www.robosoftin.com/aboutus/

I found this on the Kochi thread

Someone has done research and found that Mangalore has IT exports of 1000 crores



Kerala IT exports during Mar 2010 stood at around 2600 - 2800 Crores and I think Kochi's share is 1200 crores.

Definitely Madurai,Trichy and Vijayawada are not a competition to Kochi but cities like CBE,Mysore,Mangalore,Vizag and Chandigarh are all in 1000 crores range and good competition to Kochi.

I think my personal perception is Kochi is more Cosmopolitan than Trivandrum and many Indian biggies would have shown more Interest in Kochi if land is available eventhough trivandrum has more R&D culture

Hubli, Dec. 15

The Government is exploring ‘lease-cum-sell' model to fill up the IT Park in Hubli which is at present less than half full.

The district administration, which constituted a panel headed by the Deputy Commissioner of Dharwad, is learnt to have come up with measures to reactivate the IT park.

The IT Park, Hubli, has 1,72,405 sq ft of office space and 60 shops. The current occupancy level of IT Park, Hubli is said to be around 47 per cent and 24 shops were occupied.

“To fill up the IT Park, Hubli, the panel suggested at the meeting that 30,000-40,000 sq ft of office space be reserved for small and medium (SME) IT enterprises or employment creating IT enterprises in Hubli,” said a panel member, who did not wish to be identified.

The panel has also suggested that the un-utilised space of 80,000 square feet at the Park, should either by rented out or follow the “lease-cum-sell” model.

It also recommended to the State Government to set up IT Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Hubli or Dharwad as it has been carried out in Mangalore for IT and textile SEZ in Hassan.

Also the Government should aggressively formulate and revise the State IT policy by focusing ‘Beyond Bangalore' and offer tax incentives to companies to set up campuses in tier-II and III cities.

The panel was constituted following a visit to the Park by the Chief Minister, Mr B S Yeddyurappa and his Cabinet colleagues, members of parliament and local MLAs in August.

Mr Yeddyurappa is learnt to have sought details from the district administration on the low occupancy of the Park.

The Chief Minister then asked the Deputy Commissioner and the district-in-charge Minister of Dharwad to hold a meeting of IT experts and trade from the region to take a decision and submit a detail report to the government.

http://www.blonnet.com/2010/12/16/stories/2010121652651900.htm

Infosys Land Acquisition in Kairangala Gets HC Nod

Daijiworld Media Network – Bangalore (SP)

Bangalore, Dec 16: The High Court has given its stamp of approval to the notification issued by Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB), acquiring 311 acres of land near Kairangala in Bantwal taluk in Dakshina Kannada district.

Leo D’Souza, a resident of Kairangala, had filed a writ petition in the High Court, seeking quashing of the land acquisition process set into motion by KIADB, to set up a campus of Infosys Technologies Ltd there. He had also requested to denotify this land. Justice Shylendra Kumar, who heard the petitioners and defendants, gave the green signal to KIADB.

Leo D’Souza had earlier approached Dakshina Kannada District Land Disputes Appellate Authority, seeking denotification of lands standing in survey Nos 112/6, a, b, c, and 115/A. The authority had dismissed his petition, citing the reason that the land had been acquired for public purposes.

Daijiworld (http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=91789&n_tit=Bangalore%3A+Infosys+Land+Acquisition+in+Kairangala+Gets+HC+Nod)

K'taka emerges as best state for biotechnology
BS Reporter / Chennai/bangalore December 18, 2010, 0:50 IST

Karnataka has been awarded as the best state for the growth of the biotechnology industry in India in the Biospectrum state of the year category this year on the back of higher investment flow to the state.

The award instituted by Biospectrum magazine honours the best personalities, companies and products every year.

“Karnataka has an edge over other states in attracting investments due to favourable policy environment in the state. Millennium Biotech Policy II, and support of the industry-academia group are some of the initiatives by the state to drive the growth of the industry,” a press statement said.

Similarly, Bangalore based Biotech company, Biocon has been selected as the best biopharma company in the country. The promoter of Biocon, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw has also won the Biospectrum Leadership award.

“Biocon is back at the top of the BioSpectrum-ABLE ranking as the number one company after conceding that slot to Pune’s Serum Institute for the last four years,” the statement said.

In tune with recognising various companies in this sector, Biospectrum person of the year award had gone to Glenn Saldanha of Glenmark Pharmaceuticals and Biospectrum entrepreneur of the year award has been awarded to Rashmi Barbhaiya of Advinus Therapeutics.

The award committee has selected Cry1c gene of Metahelix Life Sciences in the best product category.

“Cry1c gene from Metahelix Life Sciences received the approval from GEAC for its use in two Bt cotton hyb-rids, MH5125 Bt and MH5174 Bt, in June 2009. This first commercial gene develo-ped solely by a private Indian company offers the cotton plant double protec-tion against two pests - bollworms and spodoptera,” the release added.

Recently, Rallis India has bought majority stake in Metahelix Life Sciences for around Rs 100 crore.

Biospectrum also honoured Obaid Siddiqi, the founder director of National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore with the Life Time Achievement Award 2010 for his pioneering work in the fields of microbial genetics and neurogenetics.

“Among others, Dr Siddiqi’s early research on DNA transfer and recombination in bacteria and his work on suppression of ‘nonsense’ mutation in E.coli are some breakthrough contributions,” the release said.

Meantime, Nuziveedu Seeds has been awarded as the best Bioagri company along with Novozymes South Asia as the best bioindustrial company for this year.

Business Standard (http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/ktaka-emerges-as-best-state-for-biotechnology/418700/)

Title should have been Bangalore emerges as the best :). Never mind,biotechnology is set to pervade cities like Mysore and Mangalore in future.

Karnataka is Biotech state of the year (http://expressbuzz.com/cities/bangalore/karnataka-is-biotech-state-of-the-year/232730.html)

Express News Service
First Published : 20 Dec 2010 03:40:18 AM IST
Last Updated :

BANGALORE: Karnataka, which is home to the highest number of biotechnology industries, has been awarded the Biotech State of the Year.

Karnataka emerged as the Biotech State for winning the highest number of BioSpectrumABLE Company Awards conferred by BioSpectrum, a digital and print business magazine. The award recognises the contributions of companies in the biotech sector.

India has 350 biotechnology firms, of which 170 are in Karnataka. They have an annual revenue generation of about `3,000 crore.

A press statement by Biospectrum says it was largely due to the state government's initiatives, including the announcement of Millennium Biotech PolicyII that Karnataka was hailed as the Biotech state of the year.

Arvind Jannu, director, IT BT of Government of Karnataka, received the award.

Biocon Industries, lead by Kiran MazumdarShaw, was conferred the BioSpectrum Leadership Award for making Biocon a successful company with a turnover of halfabillion dollars.

A Bangalore scientist who was the founder director of the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Dr Obaid Siddiqi, was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award 2010 for his pioneering work in the field of microbial genetics and neurogenetics.

List of Bio Tech Companies in Mysore

KAYPEEYES BIOTECH PVT LTD. (http://www.kpsbio.com/aboutus.htm)
306-C, Hebbal Industrial Area, Metagalli Post, Mysore 570016, Karnataka
Website: www.kpsbio.com
Tel: 91-821-4280039

LABLAND BIOTECH PVT LTD.
8th K.M., K.R.S Main Road, Mysore 560016, Karnataka
Website: www.lablandbiotechs.com
Email: info@lablandbiotechs.com
Tel: 91-821-2582682

MURHOPYE SCIENTIFIC COMPANY
B-11, Metagalli, Industrial Estate, Mysore 570016, Karnataka
Website: www.murhopye.com
Email: murhopye@touchtelindia.com
Tel: 91-821-2582235/24280235

SOUTH EAST AGRO
Plot No. 35 Belavadi, Industrial Area, Mysore 570018, Karnataka
Website: www.southeastagro.com
Email: contact@southeastagro.com
Tel: 91-821-2403090

Many more....

The Biggest BIOTECH R&D HUB of India :cheers:

CFTRI http://www.cftri.com/

http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/00015/30BGE_CFTRI_15054f.jpg

DFRL - Defence Food Research Laboratory

Karnataka approves new IT & Electronic hardware policy
PTI

The Karnataka Government today approved the new IT and Electronic Hardware policies to further boost the growth of these sectors, which account for 20 per cent of the state’s Gross Domestic Product.

The new IT Policy 2011 envisages promotion of the information technology industries and innovative parks in Tier II and III cities, Minister for Higher Education V S Acharya told reporters after a cabinet meeting that approved the development.

Karnataka, considered as the IT hub of the country, has achieved Rs 75,000 crore worth exports in software this year, Acharya said.

The government also approved the Karnataka Electronics Hardware Policy and earmarked Rs 25 crore as budgetary allocation for its implementation.

Acharya said the state plans to develop four Electronic Hardware parks in the clusters of Bangalore—Tumkur, Shimoga— Hassan, Hubli—Dharwad and Mysore—Nanjangud.

About 500 to 1,000 acres of land has been identified for the establishment of each of the parks, the minister said.

In a major policy decision, the cabinet decided to withdraw tax exemption granted to tertiary sector activities in the Export Oriented SEZ located in the city.

The tax concession will now be available only to units that are engaged in production of export oriented products, Acharya said.

The Hindu (http://www.thehindu.com/business/article1099773.ece)

Infosys on a hiring spree

Renuka Phadnis

About 1,500 people to be hired in Mangalore every year

‘Space is not a constraint'

New recruits to work from ‘Nethra'

MANGALORE: Infosys Technologies Ltd. in Mangalore may recruit between 1,500 and 2,500 people every year depending on the projects taken up by the Mangalore centre, said Mohandas Pai, Director, Human Resources, Education and Research and Administration, Infosys.

He told The Hindu that “space (to accommodate more staff) is not a constraint”. While not specifying the exact number of recruits to be taken this year for its Mangalore operations, he said the allocation of recruits to Mangalore would be done “depending on local management and on training, which will end next September.”

Mr. Pai said 40 to 50 per cent of the recruits would be from campuses and the rest would be lateral entries “by referrals or otherwise”. He specified that all additional recruits for Mangalore Infosys would be made in the “Nethra” centre, (which is located within the SEZ) as there was no space in the “Mangala” centre of Infosys (which is located in Kottara in the city). The company on Thursday had announced that it intended to recruit 20,000 people in the next fiscal and 18,000 offers to campuses has been made.

The Hindu (http://www.hindu.com/2011/01/19/stories/2011011964100300.htm)

State's new semicon policy (http://www.deccanherald.com/content/132802/states-semicon-policy.html)


The State government has launched the ''Karnataka Semiconductor Policy 2010'' to give an impetus to the growth of semiconductor industries in the State. It is available on website www.bangaloreitbt.in.

The focus of the policy is to attract manufacturing related investments by focusing on 3 key activities — promote Karnataka as semiconductor design hub, attract investments in high-tech semiconductor manufacturing, promote generation and use of green energy (specifically solar energy) and focus on manpower development. To encourage innovation and R&D in chip design, product development, telecom etc., government will set up a ‘Karnataka Fund for Semi Conductor Excellence’ of Rs 10 crore. It will be available to private companies covering up to 50 per cent of their R&D expenses, subject to limit of Rs 10 lakh per unit. The State will provide additional amount Rs 25 crore, towards 26 per cent contribution to ‘KITVEN IT Fund’ for raising funds from market to assist start up semi-conductor units engaged in design and embedded software. It will provide financial assistance to firms for filing IP and investment promotion subsidy for setting up of semi conductor units in Tier-2 cities including Mysore, Mangalore, Hubli in accordance with Karnataka Industrial Policy 2009-14.

State KBio VEN Fund non-starter (http://www.deccanherald.com/content/132806/state-kbio-ven-fund-non.html)


The State government's ambitious plans to set up a Rs 50 crore (US$10 million) Karnataka Biotechnology Venture Fund (KBio VEN Fund), akin to Karnataka Information Technology Venture Fund (KITVEN), to catalyse growth of biotechnology industries has come unstuck and yet to see the light of day.

The State Cabinet, while clearing the revised Millennium Biotech Policy-II in January 2010 had announced a Rs 50 crore venture fund as part of a slew of incentives and monetary support to promote the nascent biotechnology sector in the State. The fund was to be set up in partnership with professional venture capital firms with the State government contributing 26 per cent of the corpus and the balance 74 per cent coming from venture capitalists. The State-government’s nodal funding agency — Karnataka Information Technology Venture (KITVEN) Fund was mandated to raise necessary corpus. However, official sources told Deccan Herald that KBio VEN Fund has not yet taken shape as very process of inviting institutional investors has not been set in motion. Since Sebi guidelines do not allow advertisements calling for participation of prospective investors, sources said they are now in the process of entrusting the task to reputed merchant bankers. Currently identification process of investment bankers is on and it would be a while before they are shortlised and given brief to identify suitable institutional investment partners for the proposed KBio VEN Fund.

While formulating the revised policy, the government had said biotechnology industry is in initial stages and requires active monetary support from government. Further, government said the fund will be used only in certain hitech areas with strong social relevance such as transengics, stem cell biology, bio-manufacturing would only be eligible. Sources said the government’s stake share into KBio VEN Fund kitty would come only after 74 per cent of the corpus is fully raised from private sector. Incidentally, while the growth of biotech exports from Karnataka in 2009-10 touched Rs 815 crore from Rs 600 crore in previous fiscal, the number of biotech industries saw only marginal rise of eight at 195 in 2009-10 as against 187 in previous fiscal.

IonIdea opens up software development centre in Hubli

Hubli, Feb. 8:
IonIdea, an IT services company also present in India, the US and Ukraine, has set up its development centre in Hubli.

Currently, IonIdea's solutions delivery centres are located at Bangalore in India, Fairfax, Virginia, in the US and in Ukraine (Simferopol).

The company plans to use Hubli as an extended delivery centre to Bangalore and later make it an independent centre.

Mr Manohar Joshi, Director, Quality Systems told Business Line, “The Hubli centre will endeavour to deliver global customers projects by leveraging local engineering talent, provide delivery in key tech areas such as Java, J2EE, Microsoft technologies, open source solutions, and verification and validation services.”

Key reasons

The company planned to expand its solutions delivery in India in addition to Bangalore into the tier-II cities, and after shortlisting nearly 10 cities, narrowed down to Hubli in Karnataka.

“The main reason for getting located in Hubli is due to the quality of the engineers, the quality engineering talent available in this region and strength of the various engineering- and computer-science degree colleges located in and around here,” said Mr Joshi.

IonIdea's capital expenditure at Hubli is around Rs 1.5 crore, mainly for setting up the 2,400-sq. ft facility to house 60 seats.

Mr Joshi said, “The Hubli facility is a rental facility at present, and we are starting with 25 to 30 engineers. We have a target to grow to a size of 500 resources in the next two years. The rental facility has a capacity to hold 60 employees.”

“After hiring few engineers locally from Hubli to commence our operations, we have worked out our monthly operational expenses to be between Rs 32 and Rs 35 lakhs,” he added.

He further said, “Our expansion plans in Hubli calls for hiring about 1,000 employees over the next 3-5 years. Our vision is to create an IT campus and engage local talent on cutting-edge technologies working for international clients and assignments.”

The company is planning to collaborate with universities and colleges in the region for employees.

“We plan to replicate our Bangalore experience of working jointly with colleges which include industry-specific training/labs, engage the students for the last 2-3 semesters, and provide exposure on industry trends/tools/techniques,” Mr Joshi.


The Hindu (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/todays-paper/tp-others/tp-states/article1169015.ece)

There a lot of IT wizards from Hubli-Dharwad region yet the IT buzz has not clicked here,hope to see more of it.Tejas network founder- Gururaj Deshpande hails from Hubli,so does Nandan Neilkeni from Infosys studied here.NarayanMurthy's wife Sudha murthy is from Hubli who worked with TELCO.

Quest for the skies

BANGALORE: Aircraft have something called a fuel computer, which helps the fuel system interact with other parts of a plane, including its navigation system and the engine. It also regulates the movement of fuel to maintain the centre of gravity of the plane.

If people move from their seats, the computer recalculates the centre of gravity and moves fuel in the appropriate direction. Before the launch of a new aircraft model, the fuel computer is tested in a rig that is specially designed for it.

For the Airbus A350 that is currently under development, the rig has been created by a company called Quest Global in Bangalore. Quest did everything from conceptualization to building of the rig, including hardware and software.

It took two years to build, has one lakh interconnections, 11 different types of printed circuit boards and 57 km of cables, and was shipped to Airbus's UK location in July last year.

For Ajit Prabhu, 39, and Aravind Melligeri, 41, who founded Quest as an outsourced engineering services company in 1997, such work now is becoming par for the course. They have built a similar rig for the A350's landing gear tests. They are working for the Boeing 787.

If an aircraft part develops a crack, Quest determines whether it should be repaired or replaced. It tests blades, casings and pipings on the exterior of the engine to see if they can withstand the temperature and stress when the plane takes off.

It works with companies like GE, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls Royce, Hamilton Sundstrand, Siemens and Toshiba. And though aerospace accounts for a good proportion of the work, they also work in areas like oil & gas, power turbines, and transportation. "Earlier we used to work with GE at the manager level. Today, we pilot ideas together, we tell them what to do, we work with them to accomplish that," says Prabhu.

Prabhu and Melligeri grew up in the small town of Hubli in Karnataka. Melligeris father died young. Prabhu's father used to lease a fruit tree for Rs 2 a day and made money by selling the fruit. "We come from poor families, studied in a Kannada medium school, sitting on the floor with a slate. The first time I spoke English was in the US," says Prabhu.

Melligeri went on to do engineering at KREC Surathkal and Prabhu at BVB Engineering College in Hubli. Both then headed to the US for higher studies and began working there, Melligeri at Ford and Prabhu with GE. Prabhu was still on his student visa when he thought of starting his own venture.

"I asked my brother in the US to join me, but he said we were there to study, and that if I was determined I could ask Aravind. 'He is as crazy as you are', my brother told me." Prabhu's manager at GE gave Quest its first contract.

The GE business for Quest grew so fast that eventually he hired his own manager in GE. Together they brought GE's process discipline and execution focus into Quest. And they did most of the work out of India, which not only helped lower costs but also enabled a quick scaleup because of the talent available. The Enron trouble hit GE hard and, hence, Quest.

Fortunately, just before that, Quest had received funding from PE firm Carlyle, and that money was used to fund its losses. That episode was a huge learning experience. "We learnt how to manage cash flows, delivery," says Prabhu. Many from their families also chipped in with money at that point, all of which was converted into equity. "It's turned out to be the best return on money for them. Carlyle also exited with a three-time return on their investment," says Prabhu.

In December last year, the $120-million Quest won a $75-million funding from Warburg Pincus, which is being used to exit the early investors, retire the company's debt and make fresh investments. Melligeri is now spearheading an aircraft components manufacturing business and launched a SEZ in Belgaum for that purpose last year. It has a joint venture with Magellan Aerospace for a surface treatment facility and a JV with France's Setforge for a forging facility.

Quest manufactures floor components and door components that go into the A380 and the B787. "We are now investing in people; just hired a UK national as CTO. This business is capital intensive and a longterm play," says Melligeri. The expectation is that over time, customers will ask Quest to do everything from design to manufacture.


TOI (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/Quest-for-the-skies/articleshow/7457946.cms)

Hubli guys again Making Karnataka proud :cheers: I respect them for coming vabck to India and setting up India's first Aerospace SEZ in thier hometowns.:banana:

State attracts Rs 8,253 cr into IT/BT sectors in H1 of FY11
BS Reporter / Chennai/ Bangalore February 24, 2011, 0:04 IST
Karnataka, the leading exporter of software and IT services in the country, has continued to attract global majors to invest in the IT sector this fiscal. For the first six months of the present fiscal, the state has seen an encouraging trend in terms of investments in the sector.

During the six-month period-ended September 2010, the approved investment in the IT sector has touched Rs 8,253 crore. This includes Rs 375 crore by software technology park units, Rs 327 crore by foreign equity companies, Rs 1,140 crore by hardware units and Rs 308 crore by BPO companies, the economic survey of 2010-11 released by the state government ahead of the annual budget for 2011-12 revealed, here on Thursday.

Karnataka is home to 60 per cent of the country’s biotech units. During 2009-10, six projects were cleared through the state level single window clearance committee with an investment of Rs 5,209.30 crore.

According to the economic survey, Karnataka enjoys a unique position in India in the exports of electronics and computer software. In 2009-10, the exports of electronics and computer software from the state accounted for as much as 40 per cent of the country’s exports. Further, Karnataka’s share in India’s total exports of information and communication technology products has remained higher than 25 per cent since 2005-06, the survey report highlighted.

In 2009-10, Karnataka’s exports amounted to about Rs 1,42,871.41 crore or about 13.3 per cent of the country’s overall exports.

Commodities which have more than 5 per cent share in Karnataka’s exports are electronics and computer software at 63.5 per cent, petroleum and petroleum products at 7.7 per cent and gem & jewellery at 12.2 per cent.

BS (http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/state-attracts-rs-8253-cr-into-itbt-sectors-in-h1fy11/426327/)

What about iron ore exports?

Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemcial Ltd a subsidiary of ONGC, would invest INR 5,164 crore, of which INR 4,000 crore would come from loans.


Source (http://www.steelguru.com/indian_news/Oil_PSUs_to_invest_over_INR_74800_crore_in_FY_12/193926.html)

NABROS Launches R&D Center 'NABROS LABS'

NABROS LABS will focus on providing 24/7 client support, research in Neural Technology and an opportunity to develop highly innovative engineering talent

Warrenville, IL (Vocus/PRWEB) February 28, 2011

NABROS, Inc.,a leading provider of breakthrough fixed-cost consulting services that make technology and business solution implementation simple, today announced the launch of their R&D center - NABROS LABS.

The R&D Center extends NABROS' ability to serve client needs on a 24/7 basis, invest in current and future technologies, and provide young engineering talent with an opportunity to innovate.

In partnership with the esteemed B.V. Bhoomaraddi (B.V.B.) College of Engineering and Technology in Hubli, Karnataka, India, NABROS LABS hopes to capture the innovation and imagination of young talent from B.V.B. to develop global products in Neural, Cloud and Mobile domains.

NABROS Founder and Practice Partner Abhi Rajmane said “NABROS LABS is our investment in the future and a belief in the promise of technology to transform lives and solve complex business problems over the next ten to twenty years.The goal of our research and development will be to provide simpler enterprise level solutions to our clients via innovative products and consulting services in these domains”

Prof B. L. Desai, Vice Principal of the B.V.B. College of Engineering and Technology, said the NABROS LABS and B.V.B. joint initiative is “a shining example of innovative collaboration between private industry and academia. The alliance with NABROS encourages our students to use their imagination to ultimately develop products in breakthrough technologies.”

“Academia supports industry with young and imaginative talent, and industry in turn supports academia by providing subject-matter expertise, corporate guidance and visibility into emerging industry trends. It is a Win-Win alliance” said Vice Principal B.L.Desai.

Prof. Desai said Engineering students and the highly qualified B.V.B staff will participate actively in developing new technologies with NABROS.

About NABROS, Inc.

NABROS is the breakthrough pioneer and leading provider of fixed-cost consulting services that challenge the status quo and redefine the traditional consulting modus operandi. Utilizing their proprietary NABROS FX methodology NABROS makes business processes and technology simple for clients to implement and maintain.

NABROS practice areas include:ERP, EDI and Integration, Business optimization, Re-engineering, Turnkey web application development, Accounting/Auditing, Project Management and Computer Telephony Integration. NABROS provides implementation and support consulting services in the above domains.

Headquartered in west suburban Chicago, with offices in New York, Florida, Australia and India, NABROS has grown revenues at a rate 140 percent since its founding in 2002. NABROS cliental constitutes of Fortune 500 firms.


Source (http://www.benzinga.com/press-releases/11/03/p892421/nabros-launches-r-d-center-nabros-labs#ixzz1FK4zGJxx)

Ion idea is out of Hubli,plans withdrawn :ohno:

"The developers who have sought more time to implement their projects, include Mangalore SEZ Ltd , Ansal IT City and Parks Ltd and IFFCO Kisan SEZ Ltd. "

Source : Economic Times (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/services/property-/-cstruction/40-sez-developers-seeks-more-time-to-implement-projects/articleshow/7717489.cms)

Zuari Ind starts land acquisition for K'taka plant

Press Trust of India / New Delhi March 23, 2011, 16:31 IST

Fertiliser-maker Zuari Industries today said it is in the process of acquiring land to set up a Rs 5,000 crore gas-based urea plant in Karnataka with an annual capacity of 1.3 million tonne a year.

"The company has got approval from the Karnataka government to go ahead with the project. We have started the process of acquiring land in Belgaum district," Zuari Industries Executive Vice Chairman HS Bawa told reporters on the sidelines of a press conference.

"The project is estimated at Rs 5,000 crore," and it will be built in Belgaum district, bordering Maharashtra and Goa, which has a gas pipeline running through it, he said. Natural gas is a feedstock for fertiliser plants.
The plant will be built near the Dabhol-Bangalore gas pipeline project, which is expected to complete by 2012-13, he added.

Bawa was here at a ceremony to reposition 21 group companies, including Zuari Industries, led by industrialist Saroj Poddar, under an unified banner -- Adventz.

The Belgaum plant will be commissioned by 2015-16 after the government's new fertiliser investment policy comes into force, he said, hoping the policy will be constructive and it will be investor-friendly.

Apart from Belgaum, Zuari Industries is also looking at land acquisition near Karwar, in Uttar Kannada district of Karnataka, for building a phosphate and customised fertiliser plant at an estimated investment of Rs 700 crore, he noted.

Regarding the conversion of its Goa fertiliser plant from naptha to a gas unit, Bawa said, "By 2012, we are hopeful that the plant will be converted to a gas-based unit with the use of imported liquefied natural gas (LNG) initially".

As and when the domestic gas becomes available, the unit will switch over to gas, he added.

Presently, the Goa plant has the capacity to produce 8,00,000 tonne of phosphate a year. After the revamp, the capacity would rise to 1 million tonne a year.

The country imported 16.17 million tonne fertilisers in April-November this fiscal, almost equal to the total import of 16.38 million tonne during the entire 2009-10.

India meets 85% of its urea requirement through indigenous production, but is largely dependent on imports for meeting the phosphorus and potassium requirement, either as finished fertilisers or raw materials.

Business Standard (http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/zuari-ind-starts-land-acquisition-for-ktaka-plant/129986/on)

Mangalore : MSEZ


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A news for Ajay is that they acknowledge Mangalore to be the fastest growing Non metro of South India which Ajay has always been reiterating :) But rest of the things said in this video are on the safety aspects of MRPL and MSEZ

Suzlon to make REpower turbines at Mangalore plant

CHENNAI, MARCH 25:
Suzlon Energy plans to shortly start making REpower wind turbines at its plant near Mangalore. Suzlon owns about 91 per cent of REpower Systems AG of Germany.

“There are definite plans to make REpower turbines at our Mangalore unit, which will be for the export markets,” Mr Tulsi Tanti, Chairman and Managing Director, Suzlon Energy Ltd, told Business Line over telephone today.

Suzlon has a facility at Padubidri, near Mangalore, which makes rotor blades, nacelles (the part at the top of the tower that holds components such as gears and brakes), nacelle covers and nose cones, with a total capacity of 1,500 MW a year.

Suzlon's plan is to manufacture REpower's 2-MW wind turbines in Mangalore and export them to markets such as the US, Canada, Australia and Brazil. It will source gearboxes from Hansen's plant in Coimbatore (Suzlon is the single largest shareholder in Hansen), rotor blades from the Mangalore unit and generators and control systems from Coimbatore.

Starting manufacture of REpower turbines in India will be a major step for both Suzlon and REpower, as the two companies are looking at ways to cut costs in a highly competitive market with excess capacity. The two had signed an agreement under which Suzlon would support the latter as a sales agent in the US, Australia and New Zealand. Suzlon will use the New Mangalore port to export the turbines.

Announcing its nine-month results for the period ended December 2010, REpower had said that excess capacity in the wind energy market remained high, which was expected to lead to further pressure on prices and margins for onshore wind turbines in 2011.

The company's board had commenced extensive cost-cutting measures, including purchasing components at lower prices in Asia.

“In order to improve its international competitiveness, the company also intends to invest in additional production facilities abroad,” said a release issued by the company after the results.

REpower has three production facilities in Germany and one in China, and makes onshore turbines of 2 MW capacity and offshore turbines of up to 6.15 MW capacity. Suzlon and REpower together have a production capacity of 5,900 MW.

Suzlon's Rs 2 shares were marginally down on the NSE at Rs 45.40.

The Hindu Business Line (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/article1571297.ece?homepage=true)

Suzlon is planning to manufacture turbines at their Padubidri Suzlon SEZ

JBF Industries to set up PTA project at Mangalore

Due to delays in PTA project at Oman, Board of Directors of JBF Industries Ltd has decided to set up project of Purified Terephthalic Acid (PTA) having manufacturing capacity of 1.12 Million Tonnes per annum at (SEZ) Mangalore.

The stock was trading at Rs.179, up by Rs.2.75 or 1.56%. The stock hit an intraday high of Rs.184 and low of Rs.176.15.

The total traded quantity was 1.35 lakhs compared to 2 week average of 1.07 lakhs.

Source: Equity Bulls

TCS to set up its center in Mangalore?

Mumbai, April 25:
Tata Consultancy Services will spend an all-time high sum of Rs 2,300 crore in annual capital expenditure for the fiscal 2011-12, a top company official has indicated. This marks a 35 per cent increase from the software exporter's capex spend of Rs 1,700 crore last fiscal.

“Majority of the spend will be on physical infrastructure…We are bringing up lot of new facilities in Pune, Chennai, Gandhinagar, Kolkata, Bhubaneshwar, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Bangalore, Mangalore etc,” Mr S Mahalingam, Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director, told Business Line.

The company is also planning to expand its existing overseas centres.

However, there are no new overseas centres on its radar for the time being.

Businessline (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/todays-paper/tp-info-tech/article1767470.ece)

QUEST GLOBAL AEROSPACE SEZ,BELGAUM

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4 May, 2011, 05.52PM IST,IANS

India eyes $10 billion from biotech sector by 2015

BANGALORE: India's sunrise biotechnology sector is set to reach $10-billion revenue by 2015 from $4 billion posted in fiscal 2010-11 through innovative products and services, a top state official said Wednesday.

"The Indian biotech industry is set to grow exponentially to reach $10 billion in revenues by 2015 from $4 billion achieved in fiscal 2011, with exports contributing substantially," Karnataka IT and BT principal secretary M.N. Vidyashankar said here.

Though India's share in the $180-billion global biotech industry is negligible, the sector grew 33 percent in fiscal 2011 from $3 billion after the global meltdown in fiscal 2009-09 impacted revenues with 18 percent decline.

"The biotech sector in Karnataka contributed $1.6 billion in fiscal 2011, accounting for 40 percent of the country's total revenue. Of the 350 biotech firms across the country, 52 percent (182 firms) are located in the state," Vidyashankar told about 800 delegates at the 11th edition of Bangalore- India Bio trade show 2011.

According to global research & consulting firm Frost & Sullivan, however, the Indian biotech industry missed the revenue target of $5 billion set for the fiscal under review.

In a report, the research firm said the global biotech industry will zoom $433 billion by fiscal 2015.

"Indian biotech industry crossed $3 billion in fiscal 2009, witnessing 23 percent year-on-year growth (YoY) and was expected to reach $5 billion in fiscal 2010," the research firm said in a report, which was released during the biotech event.

India is ranked among the top 12 biotech destinations worldwide and third largest in the Asia-Pacific region.

"Bangalore has emerged as an innovative hub of India. Sustainable and affordable solutions can be funded in the biotech sector. Indian companies need to ensure capacity expansion and attract talent to meet the manpower shortage," Karnataka biotech vision group and Biocon chairperson Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw said.

Neither the industry or the state government shared data on export realization nor investments, including venture capital funds the sector attracted last fiscal.

As the country's premier biotech trade expo, the 11th edition of Bangalore-India Bio trade show has attracted about 800 delegates from 45 countries the world over.

About 120 experts in the field will present their research findings at the conference and 500 bio-pharma meetings will be held.

"To aggressively promote the field and attract young talent to the industry, we have invited about 80 selected young scientists and 850 students for the three-day event," Vidyashankar noted.

To ensure that Karnataka remained a major investment destination in the biotech industry, the state government has set up a $10-million Bio Venture Fund for incubating start-ups in high-technology areas.

"We propose to set up a $5-million research fund to discover and innovate certain biotech products for applications in pharma and agriculture areas," state minister for IT and BT V.S. Acharya said on the occasion.

Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa said four sector-specific biotech parks would be set up across the state to spread the biotech revolution beyond Bangalore.

The first sector-specific park will be set up at Mysore in collaboration with CFTRI (Central Food Technological Research Institute) for nutraceuticals and pharma products, agritech park at Dharwad with University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), marine park at Mangalore with the state fisheries department and veterinary park at Bidar with Veterinary University in north Karnataka.

ET (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/healthcare/biotech/india-eyes-10-billion-from-biotech-sector-by-2015/articleshow/8160700.cms)

State SEZs’ exports jump 82% to Rs 18.560 cr

Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in the State have recorded exports of Rs 18,560 crore in the financial year 2010-11 against exports of Rs 10,177 crore in 2009-10, registering a growth of 82.37 per cent, according to figures provided to Deccan Herald. State SEZ exports in 2008-09 were Rs 7,608.24 crore.

The latest export figures are from the 20 operational SEZs which have total of 78 units operating in them, with total investments of Rs 13,805 crore and employment of 1,03,759 jobs.

Karnataka’s superlative performance was better than the national growth figures. In 2010-11 all SEZs in the country together achieved exports of Rs 3,15,867 crore clocking a growth of 43 per cent over Rs 2,20,711 crore in 2009-10, sources said. With total investments of Rs 2,02,810 crore, as on March 31, 2011, SEZs in the country, have provided a total of 6,76,608 jobs so far.

In order to support and encourage development of SEZs, the State government, in 2009, announced the SEZ Policy providing package of incentives and supportive measures. The Centre has, so far, provided formal approvals for setting up 57 SEZs in the State, with in-principle approvals granted to nine. The number of notified SEZs stands at 36. The proposed investment in the 36 notified SEZs is Rs 16,827 crore crore of which Rs 15,408 crore has been invested, sources said.

Among 20 operational SEZs in Karnataka, Biocon Limited’s Biotech SEZ with six operational units has attracted investments of Rs 1,111.03 crore, while two IT SEZs promoted by Wipro Ltd has six units operational with total investment of Rs 397 crore. Bangalore also boasts of 10 other SEZs with total investment of Rs 6,176.36 crore.

Other SEZs in IT/ITeS space include — Adarsh Prime Projects Pvt Ltd’s, Manyata Promoters, Shamaraj & Co., Vikas Telecom, Tanglin Developments, ITPL, Bagmane Constructions, Primal Projects, HCL Technologies Ltd and Gopala Enterprises. Infosys Ltd has two SEZs in Mangalore and Mysore in the IT/ITeS sector. Besides hi-tech engineering sector SEZ in Udupi by Synfra Enginnering & Construction Ltd., KIADB’s textile and food processing SEZs in Hassan, Quest Global’s precision engineeering SEZ in Belgaum are others.

Nine SEZs which have received in-principle approval proposed to investment Rs 20,269 crore with employment generation potential of 2,34,500. The Centre has provided formal approvals for 584 SEZs in the country of which 377 have been notified with 130 of them operational as on date.


DHNS (http://www.deccanherald.com/content/162934/state-sezs-exports-jump-82.html)

Gandhi City - India's first R&D based SEZ to raise US $25 million through PEs

Gandhi City for Advanced Research & Development Ltd, which has received approvals to set up the country's first R&D based Special Economic Zone (SEZ), will shortly raise US $25 million, as the first phase of investment for the project. Two top Private Equity (PE) firms have already evinced interest in investing in Gandhi City, which is in the process of creating an ecosystem to foster collaboration between the industry, institutes and research organizations near Ramanagara, 30 kilometers from the technology hub of Bangalore.

Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, May 27, 2011 /India PRwire/ -- Gandhi City for Advanced Research & Development Ltd, which has received approvals to set up the country's first R&D based Special Economic Zone (SEZ), will shortly raise US $25 million, as the first phase of investment for the project.

Two top Private Equity (PE) firms have already evinced interest in investing in Gandhi City, which is in the process of creating an ecosystem to foster collaboration between the industry, institutes and research organizations near Ramanagara, 30 kilometers from the technology hub of Bangalore.

The SEZ project will have four phases of investment, spread across 10 years, to raise US $600 million through various routes. "The total project outlay is Rs 2,620 crore. Our plan is to replace minor investors by bringing in PE funds. It will be equivalent to 9 per cent of the total share-holding of Gandhi City," says Giri Devanur, Promoter, Gandhi City SEZ.

The process of acquiring 350 acres of land for the project is on. The Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB), the nodal agency for land acquisition in Karnataka, will complete the process shortly. The SEZ will be spread over 1,000 acres, housing research labs, incubation centers, and high-end technology testing facilities.

Gandhi City will focus on multiple disciplines, such as, Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences; Automotive and Aviation; Technology and Communications, and Agricultural sciences, in association with educational institutions. It is the first of its kind SEZ modeled on the lines of Stanford Research Park, US. Gandhi City SEZ has entered into a technological understanding with Research Triangle Park, US.

Gandhi City, a premier R&D SEZ, the only such project in India. Spread across 1,000 acres near the technology hub Bangalore, India, Gandhi City SEZ aims to create an ecosystem to foster the right collaboration between the industry, institutions, and research organizations. The total investment set to flow into the project is Rs 2,620 crore in association with major technology partners.

Gandhi City is promoted by Mr. Giri Devanur, a serial technology entrepreneur and innovator. He is a computer engineering graduate from the University of Mysore, India. He also studied at the premier Massachusetts Institute Technology (MIT), Cambridge.

He has over 21 years of experience as an Entrepreneur CEO in the technology industry. He floated several companies; successfully contributed to mergers and acquisitions; and infused capital from VCs and PE firms.

Giri Devanur is the founder of Ivega, a specialist IT services provider. He successful expanded the company, in terms of growth and revenue, and sold it to TCG.

Source (http://www.indiaprwire.com/pressrelease/other/2011052787651.htm)

It will come up in Ramnagara :cheers:

State SEZs’ exports jump 82% to Rs 18.560 cr (http://www.deccanherald.com/content/162934/state-sezs-exports-jump-82.html)
Subrahmanyan Viswanath, Bangalore, May 20, DHNS:

Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in the State have recorded exports of Rs 18,560 crore in the financial year 2010-11 against exports of Rs 10,177 crore in 2009-10, registering a growth of 82.37 per cent, according to figures provided to Deccan Herald. State SEZ exports in 2008-09 were Rs 7,608.24 crore.

The latest export figures are from the 20 operational SEZs which have total of 78 units operating in them, with total investments of Rs 13,805 crore and employment of 1,03,759 jobs.

Karnataka’s superlative performance was better than the national growth figures. In 2010-11 all SEZs in the country together achieved exports of Rs 3,15,867 crore clocking a growth of 43 per cent over Rs 2,20,711 crore in 2009-10, sources said. With total investments of Rs 2,02,810 crore, as on March 31, 2011, SEZs in the country, have provided a total of 6,76,608 jobs so far.

In order to support and encourage development of SEZs, the State government, in 2009, announced the SEZ Policy providing package of incentives and supportive measures. The Centre has, so far, provided formal approvals for setting up 57 SEZs in the State, with in-principle approvals granted to nine. The number of notified SEZs stands at 36. The proposed investment in the 36 notified SEZs is Rs 16,827 crore crore of which Rs 15,408 crore has been invested, sources said.

Among 20 operational SEZs in Karnataka, Biocon Limited’s Biotech SEZ with six operational units has attracted investments of Rs 1,111.03 crore, while two IT SEZs promoted by Wipro Ltd has six units operational with total investment of Rs 397 crore. Bangalore also boasts of 10 other SEZs with total investment of Rs 6,176.36 crore.

Other SEZs in IT/ITeS space include — Adarsh Prime Projects Pvt Ltd’s, Manyata Promoters, Shamaraj & Co., Vikas Telecom, Tanglin Developments, ITPL, Bagmane Constructions, Primal Projects, HCL Technologies Ltd and Gopala Enterprises. Infosys Ltd has two SEZs in Mangalore and Mysore in the IT/ITeS sector. Besides hi-tech engineering sector SEZ in Udupi by Synfra Enginnering & Construction Ltd., KIADB’s textile and food processing SEZs in Hassan, Quest Global’s precision engineeering SEZ in Belgaum are others.

Nine SEZs which have received in-principle approval proposed to investment Rs 20,269 crore with employment generation potential of 2,34,500. The Centre has provided formal approvals for 584 SEZs in the country of which 377 have been notified with 130 of them operational as on date.

Infosys buys Gen-i's software arm for Rs 18 cr

Infosys buys Gen-i's software arm for Rs 18 cr
BS Reporter / Bangalore June 08, 2011, 0:39 IST

Infosys Technologies, India’s second-largest information technology (IT) services company, has acquired the software solutions division of Gen-i, a telecom solutions provider based out of New Zealand, for a consideration of NZ $5 million (Rs 18 crore).

Gen-i is the corporate information and communication technology (ICT) arm of Telecom New Zealand, the largest telecom services provider in New Zealand, which is also one of the largest customers of Infosys. Gen-i employs about 3,000 people located in 17 locations across New Zealand and Australia.

According to Infosys, this strategic acquisition will help its expansion in New Zealand. Besides, the company will jointly go-to-market with i-Gen. The acquisition will bring to Infosys about 110 people other than the software assets of Gen-i's software division.

“This is a strategic acquisition, which will give us cross-selling opportunities to Gen-i’s existing set of customers and expand in New Zealand markets. We expect this partnership to fetch us a revenue of NZ$12 million in this financial year,” said V Balakrishnan, CFO of Infosys Technologies.

Infosys has a small presence in New Zealand with a headcount of 45 people. The acquisition will take its headcount in New Zealand to over 150 people. According to Infosys, those who will join are primarily senior developers, technical architects and consultants, and will continue to be based in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. The company also plans to hire an additional 15-30 people immediately.

Infosys has also announced that the current software solutions management team will lead New Zealand delivery for the company. The company has appointed Patrick Kouwenhoven to manage the New Zealand operations, which will be headed by Ashok Mysore, associate vice-president of Infosys.

“Since launching our first New Zealand office 18 months ago, we have been studying the market to find the right strategic partner. Our partnership with Gen-i makes sense because we share core values and complement each other’s strengths to fill some critical gaps in the marketplace,” said Jackie Korhonen, CEO and MD, Infosys Australia & New Zealand.

BS (http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/infosys-buys-gen-is-software-arm-for-rs-18-cr/438488/)

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(from left) Mr Murugesh R Nirani, Minister for Medium and Large Scale Industries, Karnataka Government; Mr S. Gopalakrishnan, CEO, Infosys; and Mr M.N. Vidyashankar, Secretary, IT and BT, at the launch of Karnataka Electronics Hardware Policy and the Information and Communications Technology Policy 2011 in Bangalore on Monday.– Photo: G.R.N. Somashekar

The Karnataka Government is promoting its smaller towns and has launched the Karnataka Electronics Hardware Policy to compete with Southern States such as Tamil Nadu, which has attracted companies like Nokia, Samsung and others to set up their manufacturing units in that State.

THREE CORRIDORS

The Karnataka Government unveiled the policy while announcing that this year's three-day Bangalore IT.biz event will start on October 18.

The State has identified three corridors for setting up of electronics hardware manufacturing hubs and has allocated different areas of hardware for each corridor. For example, Bangalore-Tumkur corridor will concentrate on semiconductors, Hubli-Dharwar corridor will focus on automotive electronics, and Mysore-Nanjangud will cater to medical electronics.

The Government also released the Information and Communications Technology Policy 2011 and this document also concentrates on tier-II cities. In order to woo IT and BPO companies to tier-II cities, the Government plans to develop IT parks in places such as Mysore, Mangalore, Shimoga, Hubli-Dharwar, Belgaum and Gulbarga. The State is also looking at improved connectivity to these areas according to the document.

In order to give sops to the industry based on the backwardness of a district, the State has divided taluks in different districts as per various zones, with Zone-3 indicating a backward taluk, Zone-2 indicating a more backward taluk and Zone-1 indicating a most backward taluk.

For example, the district of Tumkur has 10 taluks, with Pavagada, Chikkanayakanahalli and Tiptur being classified as Zone-1, Zone-2 and Zone-3 areas, respectively.

Companies will be given various subsidies based on where they are investing; for example, exemption of stamp duty is 100 per cent for Zone-1 and Zone-2 areas and 75 per cent for Zone-3 areas. The same percentages also apply to waiver of conversion fee from agricultural use to industrial use
BusinessLine (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/info-tech/article2120969.ece)

Sources said that a high level meeting held at the residence of Chief Minister, Yeddyurappa, on Sunday June 26, decided to denotify around 1,400 acres of land locagted in villages around Mangalore, which was proposed to be used for the second phase of Mangalore Special Economic Zone (MSEZ).

This in affect indicates that the fight launched by the owners of this land under the leadership of Sri Vishweshwarateertha Swamiji of Pejavar Mutt will turn out to be successful. An order in this connection is expected to be issued soon.

It may be recalled that the affected persons had expressed their impatience at the government’s inaction in taking a decision in this connection early, although it had promised long back to do the needful. The Swamiji had also warned the government that he would undertake indefinite fast relating to this issue from July 13 onwards.

Senior leaders of the party including BJP state president, K S Eshwarappa, minister, Dr V S Acharya, and others, apart from some leaders of the Sangh Parivar had taken part in the discussions, it is learnt.

It is also gathered that the meeting decided to form a committee of experts on the ill-affects of the thermal power plant of Udupi Power Corporation Ltd near Padubidri. The committee will also conduct a detailed study about the adverse affects of the fly ash on the lives of the people around the plant. This was also one of the demands put forth by Pejavar Swamiji.
http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=106558&n_tit=Bangalore%3A+Government+Decides+to+Return+1%2C400+Acres+Notified+for+MSEZ

BT ‘knowledge park' on the horizon

A proposed ‘knowledge park' dedicated to biotechnology and related industries is closer to execution with the foundation stone laying ceremony scheduled for July 11 in Chitradurga.

Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa on Wednesday said real estate developer Alexandria Equities had invested Rs. 500 crore in the project. In the first phase of construction, 59 acres will be developed on the vast 4,250-acre land granted to several science institutions, including the DRDO, in Chitradurga.

Mr. Yeddyurappa was speaking at the awards ceremony of the Vision Group on Science and Technology (VGST), where he conferred grants and awards on scientists and science institutions for 2010-11.

Grants

The awards, with prize money or grants, ranging from Rs. 25,000 to Rs. 20 lakh, aim to catalyse quality research and to reward outstanding researchers and science communicators.

The awards were given in six categories: seed money to young scientists for research; awards for research publication by science faculty; awards for science teachers and science communicators; institutional grants for centres of excellence in science, engineering and medicine; and grants for centres of innovative science education.

The final category comprises the Karnataka Fund for Infrastructural Strengthening in Science and Technology (K-FIST), which aims to aid institutes of higher education to develop infrastructure.

Eight young scientists were awarded a grant of Rs. 10 lakh each and five individuals were awarded for innovative teaching (Rs. 50,000 each). Awards for research publication (Rs. 25,000) were presented to eight science faculty.

Five centres of excellence in science, engineering and medicine were awarded research grants of Rs. 20 lakh each; and a grant of Rs. 10 lakh each awarded to 10 centres of innovative science education.

Awards

The K-FIST grant was awarded in two categories: Level I comprising a grant of Rs. 10 lakh each was given to 30 colleges and Level II comprising a grant of Rs. 20 lakh each was conferred on 10 colleges.

VGST, instituted by the Karnataka Government, recommends policy for the advancement of science and technology in the State.

The Hindu (http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article2202621.ece)

Belgaum has started its IT move,
Though the article in timesofindia says "BANGALORE" based, the company is headquatered in Belgaum.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/indian-angel-network-invests-1-million-in-tech-start-up-vayavya/articleshow/9277912.cms

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Karnataka to unveil policy to boost animation, gaming sector (http://www.mydigitalfc.com/news/karnataka-unveil-policy-boost-animation-gaming-sector-989)

Karnataka will soon come out with a policy on animation and gaming to give a big boost to this promising sector, which has the potential to generate Rs 10,000 crore in revenues by next year, Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda said today.

"The animation and gaming sector will strengthen the IT prowess of the state," he said at the 14th edition of the state's three-day flagship ICT event, Bangalore IT.Biz, inaugurated by former President A P J Abdul Kalam.

Karnataka contributes about 30 per cent to the country's total IT exports, he said.

"IT exports of over Rs 90,000 crore have been recorded from the state during the financial year 2010-11," Gowda said.

"Out of 25 lakh software professionals in the country, over eight lakh are employed in Bangalore alone. The contribution of IT to Karnataka's GDP is over 20 per cent," he added.

He said during the visit of a state government delegation to San Francisco, in the US, last month, networking forum The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) of Silicon Valley suggested that Karnataka should have a liaison office in Santa Clara, as this would facilitate and enable a lot of business and the exchange of latest technologies between Bangalore and Silicon Valley.

"I wish to state that the state government will definitely consider the suggestion of TiE and take necessary steps for setting up a Bangalore liaison office in Santa Clara," the Chief Minister said.

We should post about bangalore sez's also in this thread as it belongs to karnataka :lol:

Karnataka’s software exports touch Rs 85,000 cr (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/info-tech/article2552314.ece)

Karnataka, with its lion's share of the IT industry, notched software exports worth Rs 85,000 crore during 2010-11. The State's 2,200 registered software and 70 hardware units have contributed 33 per cent to the total software exports from the country.

As many as 24 top performing IT companies have won this year's STPI IT Exports Awards. The awards were announced on Wednesday evening at the Bangalore IT.biz 2011.

Ms Smitha R. and Ms Sanmangala M.S. co-founders, Utthunga Technologies Pvt. Ltd, were chosen the best women entrepreneurs of the year.

The awards were for 23 categories including exports from IT/IT-enabled services, employment, best STPI incubatee, electronic hardware company and special recognition for performers from tier II/III regions - mostly Mysore, Hubli and Mangalore.

Some of the winning companies are Optimal Solutions Integration Software Pvt. Ltd; Sonus Networks India Pvt. Ltd; Software Paradigms Infotech Pvt. Ltd; Sys Information Healthcare (I) Pvt. Ltd; Invenger Technologies Pvt. Ltd; Diya Systems (Mangalore) Pvt. Ltd; Sankalp Semiconductor Pvt. Ltd; RiteScribe Med Info Pvt. Ltd; Aldius Consulting Group; Rangsons Electronics Pvt. Ltd; VXL Instruments Ltd; GE Medical Systems (I) Pvt. Ltd; Global e-Business Operations Pvt. Ltd.

Infosys Technologies Ltd. was named the highest employer. CBay Systems (I) P Ltd the highest new ITES jobs creator; and Hewlett Packard GlobalSoft Ltd the highest new jobs creator in IT.

Also in the list are Goldman Sachs Services (P) Ltd, Qualcomm India Pvt. Ltd and Intel Technology India Pvt. Ltd.

No Mention of Mangalore/Mysore/Hubli/Belgaum or Gulburga for TCS

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/jobs/tcs-shifts-hiring-to-smaller-cities-for-cost-cutting/articleshow/10425091.cms

MUMBAI: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Asia's biggest employer of software developers, will shift hiring to low-cost cities in India as it struggles to maintain profitability amid spiralling labour costs.

The company, based in Mumbai, is building campuses and adding workers in cities including Ahmedabad , Pune, Bhubaneswar , Nagpur, Indore and Cochin, chief financial officer S Mahalingam said in an interview. The company's shares plunged the most in more than two years on Tuesday after earnings missed analysts' estimates amid rising costs.

Employee costs at Tata Consultancy, which spent $2.8 billion on salaries in the year-ending March, rose 27% last quarter exceeding the 15% increase in profit. While expanding in cheaper cities will help reduce costs, lack of infrastructure and quality of employees may create new challenges, according to Vihang Naik, an analyst at MF Global Sify Securities. "The biggest campuses that we're building now are in Pune and Ahmedabad ," Mahalingam said in Mumbai on Tuesday.

"At the same time we are putting pressure on the system and the government to upgrade the infrastructure in these places." TCS gained 1.47% to Rs 1,048.7 at 12:30 pm in Mumbai after plunging 7.7% on Tuesday after profit missed analysts' estimates by 3%. The company's operating margin narrowed by 1 percentage point in the three months ended September 30.

India's inflation exceeded 9% for a 10th straight month in September, reducing room for the central bank to pause its record interest rate increases and maintaining pressure on wages. Salaries in India are set to rise the most in the Asia-Pacific region this year, according to an Aon-Hewitt survey released on March 8.

Wages are likely to rise at an average of 12.9% in 2011, compared with 11.7% last year, according to the survey of 531 organisations from 18 primary industry sectors in December and January . Chinese salaries may rise 9%, while those in the Philippines 7%, Aon Hewitt said. Tata Consultancy and other Indian software developers "hardly have a choice in terms of this expansion ," Naik said. "It has to happen in smaller towns."

Second-tier cities like Jaipur and Ahmedabad have operating costs that are 20-30 % lower than established technology hubs like Bangalore , according to a May report from Everest Group, a Dallas-based firm that advises companies on outsourcing strategies.
TCS, which has 20,000 workers and 17 offices in Mumbai, will increase its workforce in Ahmedabad to 12,000 from 2,000, and add to its "small presence" in Pune with a new facility that can hold 17,000 workers , Mahalingam said.

Karnataka’s software exports touch Rs 85,000 cr (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/info-tech/article2552314.ece)

Do you have the IT export figures from Mysore ,Mangalore and Hubli. This figure has never been published for several years.

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IT-SEZ in 36 acres of land, KIADB Nidige-Machenahalli Industrial Area

On Shimoga-Bhadravathi NH 206, 2Kms from proposed Airport and 6 Kms from Shimoga Rly Station

Govt. of India has notified the IT/ITES SEZ, Shimoga

UK based BPO is already in place developing around 2 lakhs sq.ft. of IT workspace.-Xchanging

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Gulbarga to host first IT Investors' Meet today

General Manager of the KEONICS G.S. Bantu and president of the Hyderabad Karnataka Chamber of Commerce and Industry Gopalakrishna Raghoji have said that as many as 28 software companies have confirmed their participation in the first-ever IT Investors' Meet in Gulbarga on Saturday.

Addressing a joint press conference in Gulbarga on Friday, Mr. Bantu said already three companies including Om Software, CADDMaXX Solutions and Microline Electronics have expressed interest to sign an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the IT Investors' Meet on Saturday to set up their units in the IT park in Gulbarga. While the Microline Electronics proposes to set up IT H/w and Networking solutions office in 6,000 sq.ft. area, the CADDMaXX solutions has expressed interest to set up its CAD Software Solutions office in 3,000 sq.ft. space and Om Software wants to establish its software solutions office in 5,000 Sq.ft. area.

Prominent among major IT industries which is sending its representatives to participate in the meet included Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Oracle, MPhasis, Microsoft, CTS-Cognigent, IBM, Accenture, HSBC, Satyam Mahindra, TEchsher, Glodyne Techno Serve, Nerve Centrix, Pinaka Informatics, Micro Fx, Valtech, Trimax IT info Serve, Meritrct Sevices, Ligature Software, and Tulip Telecom.

The Hindu (http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article2402092.ece)



IT parks in tier 3 cities is a good place to promote entrepreneurship/start ups.

Wurth Elektronik German electronic co in Mysore

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Cabinet approves BT park in Mysore
Bangalore, Nov 4, DHNS:

The State Cabinet on Thursday approved a proposal to set up a biotech park in Mysore at a cost of Rs 103.27 crore.

Law and Parliamentary Minister S Suresh Kumar told reporters that Neutri / Neutraceutical and phytopharmaceutical (N2 - P2) BT park will be set up under public private partnership (PPP) model. JSS College, Mysore, has been selected as the private partner.

The government will invest Rs 20 crore, while the private partner will bear the remaining cost of the project. JSS College will use its land of about 51.13 acres for the project.

The government had invited tenders for setting up the park under the condition that the bidders should possess at least 50 acres in and around Mysore city. JSS College, which was one of the two bidders, was selected as the private partner.

PPP model

As per the condition, the private partner should first transfer the ownership of the land to a joint venture company to be set up comprising JSS College and Karnataka Biotechnology and Information Technology Services (K-BITS), a government of Karnataka undertaking.

Then, the government will release its share of Rs 20 crore in two years for the project. Suresh Kumar said the project has been chalked out as per the recommendations of Karnataka Vision Group on BT headed by Kiran Mazumdar Shaw.

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/202599/cabinet-approves-bt-park-mysore.html

HGS completes 5 years in Mysore

India Infoline News Service / 11:00 , Nov 21, 2011
HGS has plans to expand its operations in Mysore substantially in the coming years by adding supplementary service lines and recruiting more people.
The Mysore center of HGS, a leading global provider of Business Process Management services, has completed five years of service. This state-of-the-art facility is a dedicated delivery center to one of India's largest telecom service providers. Growing steadily from just 120 employees in 2006 to close to 1200 employees now, HGS Mysore has been a recipient of many awards from its client and is acknowledged as a 'value partner'. HGS forayed in this heritage city because of the availability of a large pool of talented work-force, good infrastructure and excellent connectivity with other parts of the country. Being among the first movers in this city, the company feels that Mysore is at the forefront of locations favorable for voice based domestic BPO operations. HGS has plans to expand its operations in Mysore substantially in the coming years by adding supplementary service lines and recruiting more people.

Commenting on this historic feat, Partha DeSarkar, Global CEO of HGS, said, "We zeroed in on Mysore in search of the perfect tier II city for domestic business. This city is a great amalgamation of cost efficiency and business excellence. Personally, I am impressed by the entrepreneurial nature of our people of Mysore. It is of little surprise then that they are able to deliver service levels which exceed both, the client's needs and our own high standards. With its many milestone events and exciting developments, HGS Mysore is at the forefront of our domestic business growth story. On the culmination of five fruitful years, I thank everyone in HGS Mysore. I thank those who were there on the first day, and those whose first day is today

http://www.indiainfoline.com/Markets/News/HGS-completes-5-years-in-Mysore/5293282841

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Karnataka eyes Rs 1 lakh crore IT exports in FY’12

Karnataka expects IT exports from the state to touch Rs 1 lakh crore in the current financial year. IT exports from the state stood at about Rs 85,000 crore during the 2010-11 financial year.

“IT sector in the state is growing at about 22 per cent and we hope to touch Rs 100,000 crore of IT exports during the current fiscal,” the State IT Department Principal Secretary, Mr M.N. Vidyashankar, told PTI here today.

IT companies, including MNCs, that have set up shop in Karnataka find the talent to be of global standards, he noted.

Research and development activities have increased tremendously, he said, adding that a greater number of companies are expanding their operations and hiring young talent in the state.

“The IT industry in Karnataka has provided direct employment to about eight lakh persons, which is expected to touch nine lakh by 2012,” Mr Vidyashankar said.

He said the Government is taking necessary steps for initiating the tender process for the selection of a Master Developer for the proposed Information Technology Investment Region (ITIR) project in the state.

ITIR, an integrated IT city covering a geographical area of about 40 sq km, is proposed to be developed in the vicinity of the Bangalore International Airport near Devanahalli. The state government would take up the project in two phases.

“In the first phase, about 2,000 acres of land would be acquired. The project would be developed on a PPP mode. The ITIR project is expected to attract an investment of over Rs 1 lakh crore, with potential employment of about three million,” Mr Vidyashankar said.

He also said that the Government has submitted a proposal to the Centre for establishing an Indian Institute of Information Technology at Dharwad in North Karnataka under the PPP mode through a partnership between the Government of India, state government and industry.

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/government-and-policy/article2708599.ece?ref=wl_industry-and-economy

Rs 100 Crore Biotech Park to Be Set Up in Mysore

A Rs 100 crore neutri/neutraceutical and phytopharmaceutical (N2P2) project would be developed in Mysore, according to a key government official.

The Vision Group on Biotechnology headed by Dr. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has recommended sector-specific biotech parks to be set up in tier 2/3 cities of the State and this project is one such to be developed in Mysore, Principal Secretary in the Department of Information Technology, Biotechnology and Science and Technology, M N Vidyashankar told PTI here.

The private partner for development of this project has been selected following a tender process. The state Cabinet has given its clearance. The State Government’s major role in the project is to develop the R & D zone.

"M/s. JSS Mahavidyapeetha are the successful bidders for the project, estimated to cost about Rs 100 crore," Vidyashankar said.

He said the biotech sector faces talent shortage and to address this, the State Government has initiated the BT Finishing Schools project. As many as 12 educational institutions have been selected by a Committee headed by Dr G Padmanaban to establish such schools, covering Bangalore, Mysore, Manipal, Mangalore and Gulbarga.

"The BT Finishing School concept involves academics for six months and industry internship for six months. The students are assured of a job after they clear the one year Diploma course," Vidyashankar said.

The students for BT Finishing Schools have been selected through an entrance test and interview conducted by the educational institutions.The course has commenced in September 2011.Regular monitoring is done by a High Level Committee headed by Principal Secretary – Information Technology, Biotechnology and Science and Technology,and Prof G Padmanaban.

The courses and other day-to-day matters are steered by another Committee comprising the educational institutions, it was stated.

http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=745170

Ozonegroup set for Rs 2,000 cr pharma, Biotechnology industrial cluster

Ozonegroup, a property developer from Bangalore, has announced the launch of ‘Jeevitham’ a pharma and biotech industrial cluster being developed on a sprawling 330 acres in Chikkaballapur, North of Bangalore which is a 30 minutes drive from the international airport.

The project christened ‘Jeevitham’ meaning “caring for life” is being developed with the patronage of the Karnataka Pharmaceutical Association. The cost of the project is estimated to be Rs 2,000 crore and Ozonegroup plans to invest about Rs 500 crore in the project. Apart from pharma companies, the park would also house allied industries like printing and packaging industry, analytical labs and R&D facilities. The park envisages providing employment opportunities to around 12,000 people.

The strategic advantage of Jeevitham is its close proximity to the Bangalore International Airport, and the road and rail networks. N Mohan, Executive Vice President at Ozonegroup, said, “We at Ozonegroup have designed the project considering the need for integrated pharma facilities in the region to provide an impetus to the formulation-driven pharmaceutical sector in Karnataka which is growing at a rate of about 16 per cent year-on-year.”

Jeevitham cluster is also integrated with amenities like ready-to-use warehousing facilities, truck terminal, weigh bridges, business centre, business hotel, amphitheatre, central park, residential quarters with a club house and gym, convenience shopping, bank and C&F (carrying and forwarding) offices, all integrated in a cluster.

Jeevitham would be developed in two phases. Phase 1 would be of about 275 acres and shall be ready for operations by the end of 2013. However, allotment to the industries shall begin by the third quarter of 2012 to enable concurrent development of the pharma industries.

http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/ozonegroup-set-for-rs-2000-cr-pharma-biotechnology-industrial-cluster/458757/

Karnataka govt clears animation policy

The Karnataka government today approved an animation, visual effects and comics policy to promote this fast-growing sector.

Briefing reporters after a Cabinet meeting, state's Higher Education Minister V S Acharya said the government would invest Rs 25 crore to create infrastructure facilities to promote the sector.

"The Cabinet has adopted the policy framework," he said.

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/216498/karnataka-govt-clears-animation-policy.html

Karnataka Govt to set up Rs 50 cr VC fund for animation sector

Karnataka government would set up a Rs 50 crore venture capital fund for promoting the animation, visual effects and gaming sector, a key official said today. IT Secretary M N Vidyashankar told PTI that a Rs 40 crore 'incubation centre' for this sector would also be established here. The state government would provide 25 per cent of the funds for this incubation centre, while 50 per cent would come from the industry. The balance is expected to come from the Centre. The initiatives are part of the policy for the sector approved by the State cabinet last evening. Vidyashankar said a joint industry-government body would be constituted to implement the policy in a time-bound manner. "We will also help students in getting educated in select colleges and universities by appropriately modifying the curriculum", he said. He said training centres would be set up in places like Davanagere, Hubli-Dharwad,Kolar and Chikkaballapura,which have a lot of potential, to fine-tune the skill sets of students. The sector employs around 3,000 professionals in Bangalore alone and about 19,000 to 20,000 in the State as a whole. This number is expected to go up to one lakh in the next five years, Vidyashankar added

http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/karnataka-govt-to-set-up-rs-50-cr-vc-fund-for-animation-sector/945992.html

Moily bats for MSEZ Phase II

Denotification of land will send out the wrong message to investors, he says

Union Minister for Corporate Affairs M. Veerappa Moily has said it would send out the wrong signal to investors if the State Government denotified land for the second phase of the Mangalore Special Economic Zone (MSEZ).

He was speaking at the valedictory function of the two-day coastal region business development summit organised by the Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce and Industry here on Thursday.

Mr. Moily said MSEZ was a “prestigious project” of the State. Denotifying land indicated that “we are not interested in industry''.

Industries in the coastal region were the soul of the country. If the State did not realise this, the industrial sector would not prosper, he said.

The Minister claimed that 80 per cent of farmers were ready to part with their land for the second phase of the project.

The Government should not give in to pressure from those in the “non-priority sector” who were opposing the project.

The second phase would generate employment for two lakh people, he said.

Mr. Moily said the Government should have initiated steps for getting environmental clearance for the power transmission line from the Udupi Thermal Power Corporation plant to Hassan. Then, the plant would have generated 1,200 MW of power by now.

Earlier, speaking at the technical session, Ramachandra Bhat, professor, College of Fisheries, Mangalore, said special economic zones and thermal power plants posed a threat to fisheries and marine life.

Industrial chemical discharge polluted fish breeding areas and affected marine life. “Fisheries or industrial development, [that is the] hard choice we have to make,” he said.

Mr. Bhat suggested that deep sea mechanised fishing be allowed only beyond 10 km from the coast; the area before that should be reserved for traditional fishermen.

Mr. Bhat admitted that the college and the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) had failed to develop technologies that would attract fishermen and that their extension activities were not reaching the target group.

G.V. Joshi, professor of Economics, K.S. Hegde Institute of Management, Nitte, and M. Abdul Rahiman, the former Vice-Chancellor of Kannur and Kozhikode universities, spoke.

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article2779322.ece

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Karnataka biotech body signs pact with US co

The Karnataka Biotechnology and Information Technology Services (KBITS) and the Pennsylvania Biotechnology Association (PABio) have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly create and promote biotech opportunities both in the US and Karnataka.

Pennsylvania Bio (PABio) is a 518-member trade association for the life sciences in Pennsylvania and has built strengths in biotech, medical device, diagnostic, pharmaceutical, research, and financial services.

Whereas KBITS is the nodal agency of the Karnataka Government providing incentives and concessions to the biotech sector, under the various schemes and policies of the State Government, including setting up of biotech finishing schools in Karnataka. KBITS is also the implementing agency for the Bangalore Biotech Park and the proposed biotech parks in Tier II cities.

According to Mr Chakravarthi Mohan, Managing Director, KBITS, and Director of Karnataka Department of IT/BT, “Both PABio and KBITS have a mandate to promote biotech activities in their respective regions by creating appropriate opportunities like trade events, conferences, business delegations etc.”

“Both the associations will work together to support the efforts of life sciences companies to establish or grow a presence in the region. And this collaborative project will be known as ‘BioSpan' to reflect the goal of spanning the two regions and the two countries,” he added.

Mr Christopher P. Molineaux, President, Pennsylvania Biotechnology Association, said PABio is the only state-wide trade association for the life sciences in Pennsylvania.
Bio-Venture Fund

Dr V.S. Acharya, Karnataka Minister for IT & BT, said, “The State Government is planning to set up a $10-million Bio-Venture Fund, to cater to certain hi-tech areas with strong social relevance, such as transgenics, stem cell biology, etc.

“The intention of the State Government is quite clear. We would like to see a booming economy led by the knowledge sectors. We believe in realistic, practical and workable policies. Several initiatives announced by us are already under implementation as a result of the practical policies.”

On the issue of shortage of talent in the biotech sector, Dr Acharya said the Government has sanctioned setting-up of 12 Biotech Finishing Schools, recommended by the Selection Committee headed by Prof Padmanaban.

“The one-year course of BT Finishing Schools, started in September last year, is mid-way through and the feedback we have received is to say the least, highly rewarding. All the students undergoing the course at the schools will be absorbed by the industry, in partnership with which the Biotech Finishing School is conducting the course.”

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/government-and-policy/article2868983.ece

Karnataka govt to allocate separate budget for nanotech initiatives, EoI for Nano Park to be evaluated by Feb 20

The Karnataka government will be providing a separate budgetary allocation for the nanotechnology initiatives during the forthcoming budget of 2012-13 which will be presented on March 9. The state government is also all set for establishing the Nano Park which will house the Indian Institute of Nano Science & Technology at an estimated budget allocation of Rs.150 crore and spread over 25 acres of land. The Expression of Interest (EoI) applications will be evaluated before February 20. The Park, which will be the first of its kind in the country, will give a fillip to the development of medical devices, diagnostic kits and pharmaceuticals.

Going by the support it extended to information technology and biotechnology so far, the stage government has reaped the adequate benefits. Karnataka is now home to the IT giants and Bangalore has been recognized as a bio-cluster because it houses more than 60 per cent (187 companies) of the biotechnology enterprises in the country. Although Nanotechnology initiatives have taken off in the country at research institutes and academia engaged in concrete efforts along with commercialization of the technology to a certain extent by the industry, Karnataka has been short-listed for the Nano Park because of the projects by the research centres in the State like Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research Centre, Indian Institute of Science and the National Centre for Biological Sciences, said MN Vidyashankar, secretary, department of biotechnology and science and technology, Karnataka.

According to Karnataka Minister for Science & Technology and Fisheries, Anand Vasant Asnotikar, now with the allocation of a separate budget, the state will look at hastening the activities in the nanotechnology space which can provide global research opportunities and create job opening.

Further, going by the capability in nanotechnology so far, the state government has been annually organizing the Bangalore Nano conference which completed its fourth edition in December, 2011. In fact, the conference was the brainchild of Prof. CNR Rao, Linus Pauling Research Professor; chairman, Vision Group on Science & Technology and Vision Group on Nanotechnology, Government of Karnataka.

The state government has now released a tender notification inviting EOI on December 5, 2011 and January 31, 2012 was the last day for submission of the EoI.

There has been considerable interest evinced from US and Europe besides real estate majors having the expertise on development of Industrial Park infrastructure. Our technical teams are expected to shortlist the EoI applications by February 20, according to the principal secretary, Karnataka department of IT, BT and S&T.

The Park will be on similar lines of an Information Technology Park. Karnataka is home to many such initiatives. The focus of the Indian Institute of Nano Science & Technology will be research and development of nano materials. The key focus of the Park is the research and development of nano materials.

The infrastructure would include a science and technology business incubator which will nurture early stage entrepreneurial ventures based on nano science and technology. In addition, there will be laboratories and clean rooms that will prove conducive for nano research.

http://pharmabiz.com/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=67481&sid=1

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Karnataka unveils animation policy to woo investments

Tech-savvy Karnataka on Wednesday unveiled a special policy on animation, visual effects, gaming and comics (AVGC) to attract investments and generate employment for thousands of educated youth in the sunrise sector. "Karnataka is the first state in the country to formulate a separate policy on AVGC with a view to making the state a preferred destination in the new sunrise sector," state Labour Minister B.N. Bacchegowda said while releasing the new policy.

According to M.N. Vidyashankar, IT, biotech and science and technology principal secretary, Karnataka has the potential to generate Rs.10,000 crore (Rs.100 billion) in the AVGC sector by this year-end. "The state already has 20 institutes offering training in AVGC to about 10,000 students. The policy aims to spread awareness and provide employment to the educated youth for bridging the demand-supply of skilled resources," Vidyashankar said.

Though India is projected to account for just $2.2 billion in revenue in the global animation industry, estimated to generate $153 billion, its cumulative average growth rate (CAGR) at 22 percent is twice that of the global average at 10 percent CAGR. "The policy is an initiative to promote the state as a lucrative outsourcing destination and attract venture capital funding in the AVGC sector," Vidyashankar observed.

Lauding the state government's initiative, Association of Bangalore Animation Industry (ABAI) president Biren Ghose said the policy would turbo-charge the nascent creative sector and help it to achieve scale in domestic and international markets.

"The policy will drive the growth of media and entertainment, e-learning, advertising, industrial design and social development projects. The venture capital fund and digital art centres will generate opportunities and make the state an AVGC hub," Ghose said.

Among the noted firms in the AVGC sector operating in this tech hub are Techicolor with DreamWorks as its dedicated unit, Tata Elxi, MPC, Dhruva Interactive, Liquid Comics, Prime Focus and global majors such as Intel, HP, AMD, Wipro, Adobe, Dell, IBM, Oracle and EMC.http://ibnlive.in.com/news/karnatakas-new-animation-policy-to-woo-investors/234844-62-129.html

Honeywell plans to invest Rs 402 cr on new centre

Honeywell Technology Solutions, the R&D arm of global technology major Honeywell, is setting up a new centre in Bangalore. The company has received approval from the Karnataka government for setting up the facility which entails an investment of Rs 402 crore, according to highly placed sources in the state government.

The new centre will come up in the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board’s ITôITeS industrial area near the Bangalore International Airport at Devanahalli. Honeywell is understood to have informed the government that the new facility would focus on product development, engineering and service in the areas of automation and control solutions (ACS), R&D labs, prototyping and related activities.

‘IT, BT companies too under industries Act'

The exemption given to information technology and biotechnology companies regarding harassment of employees under the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act 1946 has been withdrawn, according to Karnataka State Women's Commission (KSWC) chairperson C. Manjula.

Speaking to presspersons here on Tuesday, Ms. Manjula said IT and BT companies needed to adhere to the standing orders in the Act and ensure that women employees were not harassed. A survey had found that women employees of IT companies had their employment terminated on flimsy grounds and without a chance to defend themselves.

The commission, after noting this, had recommended that IT companies too be brought under the purview of the Act, she said.

Demanding more powers to the commission, Ms. Manjula said that being a monitoring body, the KSWC did not have statutory powers to punish those found guilty of harassing women.http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article2993037.ece

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Clearance for SEZ near Hubli may be given soon

Union Minister Anand Sharma has given assurance in this regard: Pralhad Joshi

The Union Government is considering giving clearance for the setting up of a special economic zone (SEZ) on information technology and IT-enabled services at Gamanagatti near Hubli.

ASSURANCE GIVEN

An assurance in this regard has been given by Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Anand Sharma when Dharwad MP Pralhad Joshi met him in New Delhi recently.

In a release issued here, Mr. Joshi said that the Union Minister gave this assurance when they met during the budget session recently.

It might be recalled that the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB) is developing 12.15 hectares of land at Gamanagatti for a SEZ.

Mr. Joshi said that the proposal had been pending before the Union Government for the last two years.

He said that the SEZ Board of Approval of the Union Ministry of Commerce had approved the proposal at its meeting held on May 31, 2011. However, the Home Ministry's approval was essential and therefore the final approval was getting delayed.

He said that he had requested Mr. Sharma to exempt the SEZ in Hubli from getting approval from the Home Ministry and Mr. Sharma had assured him that he would issue the notification approving the SEZ soon.

Mysore's Nano Centre takes tentative steps

The Centre for nanotechnology (CNT), set up recently at the National Institute of Engineering (NIE) in Mysore, has taken up two projects on nano materials and applications.

CNT is a multidisciplinary research centre for the faculty members of physics, chemistry and mechanical sciences. The primary objective of the Centre for Nano-technology is to characterise structural and mechanical properties of nano materials for various applications

The projects, a Rs 1.86-crore one for ‘Characterisation of composite materials and application of nano materials for sustainable energy’, funded by the Nano Mission of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, and a Rs 60-lakh project, ‘Development of CIGS-based nano materials for photovoltaics’, funded by the Vision Group on Science and Technology (VGST) of Department of Science and Technology, Government of Karnataka.
A team of experts is working on these projects.

NIE’s Building Fire Research Centre has already done the pilot using sophisticated equipment like Phenom Scanning Electron Microscope, Atomic Force Microscope and X-Ray Diffractometer, Spin Coater, Electrochemical Analyser, Annealing Vacuum Furnace and Wear Test Rig, G L Shekar, principal, NIE, said here.

Realising nanotechnology’s potential, with it being one of the most exciting and emerging fields that may lead to new vistas in technological advances of the century and would bring in myriad industrial applications, NIE has set up the centre.

Its main focus is on creating infrastructure for research on fundamental aspects of nanotechnology for students and teachers of science and engineering, and promoting application-oriented R&D projects among students.

Besides developing an interdisciplinary culture for study and research in nano-scale science, engineering and technology, it will focus on sharing its facilities with other scientists and researchers in the region and forge linkages, and achieve synergy between the educational and research institutions, and industry.

With such efforts, CNT proposes to promote international collaborative research.

Applications of nanotechnology deliver both expected and unexpected ways to benefit the society in many areas. It is considerably helping to improve and even revolutionise industry and technology sectors like medicine, food safety, information technology, energy, environmental science, engineering among others.

Its benefits are rapidly increasing, calling for more study and research in nanotechnology sphere.

Set up with these objectives, Shekar said, the state-of-the-art centre will be formally inaugurated on April 11 at the institute premises.

BS (http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/mysores-nano-centre-takes-tentative-steps/470678/)

What is the status of N2P2 park? I want Mysore to be ahead of Bangalore in Nano tech :cheers:

High-level panel clears TCS plan to set up IT/ITES SEZ in Bangalore

BANGALORE APRIL 13:
The Karnataka's State High-Level Clearance Committee (SHLCC) has cleared Tata Consultancy Services' (TCS) proposal to set up IT/ITES SEZ in Bangalore.

TCS is planning to invest Rs 3,400 crore to set up IT/ITES special economic zone on 26 acres in Siddapura and Tubarahalli villages in Bangalore rural district.

Briefing reporters after the SHLCC meet, Mr Murgesh R Nirani, Minister for Large and Medium Industries, said, “The committee, in addition to TCS proposal, has cleared two other SEZ projects to come up in Bangalore and Mysore with an investment of Rs 3,961 crore having employment potential of 33,200 people.”

According to market sources, SEZ proposals cleared are of IT major Wipro on 28 acres in Bangalore rural district and of Jubilant on 25 acres in Mysore.

Other projects cleared today are Patel Engineering, which is planning to establish an integrated township in Anekal taluk, Bangalore, urban district with an investment of Rs 2,025 crore.

CEMENT & STEEL

SHLCC has cleared three cement and one iron and steel projects. Investment in cement sector is Rs 6,475.13 crore with employment potential of 1,525 people.

Projects cleared are Reliance Cementation, which is to set up a 5-mtpa cement plant in Sedam taluk, Gulbarga district, with an investment of Rs 2,500 crore.

Shaasta Cement Corporation proposal to set up 3.5-mtpa cement plant in Chincholi taluk in Gulbarga district, with an investment of Rs 2,320 crore has also been cleared.

In iron and steel sector, investment is from JSW Steel which is planning to set up a ‘cold-rolled annealed and skin passed coils' unit in Sandur taluk, Bellary district, with an investment of Rs 4,190.40 crore and the employment potential is 1,264 people.

Mr Nirani said “Apart from these investments, SHLCC has also approved six sugar projects with an investment of Rs 999 crore in the districts of Belgaum, Bijapur, Bidar and Raichur, which will offer employment to 1,713 people and is expected to add value to the development of northern parts of the state.”

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/info-tech/article3311699.ece?ref=wl_industry-and-economy

Mangalore has got CTS Campus? I saw it in their financial results 2011 - They have leased 42,210sqft

^^ They have acquired corelogic which has office in mangalore thats a bpo

^^ They have acquired corelogic which has office in mangalore thats a bpo


Oh thanks for reminding me i totally forgot ...

Infosys to expand SEZ in Dakshina Kannada dist

Pradeesh Chandran / Chennai/ Bangalore Apr 24, 2012, 00:34 IST

Infosys Technologies, India’s second largest IT services company, has secured an additional 42 acres of land for its proposed facility at the ITôITeS Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in the coastal district of Dakshina Kannada. The State High Level Clearance Committee (SHLCC), headed by the chief minister of Karnataka has recently approved the request of the company for allotment of additional land.

The company is already in possession of 311.86 acres in the SEZ, which was allotted to it by the state government in 2004.

According to highly-placed sources in the state government, Infosys had informed the state government that out of 311.86 acres only 100 acres was usable. The remaining 211.86 acres land forms valleys, hillocks, undiluted and steep slopes and cannot be used. Further, the official said, to make the boundary of ITTES SEZ complete and contiguous, the company has requested for allotment of additional 42.74 acres of land at Pajeeru, Kairangala and Kurunadu villages of Bantwal taluk in Dakshina Kannada District.
The government said out of the 42.74 acres about 35.51 acres were notified for acquisition by Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB) in various survey numbers of Kairangala, Kurunadu & Pajeeru villages of Bantwal taluk in Dakshina Kannada district and remaining 7.23 acres of government land is being handed over by the Dakshina Kannada district authorities, for the project. Confirming the development, Infosys spokesperson said the new piece of land is on the southern side of the existing IT SEZ campus and is part of the existing SEZ. This was taken up to complete the campus which was a part of earlier master plan to make the campus a contiguous piece.

The company in the first phase of the software development centre plans to create a built up area of 2 million square feet with an investment of around Rs 700 crore.

“We started operations in this park in 2007. The total built up area is 1.13 million square feet (including 0.4 million under construction) and have already invested Rs 380 crore in this project”, Infosys spokesperson added.

As of March 2012, in Mangalore the company has a built up area of 9,50,072 square feet with a seating capacity of 4,682 and another 3,83, 897 sq.ft is under construction which will have a seating capacity of 2,500 people. Presently, the company has one more software development centre in Mangalore with 1,200 engineers, which was set up in the year 1996.

http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/infosys-to-expand-sez-in-dakshina-kannada-dist/472363/

Please find the Hubli-Dharwad profile - GIM June 6 & 7 2012

http://advantagekarnataka.com/images/district-profiles/Dharwad-profile.pdf

To invest Rs 1,800 cr in phased manner


Gulf Oil Corporation Ltd and Hinduja Realty Ventures Ltd have performed bhoomi puja for the Rs 1,800-crore special economic zone and mixed use project planned at Yelahanka in Bangalore.

The project is being developed on a 39.67-acre site owned by Gulf Oil Corporation, a Hinduja Group company.

The Managing Director of Gulf Oil, Mr Subhas Pramanik, told Business Line that the project would be developed in a phased manner. It is expected to generate revenues from the fourth quarter of 2013-14.

Designed by architects RSP of Singapore, the mixed use project will consist of 8 million sq. ft. and include a revenue area of 3.82 million sq. ft of IT SEZ and 1.23 million sq. ft of non-SEZ space encompassing a hotel, serviced apartments, a retail mall and commercial offices.

The Rs 1,800-crore project is being taken up jointly with the group company Hinduja Realty Ventures. They are responsible for all architectural scheme design, project funding, development and eventual maintenance of the project when completed.

“The project had taken some additional time mainly because of the permission for a special economic zone. Once we received this, we have begun work on the project,” he said.

To execute the project, there is no additional burden on Gulf Oil. In return for providing land for the project, the company is entitled to 30 per cent of the entire developed area as part of the scheme equivalent to 2.4 million sq. ft. This includes 1.5 million sq. ft of revenue area.

“While the Bangalore project is expected to take up to five-and-a-half years for completion, we will initiate work on the Hyderabad project once the demand for office space picks up,” Mr Pramanik said.

Gulf Oil shares closed the day trade at Rs 83.85, up 4.55 per cent on the BSE.
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/article3355930.ece

why IT companies are investing in hubli dwd..? as far as i knw there are some companies in navanagar IT park... but why not big MNC's ? they always complained of infrastructure. but now it has improved a lot...!!!

why IT companies are investing in hubli dwd..? as far as i knw there are some companies in navanagar IT park... but why not big MNC's ? they always complained of infrastructure. but now it has improved a lot...!!!

Give them free land they will come running :-)

Give them free land they will come running :-)
They won't the T2 cities aspiring for such MNCs need to upgrade their infra big time.

^^ Not the infra that is problem in T2 cities hardly any traffic jams there. But it is social infra for living, like malls, supremarkets, five star hotels, airport, healthcare and good residences. Even free land in hubli no takers :ohno:

^^^^ bangalore also was like hubli before getting developed.. so I think somewer at somepoint we have to start...In my point of view i think we have to put pressure on MLA's and MP of hubli dharwad region to bring IT companies.. Its like vicious circle IT companies willl say they will not come to Tier 2 cities unless it is developed.. but unless they come it will be not developed..!!!!

and I knw the MP their is trying hard to bring companies but the process should become fast...!!:ohno:

Karnataka will handover land to Infosys, Wipro by month-end

Karnataka Industries Minister Murugesh Nirani today said the government by month-end would hand over land to Infosys and Wipro to set up their development centres in the city.

"By month-end, we will clear all hurdles in handing over the land to the concerned IT companies," he told reporters on the sidelines of Southern Regional Council Meeting of Confederation of Indian Industry here.

During the last Global Investors Meet (GIM), Infosys and Wipro had signed MoUs with the government to set up development centres in the state.

While Infosys signed a Rs 2,950-crore MoU to set up a software development centre on Sarjapur Road, Wipro signed a Rs 537-crore MoU to set up a software export hub at its existing Sarjapur facility.

Because of land issues with farmers and fake land documents among others, there has been a delay in handing over the land to the companies, Nirani said.

Even the work on developing infrastructure around the proposed development centres has hit a roadblock because of land issues, he added.

"We will clear all hurdles of handing over the land and start work on infrastructure next month onwards," he said.

When asked about reports of Arcelor Mittal deciding to put their India projects on hold for another few years, Nirani said he would not like to comment on it.http://www.deccanherald.com/content/248511/karnataka-handover-land-infosys-wipro.html

IT-SEZ in Hubli to become reality soon

HUBLI: Hopes of setting up an IT special economic zone (SEZ) in Hubli have taken wings. The Union Ministry of Commerce is likely to issue a final notification on the approval of a proposal by the Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB) to set up an IT-SEZ. According to industry insiders once the project is completed it could provide a fillip to the state government's initiative to develop Hubli-Dharwad into a prominent IT hub in the Northern Karnataka region.

KIADB, had proposed to develop the SEZ on around 30 acres at Gamanagatti area in Hubli-Dharwad. Once this three-year-old project gets a final nod from the Centre it will be up to the state to take it further - arrange financial resources and land. Till now the state government has agreed to help KIADB for installing industrial infrastructure.

M Manjunath Gowda, resident director, Karnataka Udyog Mitra, who pursues state projects, told ET, "The SEZ proposal was cleared by the Board of Approval (BoA) of the Union Commerce Ministry last May and final notification in this regard is pending. The notification was expected in the last month but it got delayed due to some administrative reasons. I will meet the concerned officials to expedite the process."

The final notification is getting delayed as it awaits no objection certificates (NOC) from various government agencies. In this regard, Member of Parliament from Dharwad, Prahlad Joshi met with Union Commerce Minister Anand Sharma and other top ministry officials to push the project further.

"Since the proposed SEZ in Hubli is being developed by the government's own agency it does not need NoC from the Home Ministry," said Mr Joshi. "This was apprised to the minister and the officials. The officials agreed issue final notification shortly."

Availability of land for industries was a big issue earlier in Hubli-Dharwad as the government did not have sufficient land in its possession. Due to this, the city lost the SEZ project proposed by IT giant Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).

But now, KIADB has already acquired 500 acres in Gamanagatti. KIADB chief executive officer MB Dyaberi told ET, "Once the final notification is issued, the land will be allotted from the bank." KIADB will be develop all necessary infrastructure for IT companies to set-up their facilities in the proposed IT SEZ.

The big issue

However, drawing attention on bottlenecks in the approval process, IT entrepreneur Santosh Huralikoppi said, "As all SEZs proposed by KIADB got clearance from the Centre, we are quite hopeful of this one as well. We have requested the government through district in-charge minister Jagadish Shettar to allocate at least Rs 50 crore for developing infrastructure, but no such measure has been taken. Mobilising funds and releasing it would further delay in the process."

Mr Hurulikoppi, chief executive officer, NS Infotech, a healthcare BPO is concerned, "As the state SEZ policy will expire by next year and the benefits of the policy cannot be availed if the project is delayed further."
Expressing the same apprehension Mr Joshi said that discussions will be held with the concerned ministry officials to expedite the process after issuing of final notification by the Centre. "Karnataka is holding the second edition of Global Investors Meet on June 7-8, this should make the picture on Hubli IT-SEZ clearer besides attracting fresh investments in the region." he noted.

However, North Karnataka IT Developers Association president Sridhar Pujar is positive on the recent developments but pessimistic about Hubli-Dharwad emerging as an IT-hub. "After four years of allotting land at Aryabhata Tech Park, IT companies have still not got the possession of the land. The infrastructure facilities provided at tech park are poor and substandard. If government's apathy continues to be the same, how we can expect the twin cities to emerge as an IT destination?" he said.

Mr Pujar added, "Although the city has a huge potential due its geographic location, connectivity and availability of trained human resource but both political and administrative executives have not marketed it properly. It's a good thing that the city is getting an SEZ. A committee should be formed under district minister comprising officials and IT entrepreneurs, to monitor the implementation of the project."

The total ITeS export from Hubli in 2010-11 was Rs 18 crore, according to the state IT department. At present, there are around 18 IT/ITeS companies operating from the IT Park based here. This includes Firstsource, NS Infotech, Sankalp Semiconductors, Neilsoft, Gumbi Software. Thirteen of them of have registered with the Hubli Centre of Software Technology Park of India for exporting services.

Economic Times (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/emerging-businesses/regional-hubs/south/it-sez-in-hubli-to-become-reality-soon/articleshow/13094156.cms?curpg=2)

^^ they should build sez in dharwad instead of hubli.. IT is an industry that needs soft power and good weather :cheers:

Karnataka clears Infosys' Rs 600-cr SEZ project

IT major Infosys will set up its second biggest facility worth nearly Rs 600 crore in Bangalore after it received necessary clearances from the Karnataka Government.

The new facility will be set up in north Bangalore and can seat 8,000 employees.

The Karnataka Government early this week cleared Infosys' proposal to set up an ‘IT/ITES Special Economic Zone' (SEZ) near the Bangalore International Airport.

According to Industries Department officials, the company had sought an additional 60 acres of land adjacent to the 40 acres of land already allotted to it.

The company is yet to get an official communiqué from the State Government. In May, Infosys received clearance for 7.23 acres of land near its existing IT SEZ campus in South Kanara. At that time, Infosys had said that it plans to open a software development centre of 2 million built up sq ft area with an investment of Rs 700 crore.

SHLCC (State High Level Clearance Committee) which cleared the Infosys proposal has asked its promoters to provide local employment in the project as per the Dr Sarojini Mahishi report on reservation of jobs for the locals.

The land will be allotted by the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board and also provide water of 13 lakh litres a day.

Another IT giant, Wipro earlier this month received formal approval, both from the State Government and the SEZ Board of Approval to build and operate an SEZ in Bangalore. http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/info-tech/article3452961.ece?homepage=true&ref=wl_home

Opto Circuits' SEZ by mid-2013

Opto Circuits (India) Ltd (OCIL), the Bangalore-based maker of medical diagnostics and interventional products, has commenced work on its new single-product special economic zone (SEZ) at Hassan. The company is investing close to Rs 200 crore on setting up a greenfield manufacturing facility, a top company official said.

“We have acquired 250 acres at the industrial growth centre in Hassan from Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB). Three group companies of Opto Group will set up their manufacturing facility at this SEZ. The construction work has started and we wish to complete the work in the next 12-15 months,” Valiveti Bhaskar, Head - Finance, Opto Circuits Group, told Business Standard..

He said, apart from OCIL, two other subsidiaries like Opto Eurocor Healthcare Ltd and Opto Cardiac Care Ltd are setting up their manufacturing units at Hassan SEZ. Over a period of time, the company plans to consolidate its manufacturing activity in Hassan SEZ, Malaysia and in the US for Its different products.

Presently, the company operates out of 11-12 manufacturing units across India, Malaysia and the US. It has three plants each in the US and Malaysia, and six units in India. Its Indian units are in Bangalore, Vizag, Kolkata, Chennai and in Himachal Pradesh. Another subsidiary, Advanced Micronic Systems Ltd also has a manufacturing unit in Bangalore.

Opto circuits and its subsidiaries manufacture a wide range of invasive and non-invasive medical devices like vital signs monitors, anaesthetic gas benches, cardiac monitors, stents, implants, catheters, vascular diagnostics, AEDs and consumables among others.

Bhaskar said, apart from Opto group companies, some of its vendors may also set up their manufacturing units at the Hassan SEZ.

“The company has also acquired about 33 acres in Mysore for setting up another SEZ. But, we are not looking to develop SEZ there immediately,” he said.

Opto Circuits plans to manufacture the entire range of products at the SEZ and it recently received USFDA approval for the sale of its new product, MySense Heart, a wearable Holter cardiac monitor. The company intends to launch this product in the US markets towards the end of first quarter. “We are talking to several large hospital chains in the US for selling this product at their pharmacies and also through other pharma stores in the US,” Bhaskar added.

The market for this product in the US is estimated at $100 million annually and Opto Circuits would be one of the two companies to sell this product in the US market, he said.

The company has recently entered into a partnership with Germany-based Innovint Aircraft Interior GmbH, a global maker of aircraft interior and equipment and supplier of Airbus to distribute automated external defibrillators (AEDs) on aircraft worldwide.

For year-ended March 2012, Opto Circuits has reported a 49 per cent jump in its net sales at Rs 2,357 crore over the previous year. Its net profit for the year went up 56 per cent to Rs 572 crore.

http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/opto-circuits-sez-by-mid-2013/475174/

Karnataka will handover land to Infosys, Wipro by month-end

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/248511/karnataka-handover-land-infosys-wipro.html

Hi
Thanks for the info
Which infosys sarjapur road campus is the news referring to..?
Can anybody help ? I am not able to locate any project till sarjapur ORR and sarjapur town which is 13 KM strech

Any idea what wipro campus is the news talking about
:ohno:
Wipro university or some other campus

Karnataka govt notifies land to set up IT park


Taking advantage of the location of Bangalore’s international airport, the Karnataka government has initiated a process to set up an information technology (IT) park on 50 sq. km of land north of the city.

As part of the Union government’s special investment region scheme, the state government in early May issued a preliminary notification to build an IT investment region (ITIR) on 2,082 acres of land at Devanahalli.

The first phase of the ITIR will come up 13-15km north of the Bangalore airport, said Hari Kumar Jha, managing director of Karnataka State Electronics Development Corp. Ltd, the nodal agency to implement the project.

A Union cabinet committee accorded approval for the ITIR in April.

The government will seek investments from companies to establish units at the ITIR during the Global Investors Meet next week, Karnataka chief minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda said in an earlier interview.

IT parks have played an important role in Bangalore’s status as an IT hub. Electronic City, where Bangalore’s most prominent firms such as Infosys Ltd are located, was mooted in the late 1970s by then chief minister Devaraj Urs.

The special investment region scheme was floated by the Union government in 2008 and several states have already announced plans to establish such regions, including Gujarat at Dholera, and Kerala at Thiruvananthapuram.

Under the scheme, the Union government will provide grants for developing infrastructure such as electricity, roads, sewerage and water supply in the special investment regions. While these regions themselves cannot avail tax benefits, special economic zones within them can.

In 2010, the state government passed the Karnataka IT Investment Regions Act to enable the setting up of the investment region. Jha said nearly 60% of the region will be used for production, and the remaining 40% will be used as residential areas including housing units, parks, schools and hospitals. The state government has prepared a draft master plan for the ITIR specifying parameters such as covered area, height restrictions and floor area ratio (FAR) that defines the extent of permissible development. “The master plan will be finalized in a few weeks,” said M. Maheshwar Rao, commissioner of the state’s industrial development department.

Once the master plan is prepared, the state government will choose a developer through an international competitive bidding process to build and manage the region.

Before that, the Karnataka government will have to deal with the land acquisition hurdles that have arisen. A part of the area notified for the ITIR is fertile agricultural land irrigated by the Arkavathy river. The state’s ITIR Act specifies that land acquired for the project should preferably be non-agricultural land. Two officials of the Karnataka Industries Areas Development Board (KIADB), which is undertaking the land acquisition process, independently confirmed that the board has received several objections to the proposed acquisition of irrigated land. Both declined to be identified.

“Moreover, the state government had promised to release Rs.500 crore as compensation to KIADB for the land acquisition. We are yet to receive that,” one of the officials said.

The IT industry has largely welcomed the state’s plan for an ITIR, and some companies have already expressed their interest to set up shop. Ramadas Kamath, senior vice-president, head of infrastructure, Infosys, said there was definitely a need for more IT infrastructure near Bangalore. “Talent is not an issue in Bangalore. IT companies will definitely come if infrastructure is available,” he said.

Kamath said the government will have to ensure proper connectivity to the ITIR. While the state government has tackled air connectivity by locating it near the airport, road connectivity is also good as the proposed region lies 2-3km from the national highway to Hyderabad.

The state government has also proposed a high-speed rail link project from Bangalore’s centre to the airport, which can be extended to the ITIR.

Bangalore gets crowded more....

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Karnataka govt notifies land to set up IT park

Bangalore gets crowded more....

Why can't they spread a good portion of this wealth to one_or_more equally capable tier-II cities like Bidar/Belgaum/Hubli-Dharwad/Shimoga/Hassan/Mysore/Mangalore-Udupi. Only then, other things facilities like airports / nice hotels /conference_halls /good schools ,colleges etc will follow...

I know, it is just not possible. I am just venting my anger...

Why can't they spread a good portion of this wealth to one_or_more equally capable tier-II cities like Bidar/Belgaum/Hubli-Dharwad/Shimoga/Hassan/Mysore/Mangalore-Udupi. Only then, other things facilities like airports / nice hotels /conference_halls /good schools ,colleges etc will follow...

I know, it is just not possible. I am just venting my anger...

Karnataka is doomed

Guys, I have registered at GIM and I will be going there. I met one business man from Gulburga over net who also has registered and we plan to meet. The kind of work he does, its amazing. He is into organization re-structuring. Basically Management Consultant. Highly educated, brilliantly talented, aspirational personal he is. Yet leads a quite, humble life with his family there.

Ofcourse he travels to Bangaore/ Mumbai, Chennai. But he is based out of Gulburga.

Its madness to believe that only Bangalore has talence. Every other city has talence too. It is government's responsibility to create opportunities to such talented people at their own home city. Not making them move enmasse to Bangalore and screw up the infrastructure.

ITIR encompassing all IT companies doing low end job can come in 2~ 3 TierII cities while Bangalore can retain only those that do state of the art research work. If I were the Industry minister, I would do that.

Now u see, ITIR is near International airport on 10,000 acres land. This will let all sorts of companies to check in there. From companies that programs on super computer to lowest end of the spectrum, companies that deal with manpower, labour etc. Lakhs of people will settle there and it requires whole lot of water, power etc.

Bangalore is reeling itself with water problem as Kaveri water in KRS dam is getting dried up due to drought. There is power shutdown every day. Where is the bandwidth to take additional demand for infrastructure?
This will make bangalore a Hell :bash:

^^Karnataka needs to boost its agriculture.All this service sector will anyway be growing.Farm sector can augment growth.Don't forget India shining campaign during NDA when farm sector was on top.

^^ as for agriculture, recent krishna verdict should help us lot :cheers:

Why can't they spread a good portion of this wealth to one_or_more equally capable tier-II cities like Bidar/Belgaum/Hubli-Dharwad/Shimoga/Hassan/Mysore/Mangalore-Udupi. Only then, other things facilities like airports / nice hotels /conference_halls /good schools ,colleges etc will follow...

I know, it is just not possible. I am just venting my anger...

stop whining guys, they made IT park in hubli long back and inaugurated by central govt minister but no big IT company came there. If ITIR is set up in a tier 2 city karnataka will be big loser. There is no USP for a private company to set up shop in tier 2 ka cities, instead they go for pune, hyd, kochi, kolkata etc. ITIR is something our central govt trying best not to make level playing field which they are good at, we have to compete with ITIR in other tier 1 cities.

currently only mysore and mangalore have malls, hubli needs to catch up, at least 2 malls with multiplex required to be called a city.

^^ as for agriculture, recent krishna verdict should help us lot :cheers:



stop whining guys, they made IT park in hubli long back and inaugurated by central govt minister but no big IT company came there. If ITIR is set up in a tier 2 city karnataka will be big loser. There is no USP for a private company to set up shop in tier 2 ka cities, instead they go for pune, hyd, kochi, kolkata etc. ITIR is something our central govt trying best not to make level playing field which they are good at, we have to compete with ITIR in other tier 1 cities.

currently only mysore and mangalore have malls, hubli needs to catch up, at least 2 malls with multiplex required to be called a city.

The IT park in Hubli was for namesake only, in the early years. There was hardly any infrastructure, only empty rooms like a hostel/hotel. There was no internal connectivity in the entire building. Getting connection and the initial infra support, was the responsibility of the individual owner/mgmt, a BIG Negative, IMO.

The objective of the govt should have been to encourage the companies to start their operations. The monthly rents are/were extremely high, thus totally discouraging any new company to set up its office year. Though initially Krishna govt and later JDS govt tried to reduce the initial set up cost, but it was just a gimmick. Like for example the reduced rent was for a period of 6 months, yes six months only, while the request was for at least 3-5 years. It was like back-stabbing to this region growth, compared to the benefits companies enjoyed under SEZ/ITPL in Bangalore.

I hope the situation has improved now, if someone has latest updates, pl share it with us.

gentem, you need to learn to have some patience, willingness to listen to others, else pl keep your mouth/keyboard shut.

Gentem,
You are true that if ITIR is created in Tier II cities, companies don't go there. Why they do not go there? It is because people refuse to go there as they want more of fun part like (Pubs, Malls, 5 star hotels, airport, cool joints etc.) and decent schooling for their kids.

If they are created right inside the ITIR, I bet people will come over there. What Bangalore scores over other cities is in this area.

Till 90s Bangalore was a small city when compared to Bombay and Delhi . What made the difference was that fun factor which pulled in people from all other region, MNCs flocked in and the rest is history now. Over and above, the weather is adding to the mad rush of MNCs here.

If the same magic is created in Hubli/ Dharwad, Mangalore, Mysore, Gulburga and Belgaum regions too, they too would develop and we see uniform distribution of wealth and which is the main intention of GIM or whatever we call it anyway.

^^ as for agriculture, recent krishna verdict should help us lot :cheers:



stop whining guys, they made IT park in hubli long back and inaugurated by central govt minister but no big IT company came there. If ITIR is set up in a tier 2 city karnataka will be big loser. There is no USP for a private company to set up shop in tier 2 ka cities, instead they go for pune, hyd, kochi, kolkata etc. ITIR is something our central govt trying best not to make level playing field which they are good at, we have to compete with ITIR in other tier 1 cities.

currently only mysore and mangalore have malls, hubli needs to catch up, at least 2 malls with multiplex required to be called a city.

I totally agree with you gentem.What government can do it develop multiple ITIR"s in karnataka and let companies decide what they want .If they try to force people to do things it will only back fire and lead to movement towards pune ,hyd,NCR ,Kochi.What they can do it give incentives like land @ lower cost ,power @ lower cost to woo investments

I totally agree with you gentem.What government can do it develop multiple ITIR"s in karnataka and let companies decide what they want .If they try to force people to do things it will only back fire and lead to movement towards pune ,hyd,NCR ,Kochi.What they can do it give incentives like land @ lower cost ,power @ lower cost to woo investments

ITIR's proximity to Andhra border - Chittoor being in middle/en route to 2 state capitals is more winner and next most Happening place with best Road , Rail connectivity.

They needn't go to far off places like - pune ,hyd,NCR ,Kochi. when we have a best option in our own backyard.

ITIR's proximity to Andhra border - Chittoor being in middle/en route to 2 state capitals is more winner and next most Happening place with best Road , Rail connectivity.

They needn't go to far off places like - pune ,hyd,NCR ,Kochi. when we have a best option in our own backyard.

And NK will remain as ever - backward.

And NK will remain as ever - backward.

Time to throw BJP govt from Karnataka,Join hands to bring in HDK or SM Krishna to power,Just make a quick research and you will see this BJP govt is utter shit,bihar has overtaken us in growth.

Time to throw BJP govt from Karnataka,Join hands to bring in HDK or SM Krishna to power,Just make a quick research and you will see this BJP govt is utter shit,bihar has overtaken us in growth.
i still support BJP compared to moronic congi which will be thrown out in centre and even Kenya has overtaken us in growth :-)

There is single track from hyd-blr, stop blaming railways for keeping it single track in ka railway limits. ITIR is in proximity to andhra is a joke, there is gauribidanur etc in ka itself. It is backward for whatever reason, focus on strength to come front, not forcing others down to become forward :bash: What value hubli can give compared to pune/hyd should be focused - maybe cheaper land, less traffic etc. Better i give up these backward nk people and move on than trying to convince.

What value hubli can give compared to pune/hyd should be focused - maybe cheaper land, less traffic etc. Better i give up these backward nk people and move on than trying to convince.

Gentem is like a frog in the well, and wants only his well to be developed:bash:
Development should not be Bangalore centric or South karnataka centric, it should be uniformally distributed like we find in Maharashtra, Gujarat etc..
And any good move on development should be welcomed, leaving jealousness apart:)

LCeB-AS3pZs

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PTI | Jun 6, 2012, 07.56PM IST

BANGALORE: The Karnataka government has belatedly recognized that there is a disconnect between itself and the local IT industry, which has led to some brand erosion for the highly successful industry both within the country and overseas.

The state is setting up a special IT Committee with the mandate to provide fresh impetus to the technology industry . The core committee will comprise of industry leaders like BV Naidu, former director of STPI and now involved in a private venture that supports startups, T V Mohandas Pai, former director in Infosys Technologies, Sudip Banerjee, former CEO of L&T Infotech and Sanjay Nayak, CEO of Tejas Networks.

The committee, which will work in coordination with the state IT department, will draw up a 5-year plan to improve brand IT Karnataka across the country and across customer geographies like the US and Europe. "The committee will also draw plans to double the state's IT exports from Rs 1,35,000 crore in 2011-12 to Rs 2,70,000 crore by 2017," an official close to the government said.

Karnataka previously had a Vision Group on IT headed by Infosys Technologies founder N R Narayana Murthy. The Group was active for some years, but in more recent times, little has been heard of it. It has been said that industry members in the Group were put off by the governments' seeming lack of interest in the sector.

The new entity will also focus on employment generation and inclusive growth. Currently, around 900,000 people are employed in the tech sector and the target is to create another 600,000 jobs in the next five years.

The committee will work to improve the infrastructure in secondary cities so that the industry can be expanded across the state.

"A lot more people can be employed and touched by the IT growth story of the state if more companies are willing to expand to smaller towns. Bangalore has the second largest techie concentration outside of the Silicon Valley; but we are yet to see that real spirit of entrepreneurship happening here. So entrepreneur breeding will be another focus area of the committee," the official said.

TOI (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/software-services/Karnataka-to-set-up-special-IT-committee/articleshow/13870409.cms)

The union government has approved Jubilant Infrastructure's proposed biotech SEZ in Karnataka (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/article3642650.ece)

MoU was signed in GIM-2012 but location is not decided. -- Karnataka Udyoga Mitra (http://www.kumbangalore.com/download.aspx?file=Uploads/FileUpload/GIM%20MOU%20EOI%20%20ROI%20projects.xlsx)

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Renaissance IT SEZ

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Avinash, is Renaissance IT sea is MoU case or just EoI or RoI case :nuts:

Because, i have been hearing about them since last 2 years. Just no action at all on the ground so far

Time to throw BJP govt from Karnataka,Join hands to bring in HDK or SM Krishna to power,Just make a quick research and you will see this BJP govt is utter shit,bihar has overtaken us in growth.

Bring HDK rather than Congis. Its very better. Those congi ppl will definitely take back us to 60's. I don't want to see them in power anymore. They are disgrace to our nation. Can't sustain their arrogance and attitude. They don't come out of their Blr and mysore mentality. Who'll look after North and Central K'taka if these stupids come to power. There is no chance for SMK to become CM again as these state congi leaders won't let that happen.


In next election BJP should declare Suresh Kumar as their CM candidate, it the may help them to retain their power. Either HDK or BJP in next election, growth and development are possible with these two.

Bring HDK rather than Congis. Its very better. Those congi ppl will definitely take back us to 60's. I don't want to see them in power anymore. They are disgrace to our nation. Can't sustain their arrogance and attitude. They don't come out of their Blr and mysore mentality. Who'll look after North and Central K'taka if these stupids come to power. There is no chance for SMK to become CM again as these state congi leaders won't let that happen.


In next election BJP should declare Suresh Kumar as their CM candidate, it the may help them to retain their power. Either HDK or BJP in next election, growth and development are possible with these two.

BJP is the best Option .I would rather see Congress in Power than HDK and his family

Avinash, is Renaissance IT sea is MoU case or just EoI or RoI case :nuts:

Because, i have been hearing about them since last 2 years. Just no action at all on the ground so far

well they own the land ,Thats why they have master plan done .Unless they get clients or can pre lase some 20% min .They will not go ahead with project

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I think NMIZ are for Ballari & Tumakuru.

^^
National Manufacturing Investment Zones (NMIZ) are huge industrial regions like PCPIR, ITIR or SIR. Seven NMIZs are already approved along Mumbai-Dilli Industrial Corridor. Now, the government has started identifying more NMIZs in other regions also.


National Manufacturing Investment Zones will be spread over 5,000 hectares each with world class infrastructure and clean technologies and skill development institutes. In dynamic global environment, India suffers from power and transport infrastructure gaps, making its products less competitive and these zones will help overcome these shortcomings, Talleen Kumar said.

OIFC (http://www.oifc.in/Resources/News/Government-plans-five-more-National-Manufacturing-Investment-Zones-Talleen-Kumar)


CONCEPT OF NMIZ

An area would be specifically delineated for the establishment of manufacturing facilities for domestic and export led production, along with the associated services and infrastructure.

The NMIZs would be a combination of production units, public utilities, logistics, environmental protection mechanisms, residential areas and administrative services. It would have a processing area, where the manufacturing facilities, along with associated logistics and other services and required infrastructure will be located, and a non- processing area, to include residential, commercial and other social and institutional infrastructure. The processing area may include one or more Special Economic Zones, Industrial Parks & Warehousing Zones, Export Oriented Units, DTA units duly notified under the relevant Central or State legislation or policy. All the benefits available under the relevant legislation or policy will continue to remain available to the said Zones The internal infrastructure of the NMIZ will be built and managed by a Developer, or a group of Co-developers. The external linkages will be provided by Government of India and the concerned State government. The users of external as well as internal infrastructure will pay for its use, except to the extent that the government supports the service through budgetary resource.

The NMIZ would have a governing body, which would be in the form of a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) formed with the constituents of that specific NMIZ. The SPV would have delegated authority from the State Government, Ministries in the Central Government and other Government Agencies for issuing necessary clearances, as may be necessary for the inception and continuation of business ventures inside the NMIZ.
The key feature of the NMIZs would be a more business friendly policy, procedures and approval ecosystem, combined with superior physical infrastructure.

DIPP (http://dipp.gov.in/English/Discuss_paper/NMP_DiscussionPaper_2010.pdf)


Shri Sharma said: “the NMIZ would provide good physical infrastructure, a progressive exit policy, structures to support clean and green technologies, appropriate investment incentives and business friendly approval mechanisms and each zone would have a combination of production units, public utilities, logistics, environment protection mechanisms, residential areas and administered services. The interactive session was organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and attended by a large number of representatives from Industry and senior officials of the government.
Department of Commerce (http://commerce.nic.in/pressrelease/pressrelease_detail.asp?id=2592)

Thanks so much KK even i tried to google and did not find much info = These should be developed outside bangalore for sure.

The link here provides full NMIZ policy of Government of India (GoI).

DIPP (http://dipp.gov.in/English/Discuss_paper/NMP_DiscussionPaper_2010.pdf)


Similarly GoI has PCPIR policy.

http://chemicals.nic.in/PCPIRPolicy.pdf
http://www.indiachem.in/pdf/PCPIR.pdf

I could not locate ITIR polciy or scheme of GoI.

http://deity.gov.in/content/electronics-it-industry

But, here are some links summarizing ITIR policy.

http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=37077
http://www.igovernment.in/site/ccea-nod-for-new-it-investment-regions/
http://www.exclventures.com/News-about-ITIR-Regions-India.asp

Also GoI has policies/schemes for SEZs including Free Trade and Warehousing Zones (FTWZs), Export Processing Zones (EPZs), etc.

http://www.sezindia.nic.in/goi-policies.asp

A list of Karnataka's policies & acts are here

http://www.kumbangalore.com/Sections.aspx?secid=8&MenuID=18&ParentId=3
http://www.kumbangalore.com/incentives.aspx?MenuID=25&ParentId=5
http://www.kumbangalore.com/ <--- Draft Aerospace Policy
http://www.advantagekarnataka.com/global-investor-meet/downloads.php <--- Acts & Policies
http://www.advantagekarnataka.com/images/pdf/Investors_Guide.pdf
http://karnatakaindustry.gov.in/

And Karnataka's ITIR Act is here

http://dpal.kar.nic.in/pdf_files/.%5C37of2010%20(E).pdf
http://www.bangaloreitbt.in/itir.html

Karnataka is also planning for Special Investment Regions (SIR) like Gujarat but, it does not have SIR policy. The central government also does not have any policy for SIR. Only Gujarat has SIR policy.

http://www.gidb.org/cms.aspx?content_id=95
http://www.gidb.org/downloads/presentation.pdf
http://www.gidc.gov.in/pdf/SIR-Brochure.pdf

SIRs proposed in Karnataka are

Mangalore region
North Karnataka (Exact location is not specified.)
Bangalore region

http://www.advantagekarnataka.com/investment-sector/industrial-infrastructure.php

In general NMIZ, PCPIR, ITIR are specialized versions of SIR. And GoK needs to come up with a scheme/policy for SIR soon. It may not be a big task to copy and modify Gujarat SIR Act to suit Karnataka's requirements.

http://www.advantagekarnataka.com/images/pdf/Tumkur-NIMZ-Report.pdf

I think GoK is also planning for a NMIZ in Dharawada. (Advantage Karnataka is not clear whether it is NMIZ or SIR in Dharawada.) As Ballari (VADA) and Tumakuru were older proposals I think GoI might have approved them now. (read BL (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/economy/article3505066.ece)) One more good thing about NMIZ is lot of green concepts are encouraged in the policy.

http://www.advantagekarnataka.com/images/pdf/Dharwad-Special-Investment-Region-Report.pdf
http://www.advantagekarnataka.com/images/Karnataka-Infrastructure-projects-Registation-of-Interest.pdf

Karnataka is expecting an investment of around Rs. 30,000 crores in each SIR and each NMIZ.

I think Hasana should also be identified as a multiproduct SIR with Food Processing SEZ, Textile SEZ, Pharmaceutical SEZ, proposed 'Model Industrial Area' and proposed 'Chemical and Petrochemicals Park'. In case Chennai-Bengaluru Industrial Corridor is extended to Mangaluru (as demanded by businessmen - Chennai-Bangalore corridor: Officials propose new routes‎ (http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-07-22/chennai/32788273_1_delhi-mumbai-industrial-corridor-freight-corridor-new-routes)) then Hasana can become a major Industrial Zone for export. As such now itself most of existing export processing units of Karnataka are located along Benagluru-Hasana-Mangaluru. (read page 6 of Industrial Infrastructure PDF file in Advantage Karnataka (http://www.advantagekarnataka.com/investment-sector/industrial-infrastructure.php)) Tumakuru & Mandya could also be a part of Chennai-Bengaluru-Mangaluru Industrial Corridor along with Bengaluru districts, Kolar, Chikkaballapura, etc.

Generally SIR will be a cluster of industries fed by a mother industry like a oil refinery (PCPIR) or a steel plant. What I think is SIR in Dharwara may be for steel based units fed by proposed steel plants in Gadag or Haveri. (though POSCO steel plant plan is dropped, Tata steel plant plan is still on.) If is for downstream steel manufacturing units then it could be NMIZ if the central government approves the proposal.

Tumkur is also a iron ore rich district with a few steel plants already proposed in the district is suitable for steel based manufacturing units. So, my expectation is that both Ballari and Tumakuru will be basically steel based NMIZ.

On Industrial Cooridors front, there are proposals of PRIDe Corrdior (or Chennai-Bengaluru-Mubai Corridor) and Suvarna Karnataka Corridors. The corridors will have eight-lane roads and 25 km stretch on both sides of roads will be developed with industrial clusters & zones and townships. The state policy does not talk about developing railways and airports along these corridors like DMIC (http://delhimumbaiindustrialcorridor.com/) although there are plans to develop more airports and seaports. Ideally a industrial corridor can have dedicated frieght corridors (road or rail), HSRL (as more population will be concentrated along industrial corridors), gas pipeline, etc.

http://www.advantagekarnataka.com/investment-information/pride-corridor.php
http://www.advantagekarnataka.com/investment-information/skd-corridor.php
http://www.karnatakaindustry.gov.in/documents/Karnataka%20Industrial%20Policy%202009-14%20English.pdf
http://dipp.gov.in/English/Policies/Policy.aspx

I would like to identify more SIRs along PRIDe corridor also.

Read also
http://www.allianceindia.co.in/newsite/whitepapers/SEZ.pdf

Thanks for the information KK..:cheers:

Shimoga to get India's Largest Space Park.
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x-post from Railway Development thread
It would be better

Mangalore-Madgaon-Hubli-bellary-guntakal-nandyal - Guntur - to some Port in Coastal Andhra.

Mangalore-arsikere-chikkjajur-Rayadurga-Bellary-Kadpa-Obulavaripalle-Krishnapatanam port in Nellore distict.

These would have provided the required East-West Coast Connectivity for both Logistics and Passenger Traffic view point. Future Economically Growth Corridors which will enhance the GDP of respective states and Country as such.


I think you are talking about developing industrial corridors all along these railway routes. As Ankola-Hubballi-Ballari route is already planned along with VADA (http://www.vada.gov.in/index.html) project to connect to Tadadi (http://www.idd.kar.nic.in/docs/1.Prefea_Tadadi.pdf) port we can think of extending it further from Ballari to Andhra ports on eastern side. Anyway Goa will have double track connectivity with Hubballi. And Mangaluru is connected through Konkan Railway to Ankola-Hubballi-Ballari route. As an alternative Mangaluru-Arasikere-Chikkajajuru-Rayadurga-Ballari is also fine for Mangaluru connectivity to Ballari. But, we need to double Mangaluru-Hasana route at the earliest to cater to increased goods traffic from Bengaluru-Mysuru region. I think they may start thinking of doubling of Konkan railway soon as Kochi-Mangaluru double line is alomost ready. Essentially we require enough feeder lines from Konkan route to Bengaluru-Pune-Mumbai corridor. AP can also think of improving feeder network to this corridor.

I am not sure whether AP is interested in Hyderabad-Pune-Mumbai corridor. We can also think of connecting to Vishakapatnam-Kakinada PCPIR corridor may be through Vijayawada and have a grand corridor Vishakapatnam-Kakinada-Vijayawada-Hyderabad-Pune-Mumbai. This corridor will help cities like Bidar, Gulbarga, Bijapura in Karnataka.

I don't think Nellore and Chitradurga although proposed by center will be part of Chennai-Bengaluru corridor due to realignment requests.

Ideally main corridors passing through Karnataka could be

Chennai-Bengaluru-Hubballi-Pune-Mumbai (Mysuru, Mandya, Kolara, Bengaluru, Tumakuru, Chitradurga, Davanagere, Hubballi, Belgaum in Karnataka will be benefited. Mysuru is added.)
Vishakapatnam-Kakinada-Hyderabad-Pune-Mumbai (Bidar, Gulbarga, Bijapura in Karnataka will be benefited)
Trivandrum-Mangaluru-Goa-Mumbai (Mangaluru, Udupi, Karawara in Karnataka will be benefited)

The first corrdior here is PRIDe corridor mentioned in Advantage Karnataka website. Click (http://www.advantagekarnataka.com/investment-information/pride-corridor.php).

There could be other small corridors in Karnataka like

Chitradurga-Ballari-Rayachuru-Yadagiri-Gulbarga-Bidar
Belgaum-Bijapura-Gulbarga
Chitradurga-Koppala-Bijapura
Chitradurga-Shivamogga-Udupi-Mangaluru (as a part of Mangaluru-Udupi-Shivamogga-Chikkajajuru-Rayadurga-Ballari)
Tumakuru-Shivamogga-Honnavara

These corridors are Suvaran Karnataka corridors mentioned in Advantage Karnataka website. Click (http://www.advantagekarnataka.com/investment-information/skd-corridor.php).

We also need two more corridors

Mangaluru-Hasana-Bengaluru (for Bengaluru & Mangaluru connectivity)
Ankola-Hubballi-Ballari (for VADA connectivity with Tadadi)

Then all remaining industrial regions (SEZ, SIR, Industrial Park, etc) connected to these corridors through feeder networks.

A few of infrastructure either already planned or to be developed along these corridors are frieght corridors (rail & road), passanger (normal trains, HSRL), gas pipelines, industrial infrastructure (SEZ, SIR, industrial park, industrial township), urban infrastructure (township), etc. And also seaports (Mangaluru, Padubidre, Haladipura, Tadadi) and airports.

http://www.freeimagehosting.net/newuploads/t54zd.jpg

Mysuru connection to Coimbatore-Kochin corridor is not shown.

GAIL pipeline

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Infraline (http://www.infraline.com/ong/players/GAIL/PetroleumAndNaturalGasRegulatoryBoard-GAIL.aspx)

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Infraline (http://www.infraline.com/ong/players/GAIL/PetroleumAndNaturalGasRegulatoryBoard-GAIL.aspx)

Other piplelines existing and proposed in India

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pptfree.com (http://pptfree.com/oil/oil-a-gas-marketing-co/gail-pipeline-network-map.html)

Looks like more Gas pipelines will pass through Dharawada region. Even a pipeline is planned through Gulbarga, Bijapura region.

http://nammagulbarga.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Gulbarga-2020.jpg



If all goes well and if the plan is implemented in letter and spirit in the right earnest, Gulbarga will become a National Centre of Information and Communication Technology by the year 2020.The State government has an ambitious plan of developing five cities across the State as National Centres of ICT and included among them is Gulbarga.
The task of developing Gulbarga into a National ICT centre has been entrusted to the newly constituted Karnataka ICT Group 2020 headed by T V Mohandas Pai, Chairman of Manipal Global Education Services. Apart from Gulbarga, the cities that have been planned to be developed as national ICT Centres are Hubli-Dharwad, Belgaum,Mangaloreand Mysore. The intention of the government is to develop the major cities of the State into ICT centres of national consequence covering all parts of the State. While the three districts come in North Karnataka, one each in Old Mysore region and coastal Karnataka.
Gulbarga, which is on the path of modern development is all set to have its airport in the PPP model which will be operational at any time from now.
The city is also poised to host Apparel Park and Information Technology Park the work on which has already begun. There is also a proposal to set up a Tur Industry Cluster and Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) in the historic city. The city is already hosting a Central University. The proposed National ICT Centre will make Gulbarga a city of consequence of modern technology creating a lot of employment and economic opportunities by the year 2020.
The State government has constituted an eight member KICT Group under the chairmanship of Mohandas Pai and consisting of Sagitaur Ventures India Chairman and CEO B V Naidu as the Vice-Chairman, and IIIT Bangalore Directors Sadagopan and Sudip Banerjee; Tejas Networks CEO and MD Sanjay Nayak, Director of Nasscom Bangalore, India Semiconductor Association Chairman, and TiE Bangalore President as members. The group has been constituted with the vision and mission of maintaining the growth of ICT in Karnataka.
There is said to be tremendous scope for development and expansion of ICT in the State which is evident from the State generating ICT revenue to the tune of Rs1.35 lakh crore at present.
The target is to increase it to Rs 4 lakh crore by 2020; increase the employment in ICT from 8 lakh to 20 lakh; Create/ help incubate 1,000 startups/ entrepreneur driven companies.
Apart from setting up national ICT centres in the Tier- II cities strategies before the KICT Group include making Bangalore the global city of choice in ICT; set up incubation facilities in the national centres; Set up partnership with Singapore, Japan, Australia, France, Taiwan and Germany to accelerate business cooperation and entrepreneurship.
In order to remain in the race of global competition and to exploit the opportunities to the fullest possible the government has decided to go for the measures to reap maximum dividends by 2020 in the ICT sector. This has also become imperative with the industry experts predicting 15 per cent annual growth in ICT industry and also to increase the State’s share in the global ICT market.


http://nammagulbarga.com/gulbarga-news/state-to-develop-gulbarga-into-a-national-ict-centre

Srikanth Kallammanavar Madikeri: Sept 9 , 2012 DH News Service

Building work has remained incomplete for last four years

The work on the building to house electronic equipment assembling centre, at Industrial layout in Madikeri has remained incomplete for the last three to four years.

As heavy industries can not be set up in Kodagu district owing to its unique geography, the authorities had decided to promote small industries catering to the needs of electronics sector. Hence, Karnataka State Small Industries Development Corporation took up the work on the building three to four years ago.

With Madikeri receiving heavy rains for six months in a year, no major industries can be developed. Hence, to provide employment to the locals, the KSSIDC former president T P Ramesh had decided to set up electronic equipment assembling centre way back in 1997-99.

As per the decision of T P Ramesh, the work on the building commenced after several years. The work on three- floor building has remained incomplete even after three to four years. The contractor has stopped the work demanding additional funds with the steep increase in the price of construction materials, says the officials.

The official in the Corporation is least bothered to complete the work on the building. The building structure which was developed spending lakhs have remained incomplete and have become shelter for stray dogs and nomadic tribes.

DHNS (http://www.deccanherald.com/content/277595/equipment-assembling-centre-waiting-facelift.html)

Top-notch talent pool lures IT, BPO firms to Karnataka

The trend points to manpower availability for skills that are more than plain vanilla outsourcing work that companies indulged in earlier.

BANGALORE, SEPT. 5:
Despite a slowdown, Karnataka continues to draw IT and BPO companies due to the large talent pool and specialised skill sets.

In the last two months, four IT and BPO companies have opened development centres in Karnataka.

Nasdaq-listed Pegasystems opened a new development centre totalling 55,000 square feet in workspace. The Bangalore centre will support its global operations and will deliver R&D, engineering services, industry solutions framework and customer support to its global Fortune 500 clients, similar to other software majors.

In July, Xchanging, a London Stock Exchange (LSE)-listed IT and BPO company opened a new centre in Shimoga Special Economic Zone and aims to hire 3,000 people by 2013.

Similarly, Serco, a BPO company this week opened a new facility at Shimoga and plans to have a total headcount of 450 people by November. The facility will offer BPO services to a leading privately held telecom company.

‘ATTRACTIVE PROPOSITION’

According to analysts, despite higher costs due to inflation, availability of talent still makes it an attractive proposition.

“We did not open operations only due to cost but to help us drive the next wave of growth based on our value proposition,” said Alan Trefler, founder and CEO, Pegasystems.

“No other location in the world offers the large pool of quality talent found in cities such as Bangalore. They offer a bundle of distinct and mutually reinforcing benefits which companies can leverage for competitive advantage,” said Peter Schumacher, CEO, Value Leadership Group.

A further proof of this can be seen from the fact that this month, Ellucian, a company that provides technology for higher education opened a new development centre in the heart of Bangalore.

All this points to manpower availability for skills that are more than plain vanilla outsourcing work that companies indulged in earlier.

“Companies are focussing on areas such as predictive analytics for the US financial sector, regulatory compliance related work etc. as compared to call centre kind of jobs,” said Sanjoy Sen, senior director, Deloitte.

PREMIUM ON TALENT

Sidhant Rastogi, director, Zinnov, said: “In most cases, companies setting up their centres were unable to find the right talent in the right number in their native geography, or could not source talent locally in the near future.”

A recent study by Zinnov found that India will produce 250,000 engineers from only tier 1 engineering colleges over the next five years.

The Hindu (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/info-tech/article3862649.ece?ref=wl_industry-and-economy)

Proposal to set up 'Taiwanese City? in Bangalore for hardware manufacturing, on track
Bibhu Ranjan Mishra / Bangalore Sep 25, 2012, 16:20 IST

If Taiwan is the hub for electronic hardware manufacturing, India is also setting an eye to create electronic manufacturing hub within the country, with the help of Taiwanese companies.

The Taiwanese government has approached Karnataka to set up 'Taiwanese City’, an integrated township which will be used both for residential as well as for housing hardware manufacturing industries.

According to official sources, Karnataka government has given them the options of two sites for the 'Taiwanese City’. These include 1,400 acres of land in Narsapur in Kolar district of Karnataka and 700 acres of land near the international airport in Devanahalli. As per the proposal, 30 per cent of the township will be reserved for electronic industries and the balance will be used for residential purposes.

A Taiwanese delegation including representatives from the industry is expected to visit the state to finalise between the two places, sources in the government said. However, he said that one of the pre-conditions that Taiwan has set for the project is that only Taiwanese companies will be allowed to set up shops in the “Taiwanese City’.

“While we are keen to acquire expertise in electronic hardware manufacturing, they want only the Taiwanese companies to come and set up operations in the proposed city. This makes us to think twice since we want to open this for hardware industries from all parts of the world,” the official added.

He said the government will take a final decision on the project once the Taiwanese delegation take a call on the location where they want to set up the city.

The government of India has laid an ambitious policy to promote the electronic hardware manufacturing sector in the country. As the first step in this direction, the government renamed the Department of Information Technology (DIT) as the Department of Electronics and IT (DEITY), earlier this year.

With the renewed focus on electronics, the government expects to narrow the gap in domestic production and mammoth imports of electronics which is expected to touch $300 billion by 2020.

BS (http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/taiwanese-manufacturing-sector-may-haveclone-in-karnataka/188367/on)

Karnataka govt to open integrated Taiwan township (http://voicendata.ciol.com/content/news1/112092801.asp)

Bangalore, September 27, 2012, DHNS:

Karnataka government has reiterated its aim to take the contribution of the manufacturing sector to its GDP from the current 17 per cent to 20 per cent as it realised the need for an impetus in the neglected sector.

“For 220 million jobs to be created by 2025, the manufacturing sector is of utmost importance as it also creates a lot of other subsidiary employments,” Karnataka Industries Minister Murugesh Nirani said, addressing the joint inauguration of EMMA Expo and Indian Manufacturing Show here.

This year, the expo will showcase Taiwan’s electronic and ICT products, machinery, auto-parts, food processing and green technology to the Indian market.

At the expo, Mahindra & Mahindra Chairman Anand Mahindra echoed similar views and said that the country has for the past few decades been believing that India’s IT sector would leap ahead of China’s manufacturing sector and compensated for India’s growth in manufacturing.

DHNS (http://www.deccanherald.com/content/281527/karnataka-stresses-20-gsdp-manufacturing.html)

For export currently, IT number 1, Gems & Jewellery number 2, Petroleum products number 3.

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Aissel product development centre opened in Hubli

HUBLI, OCT. 2:
Aissel Solutions, an analytics and CRM solutions provider which has presence in US and India, has opened its product development centre at Hubli.

The company’s centre is located at Hubli’s IT Park. “This will be the key development centre of Aissel and has over 3,500 square feet of space with high-bandwidth connectivity,” Prasad Patil, CEO Aissel told Business Line.

So far Aissel has been able to deliver solutions to its clients in the US and has created product for medical thought leader management and is competing with few Silicon Valley based pharma CRM providers.

Early this year, the company has signed up with three global pharmaceutical / medical devices companies to implement business intelligence (BI) software and analytics solutions.

Prasad said “We are currently working with a Minnesota based company supporting their dental division in finding out the right dental experts in the US, who they can partner with to grow the products sales.”

The new facility was opened by Vijay Sankeshwar, Chairman and Managing Director, VRL Logistics. The first two employees of the company, Amit Vikram and Nityanand Channur were also honoured.

The company currently has 30 people in Hubli centre and has plans to double the head count by end of this year.

“There were a lot of apprehensions when we started off about a year and a half back in Hubli. Getting experienced people in Hubli was difficult especially in a challenging product development environment,” Patil said.

“Now the team determines the success and there is tremendous availability of talented people in the region and the KOL Management product was released to the global market in less than a year’s time,” he added.

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/info-tech/article3958440.ece?homepage=true&ref=wl_home

Hubli Joins The Circuit

Karnataka's Hubli is home to growing bunch of tech start-ups


Karnataka's Hubli is home to growing bunch of tech start-ups

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An innocuous sentence in a presentation that Sasisekar Krish was making to a friend changed his company in ways he could never have imagined. He said: "We also sort nuts."

Krish's start-up, Nanopix, was selling image processing services to automotive companies around Chennai in 2009. Their factories needed cameras to inspect the dimensions of components such as nuts and bolts. But Ankesh Jain, a castor oil supplier with contacts in the automobile industry of Hubli, a city in northern Karnataka, thought "nuts" meant cashews, and phoned a local exporter.

Krish was aware of the confusion, but was loath to give up. Sitting in a Cafe Coffee Day in the city's Travellers Bungalow Road, the IIT Madras graduate who worked for seven years with Wipro in Bangalore, downloaded pictures of cashews and wrote a program that could distinguish the colour and size of the nuts.

"It works," he told the exporter, who stared at him in disbelief. Cashew nuts need inspection, too. Sorting them is labour-intensive and expensive, so why not automate? :lol:


The exporter agreed, but gave him no business. Undeterred, Krish decided to build a machine anyway. The first one was ready by October 2010. Using imageprocessing algorithms, the machine can capture, process and analyse 18 cashew nuts a second, sorting them into 12 varieties based on size, colour, surface finish and shape. He has sold three machines to date, for Rs 25 lakh each.

Nanopix started in Bangalore, but moved to Hubli where it got incubation space, mentorship and funding from the Deshpande Foundation, set up by Indian-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist Gururaj Deshpande. The foundation works to develop social entrepreneurship.

Krish, now 35, is hardly alone. A bunch of IT services companies, including many software start-ups, have popped up in Hubli in recent years. "Five years back, there were only three IT companies in the city," says Vivek Pawar, CEO of chip design company Sankalp Semiconductors. "On average, they employed around 10 people. Now, we have more than 20 companies with an average of 20-25 people." Sankalp is based in Hubli.


Remarkably, the city never figured on India's tech map and not even in the Karnataka government's scheme of things. A presentation by the state government for its much publicised Global Investors' Meet in June this year showcased the IT parks of Karnataka's Tier 2 cities - Gulbarga, Mangalore, Mysore, and Shimoga. Hubli, which has two IT parks, was given a miss.

Hubli is a sleepy city of around 200 square kilometres. It missed the bus in the mid-1990s, when large IT services companies such as Infosys first thought of Tier 2 locations such as Mangalore and Mysore. Hubli had neither an airport nor the kind of history that benefited many locations. For example, the proliferation of defence and electronics public sector units in Bangalore and Mysore led to the clustering of engineering colleges in the region, offering a perfect setting when software services took root. Pune, too, has seen the growth of outsourced R&D companies because its automotive and mechanical engineering heritage dates back to the 1940s.


'We are thinking how the college can directly impact the regional economy,' says Ashok Shettar, Principal, BVB College

Hubli, by contrast, was a centre for trade in cotton and iron during the Vijayanagar empire. Then came handloom textile units and cotton processing mills, and much later, the manufacture of products such as industrial valves. An auto cluster is on the rise now, but technology was always an alien. All this is set to change as a bunch of young entrepreneurs fight to establish the city's identity in the Bangaloredominated world of IT. Operating expenses in Hubli are much lower than in Bangalore. The starting salary for a BPO employee is Rs 6000 to Rs 7,000, as opposed to at least Rs 10,000 to Rs 12,000 in Bangalore.

An ecosystem is also brewing. Besides the 20-odd tech entrepreneurs, Hubli has academia, global mentors, The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE, a group formed in Silicon Valley in the US, to encourage entrepreneurship), incubation facilities, fastgrowing infrastructure, and now, Jagadish Shettar, Chief Minister of Karnataka. Shettar grew up, practiced law in, and got elected to the Assembly from Hubli, some 400 km northwest of Bangalore.


"We have sufficient land in Hubli-Dharwad for IT companies," he says. "Whatever incentives we provided to IT investors in Bangalore in the beginning, the same kind of support will be available to investors in Hubli, too."

Many entrepreneurs in Hubli count him among their friends. Shettar, as Karnataka's revenue minister in 2009, played a crucial role in getting 48 acres sanctioned for the Aryabhata Tech Park, which allowed 10 companies access to cheap land. Another 500 acres or so has been identified between Hubli and its twin city, Dharwad. The buzz is that two large Indian IT services companies with hubs in Bangalore may soon make Hubli a spoke in their business model.


Hubli's start-ups, meanwhile, are scaling up fast and increasingly doing complex work for global customers. Able Design Engineering Services, which does product design, is also a leading bus design company, with customers such as Tata Marcopolo and UK coach maker Alexander Dennis. NS Infotech has hired a team of MTechs to redesign components for GE's steam turbine systems. Nextgen Digital Imaging Services has developed software to turn photos into designer e-albums.

Sankalp Semiconductors, the biggest of the lot with 450 employees and $10 million in revenues, designs analog chips for devices such as mobile phones, TV, and modems. Its customers include the world's largest chipmakers. It is working on a 20-nanometer project, the latest manufacturing process node in semiconductors. In layman's terms, it is designing chip components that are 0.02 microns thick (a strand of human hair is 50 to 100 microns). With each new node, the chips get smaller, consume less power and improve in performance.
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Sankalp's CEO Vivek Pawar is a slim, bearded and voluble man. He talks so fast that his words get jumbled at times. A cancer survivor, Pawar dreamt of starting a company while meditating on a mountain near Salt Lake City in the US in 2003. He wanted to be in Hubli for reasons beyond cost. Retaining talent was easier, and there was that ulterior motive - he wanted to do " something for India".

"If Sankalp could become successful in a Tier 2 city, so could any other company," he says during a conversation frequently interrupted by phone calls and colleagues. He recalls the trend set by chipmaker Texas Instruments, which came to Bangalore in 1985. "Every other company from the US followed. Bangalore grew this way."


'If our company could become successful in a Tier 2 city, so could any other company,' says Vivek Pawar, Sankalp Semiconductors.

He says the mentorship of Gururaj Deshpande, also called Desh, is changing how local entrepreneurs think and function. Desh prodded Pawar to expand sales in the US during the 2009 recession. Sankalp benefited as US chipmakers ramped up projects as soon as the economy started to pick up. Desh also advised Sankalp to buy the semiconductor hardware solutions business of mid-tier player KPIT Cummins. Pawar parted with a 15 per cent stake in his company to acquire the arm in July 2012.

Desh, who left India in 1973, has founded and invested in about 10 companies, including Sycamore Networks, Cascade Communications and Coral Network Corporation. His biggest investment in India is Bangalore optical networking technology company Tejas Networks. But in Hubli, he wants to help small companies grow. He was instrumental in bringing TiE to Hubli, where its energetic head, Naveen Jha, now advises many start-ups.
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Santosh Huralikoppi's NS Infotech designs for GE

"There's Nanopix," says Desh, who is visiting Hubli, and speaking with Business Today while sitting barefoot in the Deshpande Foundation office on the campus of the B.V. Bhoomaraddi (BVB) College of Engineering & Technology. "We also funded AquaSafi, which has found a way to purify water. These are all smaller ideas. We'd love to see 100 companies have 100 people each and create 10,000 jobs, as opposed to one large company that employs 10,000." :cheers:

BVB College, founded in 1947, is a hub of start-up action in the city. Principal Ashok Shettar is seemingly impressed by a 2009 Kauffman Foundation report, which says that if companies founded by graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were a country, it would be the world's 17th largest economy with revenues of $2 trillion.

"We have reached a stage where we produce very good graduates," says principal Shettar. "We added value to North Karnataka. Then we started thinking if the college can directly impact the regional economy. Can it go beyond human resources development and research?"

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Californian Anurag Sridharan is CEO, NextDrop

The college has incubated seven companies on its campus, giving them free space, Internet connections and office furniture. The list includes companies started by alumni. Biosyl Technologies, which designs research equipment, was formed in June 2012 by BVB biotechnology graduates, Sarah D'Souza and Amit Vernekar.

Shashank Revankar, an electronic engineering graduate of the college, started Kooki, an embedded electronics product company, also in June. Kooki is designing a prototype for its first product, a home security system that can be operated through a smartphone. "We have a team of five, all studying at BVB College," says Revankar. "They will join full-time once they graduate next year. I will top whatever salary they are offered by any company."

Hubli's entrepreneurs have a challenge, though. Retaining talent is easier than in, say, Bangalore, but getting mid- to senior-level people to move to a Tier 2 location is tough. Pawar's Sankalp had to award senior executives significant equity.

On the brighter side, executives from outside the country are willing to relocate to Hubli to jump-start a venture. Born and raised in California, Anurag Sridharan, 25, is CEO of NextDrop, a service that alerts subscribers via SMS about when the civic authorities will turn the water on (Hubli's taps have water only once in every two to five days). "I am loving it," she says. "I wanted to run a business and that is what I am doing."

Business Today (http://businesstoday.intoday.in/story/hubli-in-karnataka-home-to-growing-bunch-of-tech-start-ups/1/188881.html)


Hubli is developing faster than Mysore and Mangalore I have always stood by that argument.Hubli has a huge talent pool and will forge ahead.:banana:
Hubli will beat Mysore in few years down the line.

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Hubli to get IT-SEZ soon, Commerce Min may give nod to KIADB (http://www.infrawindow.com/projects/it-sez-in-hubli_1128/hubli-to-get-it-sez-soon-commerce-min-may-give-nod-to-kiadb_152/)

The Union Ministry of Commerce is mulling over issuing a final notification on the approval of a proposal by the Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB) to set up an IT-SEZ in Hubli.

Once the project is completed it could provide a fillip to the state government's initiative to develop Hubli-Dharwad into a prominent IT hub in the Northern Karnataka region, according to industry insiders. KIADB had proposed to develop the SEZ on around 30 acres at Gamanagatti area in Hubli-Dharwad.

After this three-year-old project gets a final nod from the Centre it will be up to the state to take it further. Till now the state government has agreed tohelp KIADB for installing industrial infrastructure.

M Manjunath Gowda, resident director, Karnataka Udyog Mitra, who pursues state projects, said "The SEZ proposal was cleared by the Board of Approval (BoA) of the Union Commerce Ministry last May and final notification in this regard is pending. The notification was expected in the last month but it got delayed due to some administrative reasons. I will meet the concerned officials to expedite the process."

The final notification is getting delayed as it awaits no objection certificates (NOC) from various government agencies. In this regard, Member of Parliament from Dharwad, Prahlad Joshi met with Union Commerce Minister Anand Sharma and other top ministry officials to push the project further.

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The project involves implementation of IT SEZ in Hubli, Dharwad District of Karnataka.

IT SEZ in tier II cities has to be invested by companies itself like the Infosys in Mangalore, Mysore..
Or else it fates will be like Aryabhatta IT Park of Hubli and the new one in Shimoga..

I dont think other cities in Karnataka are still ready accept IT in large scale. Other than Mangalore and Mysore.

Almost all Engineering colleges in Mangalore get campus placements in large number. This is what I heard from my juniors

Unfortunately there is no progress in IT park for Mangalore, proposed by KEONICS along with other in state. Shimoga got shaped up, Hubli is in planning.

Dont forget the IT SEZ notified in Mangalore at Konaje was fully occupied by Infosys and there is EPIP proposed too and land has been marked with roads, But govt is not providing enough support and infrastructure there

City based IT firm bags ‘Business and Service Excellence Award 2012’ (http://www.coastaldigest.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46195:city-based-it-firm-bags-business-and-service-excellence-award-2012&catid=57:news-stories&Itemid=68)

Mangalore, October 16: City based IT firm InfosoftX, has bagged the prestigious ‘Business and Service Excellence Award 2012’.

The Award function was held in Bangalore by Big Research India and its media partner NDTV Profit. The Award was honored by chief guest Krishnamachari Srikanth, Chairman Selection Committee, National Cricket Team of India.

Jeena Jenet Furtado, Corporate Relation Officer of InfosoftX, Mangalore, received the award.

InfosoftX was Initiated in the year of 2011 by M A Majeed. With its registered office in Mangalore, InfosoftX is one of the upcoming IT firm, primarily focusing on IT services - web, windows and mobile based application development and

maintenance expertise.

KSIIDC appointed nodal agency for industrial PPPs
Corporation to work on setting up National Manufacturing Investment Zone, Special Investment Regions in state

NMIZ to come up in Trumkur and other one to be decided b/w Gulbarga & Dharwad..:banana:

http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/ksiidc-appointed-nodal-agency-for-industrial-ppps/489794/

Gulbarga Gets KEONICS IT Park

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Finally, Inauguration of KEONICS IT Park Gulbraga today
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The much-awaited Gulbarga IT park will be inaugurating by Chief Minister Sri Jagadish Shettar in the presence of Sri Mallikarjun Kharage, Revunaik Belamagi, Sunil vaillyapur,Smt Aruna Chandarashekar Patil and many officers, inauguration at 3.00 PM in IT Park, Opp High Court Gulbarga.

The inauguration of the park had been deferred a couple of times due to various reasons.

Yahoo Software Development India bags STPI export award (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/info-tech/yahoo-software-development-india-bags-stpi-export-award/article4012776.ece)

BANGALORE OCT 19:
Yahoo Software Development India, Bangalore has bagged the Software Technology Parks of India’s (STPI) 2012 award for ‘High growth in IT/ITES exports’ (between Rs 500 crore and Rs 1,000 crore).

Ernst & Young, Bangalore has bagged the award for between Rs 100 crore and Rs 500 crore and Scandisk India Device Design Centre, Bangalore for between Rs 25 crore and Rs 100 crore.

STPI IT Export Awards 2012 were given at the ongoing Bangalore IT.biz 2012 event at KTPO Whitefield, Bangalore on Thursday night.

Murgesh Nirani, Karnataka Minister for Large and Medium Industries, was the chief guest along with N. Vittal, Chairman of Vittal Innovation City, while Omkar Rai, Director General of STPI India, was the Guest of Honour.

The other award winners are: Software Paradigms India: Highest Exporter IT from Mysore Region. Sys Information Healthcare India: Highest Exporter ITES from Mysore Region.

Karnataka Mircoelectronic Design Centre: Highest Exporter IT from Mangalore Region. Robosoft Technologies: Highest Exporter ITES from Mangalore Region.

Sankalp Semiconductor: Highest Exporter IT from Hubli Region. Ritescribe Med Info: Highest Exporter ITES from Hubli Region. Rangsons Electronic, Mysore - Highest Growth in electronic hardware exports (Tier II and Tier III region).

Mistral Solutions, Bangalore - Highest Growth in Electronic Hardware Exporter (exports less than Rs 100 crore). Centrum Electronics, Bangalore - Highest Growth in electronic Hardware Exports (above Rs 100 crore).

24/7 Customer.com, Bangalore: Highest New Jobs Creator– ITES. Capgemini India: Highest New Jobs Creator– IT. Volvo India, Bangalore: Highest Exports per employee–ITES. Google India, Bangalore: Highest Exports per employee–IT.

Quintiles Technologies India, Bangalore: Highest percentage of Women Employer–ITES. TESCO Hindustan Service Centre, Bangalore: Highest percentage of Women Employer–IT.

Meera Narendra, Founder Director Vinayas Innovative Technologies, Mysore: Women Enterpreneur of the year – IT.

Yahoo Software Development India bags STPI export award (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/info-tech/yahoo-software-development-india-bags-stpi-export-award/article4012776.ece)

Highest New Jobs Creator– IT. Volvo India, Bangalore

LoL no top company could make it this year?

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Karnataka submits plan for industrial zone near Bangalore

The Karnataka government has submitted a plan to set up a mega industrial zone on the outskirts of Bangalore to the Union government under the new national manufacturing policy.

The National Investment and Manufacturing Zone (NIMZ) is planned for Tumkur, around 70kms from Bangalore. The state is actively pushing for establishment of the Tumkur NIMZ and will provide financial support, said Murugesh Nirani, Karnataka heavy industries minister.

“The state has already zeroed in on 45 sq. kms of land that is currently available with the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB),” said a Karnataka State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corp. Ltd (KSIIDC) official.

This was independently confirmed by a KIADB official. Both spoke on condition of anonymity. Under the manufacturing policy, an NIMZ is spread over 50-100 sq. kms.

Two NIMZs have also been proposed for Bellary and Dharwad, but the plans are yet to be forwarded to the Union government, the KSIIDC official said.

Crisil Risk and Infrastructure Solutions Ltd has prepared pre-feasibility reports for Tumkur and Dharwad. According to the report on Tumkur zone, reviewed by Mint, the project is envisaged as a public-private partnership, with viability gap funding (VGF) from the state and the central governments.

The KSIIDC official said it would cost around Rs.30,000 crore to develop the zone, but the Crisil report said it was premature to develop cost estimates. The report said Tumkur was chosen with Bangalore in mind.

“The proximity to Bangalore is one of the biggest strengths of Tumkur which makes it a natural extension point for industries that have been forced to look at alternative locations due to the large influx of IT (information technology) and BPO (business process outsourcing) related entities, which has put intense pressure on land prices in Bangalore,” the report said.

Tumkur also has substantial iron ore reserves and will be suitable for ancillary industries as well, the report noted.

The central government’s VGF is expected to allow financing of up to 20%, while the state is expected to provide a VGF mechanism of an additional 20%. “Manufacturing jobs will help in improving employment in Karnataka, and this has been the focus of the government in the recently held global investors meet,” Nirani said.

The new manufacturing policy is an initiative of the department of industrial policy and promotion to push the sector and boost growth. Under the scheme, the government will help set up manufacturing zones with robust physical infrastructure.

The government has notified nine NIMZs—one each in Haryana, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, two in Rajasthan and three in Maharashtra.

The zone will be managed by a special purpose vehicle and its development will be managed via special business units selected by the SPV.

According to the Crisil report, the state has two options to develop the NIMZ—set up separate units to handle each of the infrastructure requirements and another unit for land development, or establish two units for infrastructure and land development services. “It is recommended the second option be chosen for ensuring seamless service provisioning,” the Crisil report noted.

http://www.livemint.com/Politics/XqIiyfmgKkm82qUBW15hlO/Karnataka-submits-plan-for-industrial-zone-near-Bangalore.html

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KSIIDC appointed nodal agency for industrial PPPs

Corporation to work on setting up National Manufacturing Investment Zone, Special Investment Regions in state

The Karnataka government, which is seeking Centre’s approval to set up the National Manufacturing Investment Zone (NMIZ) in Tumkur, has appointed Karnataka State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (KSIIDC) as the nodal agency to implement the project.

The appointment of KSIIDC as the nodal agency is based on a recommendation from the commissioner of industries.

According to a government order, KSIIDC will take forward the proposed NMIZ besides two other projects such as developing Special Investment Region (SIR) in Dharwad and model industrial layout in Hassan through a public private partnership (PPP) model.

“The state government is looking at taking a holistic and integrated approach towards developing NMIZ or SIR apart from other large industrial investment projects. The role of KSIIDC will be to provide handholding support to various key investment projects. It will provide support from the concept to implementation,” M Maheshwara Rao, Commissioner of industries, government of Karnataka told Business Standard.

The Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion, Ministry of Commerce & Industry has promoted the idea of NMIZ as part of the National Manufacturing Policy (NMP). This is an initiative to push the share of manufacturing sector in increasing GDP of the country.

The government is targeting to increase the share of the manufacturing sector in the GDP to at least 25 per cent by 2020 from the present 16 per cent. To achieve this target, the government mooted the concept of NMIZs, which will be mega industrial zones with world class supporting infrastructure.

The government is offering a host of incentives like exemption from capital gains tax and a liberalised labour and environment norms to promote these zones. The NMP proposes to create 100 million jobs by 2020.

The main focus of KSIIDC is to provide the required infrastructure to NMIZ or SIR. It will facilitate various approvals from the state and central governments for developing NMIZ in a time bound manner, Rao said.

“In order to implement the NMIZ and SIR in the state, there is a need to undertake pre-feasibility study of the projects, provide all the required escort services to the proposed public private partnership projects at various levels of implementation and monitoring. All these services will be provided by KSIIDC,” Rao said.

The Chief Minister of Karnataka has already addressed a letter to Prime Minister requesting for approval for establishment of two NMIZ in Karnataka, of which one will be in Tumkur. The government is also looking at either Gulbarga or Dharwad for the second NMIZ.

http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/ksiidc-appointed-nodal-agency-for-industrial-ppps/489794/

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Karnataka's IT/ITeS sector exempted from Industrial Employment Act till 2013

The IT and IT-enabled services (ITeS) industries in Karnataka may heave a sigh of relief for few months as the state government has decided to exempt them from all the provisions of the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act 1946, till 31 March 2013.

In a notification issued last month, Karnataka government has stated that it has decided to “exempt the IT/ITeS/software establishments in the state from all the provisions of the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act 1946”, exercising the powers conferred by section 14 of the Act.

Employers belonging to these sectors, who come under the purview of the Act, will have to submit their draft standing orders for the certification to the Labour Commissioner by 31 December 2012, it added.

IT companies in Karnataka enjoyed full exemption from this Act since 1999. However, when the exemption of these norms expired in August 2011, the state government had decided not to renew it further.

Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act 1946, which prescribes uniform orders for industrial establishments employing 100 or more workers, requires that there is due classification of workforce into permanent, temporary, casual and skilled workers.

It also prescribes for a clear delineation of rules pertaining to working hours, attendance, leave, holidays, wages, shifts, transfers, suspension and termination, acts of misconduct and retirement age among others.

As per the provision, employers, who come under the purview of this Act, are required to formulate standing orders around these issues and share those with workers after due certification by the Labour Commissioner.

http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/karnatakas-itites-sector-exemptedindustrial-employment-act-till-2013/192331/on

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Source:http://navikadaily.blogspot.in/

IT-SEZ space to get Brigade group boost at Ganjimath


MANGALORE: Bangalore based Brigade group that launched its first luxury residential project - Brigade Pinnacle at Derebail here on Saturday is making a major foray into building IT office space at Ganjimath. The company which has drawn plans to set up 2.5 million square feet of IT office space at the exclusive IT-SEZ coming up at Ganjimath enroute Moodbidri and make a start by constructing 3 lakh square feet with work starting in January 2013.

M R Jaishankar, chairman and managing director of the group interacting with reporters said the company has been allocated 25 acres of space in the IT-SEZ with a 1-km road frontage. "IT sector in this tier-II city is yet to realise its potential but for the almost singular presence of Infosys," he said adding that relative closeness to the Mangalore international airport will make the IT office space that the group intends to put attractive to IT majors.

"We are in talks with IT majors as regards this project," he said not disclosing their names for business reasons, but going on to add that the project will include seven buildings and one infrastructure support building for the need of employees who will work there. "If anyone wants the entire or major portion of the 2.5 million square feet, the group is ready to deliver the same to the client in the scheduled time frame of 24-months," Jaishankar said.

Referring to Brigade Pinnacle, Jaishankar said this marks group's entry into niche residential segment. "We do not have any immediate plan to venture into office or retail space in the city as of now," he said adding that the group will also come up with a project that provides value homes for people of this coastal city. The group will have a permanent office in the city to deal with its customers and also liaison with them through its overseas offices as well.

TOI (http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-11-03/mangalore/34892432_1_office-space-brigade-group-luxury-residential-project)

Private SEZ for IT in Mangalore gets green signal from Govt. (http://www.coastaldigest.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47000:private-sez-for-it-in-mangalore-gets-green-signal-from-govt&catid=57:news-stories&Itemid=68)

Mangalore, November 4: A ‘Private Special Economic Zone’ is on its way to come up in Mangalore, meant exclusively for Information Technology.

Having got the green signal from the government, process for the setting up of the Zone has begun.

The government has provided 25 acres of land in Ganjimatt on the outskirts of Mangalore to a private company. Leveling of land and construction of compound wall work is going on. In two months the construction work of the Information Technology building will begin.

The building is slated to come up at an area of 3 lakh square feet. A separate building to provide basic facilities will be set up wherein restauarant, bank, ATM, post office, market, general store and similar such facilities will be provided. Prominent IT companies are likely to set up their centres here.

IT companies that will come up in this Private Special Economic Zone will be given concession on tax by the government. All required licences for setting up of companies will be provided under single window provision.

Bangalore’s popular construction company Brigade Group will set up this Private Special Economic Zone. Within 60 days, the company is looking to begin the construction work of the building. Brigade Group has offices in Bangalore, Dubai, US and Mangalore

^^
Looks like EPIP is getting materilazed.. Even the phase II land acquisition was notified there, dont know what happened for that..
There were news that long ago all plots were occupied there.. Even Nithish developers had plans there and had released the renders too.. Now their website has no details on that..

Now coming to the location.. Its a perfect place with scenic mountains around just like the Nethra campus of Infy..
But the connectivity for the city is not good.. Not even a proper two laned road is present.
The great advantage of this location is nearness to airport.. later govt may develop a separate road to airport..

The most promising residential location in Mangalore, Shaktinagar is on the way from Mangalore-Gunjimutt road, One of the Finest Mall Lotus Mall (http://www.lotusshoppingcentres.com/mangalore) is also on the way..

Manasa Amusement park (http://www.manasapark.com/), Dr Shivram Karanth Pilikula Zoological park (http://pilikulazoo.com/index.php) Are also nearer to Gunjimutt..

I feel Development of Gunjimutt will help development of Moodbidre than Mangalore.
Already it has good medical and educational infrastructure..
A mall has also been proposed there with multiplex, giving a good environment for techies..

Thank you

http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/5205/ganjimatt.jpg

Some construction already happening at Ganjimutt EPIP, Can anybody elaborate this..

Went to Ganjimatt SEZ yesterday the first circle near the roads is of 2 buildings u/c looks like an office building the other circle is an big industrial shed already constructed and another one is u/c, and some more i think are underway, i think it has started functioning or yet to start , because i saw 3 new company buses parked in their premises
company name -BIGBAGS PVT INTERNATIONAL.
http://newcompanies.in/projects/new-plastics-project-by-big-bags-international-pvt-ltd/
Saw another site near to this also like an industrial shed may be it is this company, because i heared a gulf company was planning to set up shop here
http://www.eurogrupp.com/html/contacts.html

BRIGADE GROUP is building its boundary wall at ganjimatt SEZ

Can you mark the plot for Brigade

when you enter frm kaikamba side u enter the sez, the site of brigade is on the lefthand side , u can see 2 block like buiding site excavated , the site starts frm there and includes a T shape road area inside

:)

At $100 billion-plus, India's IT-BPO industry is large. However, largely focussed on the low-end services delivery, it neither has the heft nor the glamour that Silicon Valley (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Silicon-Valley) in the US enjoys. That may be changing slowly.

A just-released report by IT consultancy firm (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/IT-consultancy-firm) Zinnov reveals that IT product start-ups (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/start-ups) in India have been growing steadily over the years. Since 1990, it is estimated that more than 3,400 product start-ups were seeded in India. Between now and 2015, Zinnov expects about 1,000 new start-ups to join in.

On many counts, India almost mirrors what is happening in Silicon Valley. A large percentage of founders of start-ups in the US are from pedigreed top-notch IT companies like Google (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Google) and Apple (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Apple), who quit their jobs to turn entrepreneurs. This is happening in India too. For example, Pratyush Prasanna, founder of Plustxt, a start-up focusing on mobile messaging, has honed his skills at Microsoft (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Microsoft) and Xerox.

Globally, online services occupy a big focus area for product start-ups. In India too, this is the biggest chunk, comprising 34% of start-ups. Further, globally, these start-ups are increasingly looking at having a ubiquitous presence across platforms — from Windows to Android and iOS. In India too this is clearly visible. In fact here, many start-ups are also looking at Java as there is a sizeable population using Java-based phones. Start-ups in India, like their global counterparts, are working on cloud, looking beyond the Web.

Surprisingly, India does comparatively well on the gender diversity front in these start-ups. In Silicon Valley, around 10% of the start-ups have women (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/women) as co-founders. In India that stands at about 6%. There is an area where India has some catching up to do, says Kishan M Bhat, engagement manager, Zinnov Consulting: "About 20% of the founders in Silicon Valley are freshers straight out of college. In India, that figure stands at 7%."

Here's a flavour of India's fledgling Silicon Valley, the start-ups it is nurturing and the entrepreneurs (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/entrepreneurs) who are making it all happen, from Zinnov's report.

The Start-Up Boom

The Rise: The number of product start-ups being seeded in India every year has been rising steadily. In the next three years, about 1,000 start-ups could get seeded in India:


http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/photo/17258123/the-start-up-boom.jpg

Where is the Boom

There are 3,402 product companies. Bangalore and the National Capital Region remain the hub, accounting for over half of these start-ups. While Bangalore's dominant position is understandable, it is NCR's infrastructure that makes it such an attractive place for incubating product start-ups. The NCR, according to the report, includes Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Chandigarh and Mohali. Bangalore includes Bangalore city, Mysore, Belgaum, Gulbarga and Hubli.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/photo/17258134/where-is-the-boom.jpg

Why not mng included in list

^^
Yes I too observed it now, When alamost every company has Mangaloreans in every department of Bangalore,
And you should know Mangalore was always in news for wrong reason, thanks to communal politics and Moral policing here

India’s priority is investment by Japanese business in infrastructure projects, says Manmohan Singh

Japan has said it will soon announce funding for the multi-billion dollar Chennai-Bangalore Industrial Corridor (CBIC), the third mega project that will be quarter-backed by Tokyo. The other two projects that Japan is backing are the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) and the Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC).

The announcement of the CBIC project has led to considerable enthusiasm among most south Indian states with Andhra Pradesh wanting its extension to Krishnapatnam port and Karnataka asking for the inclusion of Chitradurga with the State government planning to set up a manufacturing hub between Chitradurga and Tumkur. Kerala is the only south Indian State which has so far not expressed a desire to be included in the project, according to government sources.

The feasibility study for the CBIC is likely to be financed from a 184 billion yen Official Development Assistance (ODA) from Japan which will also fund the second phase of the DFC.

This was conveyed by Japanese Prime Minister Yosihiko Noda during his second meeting in as many days with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit and related meetings with its dialogue partners, including India.

New Delhi is putting immense faith in CBIC, heralding a renewed round of industrialisation in the south, with T. K. A. Nair, Adviser to Dr. Singh, regularly reviewing its progress.

The project was first made public during the India-Japan annual summit in 2010.

The project will initially focus on Phase-II of the Chennai Outer Ring Road, Chennai-Bangalore Expressway, modernisation of airports in Chennai, Bangalore and Sriperumbudur and ports in Chennai and Ennore, in addition to a high-speed rail link between Chennai, Bangalore and the Avadi rail link.

Simultaneously, State governments and the Centre will deliberate on easing customs procedures and enhanced use of IT and automation.

According to official sources, the Prime Minister welcomed the ongoing projects under the ODA but emphasised that India’s priority was investment by Japanese business in infrastructure projects such as the Delhi Metro which other cities wanted to emulate. This is the same message he gave to Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao on Monday.

RARE EARTHS

After Dr. Singh’s visit was put off, the two countries on November 16 signed an MoU on rare earths and inked a pact on social security. The pact of rare earths too was first publicly aired during the 2010 summit.

It is a fall-out of tensions between Japan and China which led to Beijing clamping down on rare earth exports to Tokyo.

BL (http://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/japan-to-fund-multibillion-dollar-cbic-project-soon/article4116235.ece)

^^

Love it or hate it...NH4 is going to rock along with NH 63 Hubli-Bellary junctions with lots of futuristic industries

Tumkur's face has changed with NH 4 6 laning and connectivity.Chitradurga is becoming the biggest R&D cluster of asia,again on NH4.... Davangere is an old trading hub with harihar as an industrial town...Next Hubli-Dharwad with Bellary region will be full of industries...TATA,Arcellor mittal,JSW,NMDC,surana etc...

Continue further Hubli-Dharwad - belgaum is getting 6 laned now..Belgaum is already an old industrial city...You can pull that to kolhapur -pune and mumbai...

We already have an industrial corridor in the making on NH4 :banana: We need some 5 years for big industries to make progress in iron ore rich regions.

Chitradurga will be next Science City

IISc, Isro, DRDO, BARC To Form Township On 8K Acres

Prashanth G N | TNN

Chitradurga is best known for its huge boulders and picturesque valleys. But that’s all set to change. Chitradurga could be the science hotspot of the country as four of India’s most prestigious institutions are set to strike root at Challakere in Chitradurga, 200 km from Bangalore.

The Indian Institute of Science, Indian Space Research Organization, Defence Research and Development Organization, and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre will be located side by side in an integrated township spread over 8,000 acres. Such a concentration of space, defence, nuclear and pure science research will be the first of its kind and create one of India’s largest science hubs.

The establishment of these institutions will generate a new equation between Bangalore and Chitradurga. “There will be a great number of

scientists, research scholars and academicians travelling between the two cities, changing the profile of Chitradurga. The city and district will acquire a knowledge-city profile,” city-based scientists said.

UAV PROGRAMME

The facilities in Chitradurga will be path-breaking — DRDO will be housing the cutting-edge unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) programme, in which it will be building and testing the latest class of UAVs for the country’s defence establishment. Additionally, it will have an airstrip that would enable UAVs to operate and potentially, even manned aircraft that are small.

The BARC facility will be a key national resource in the country, where material enrichment will be undertaken. Major minerals like uranium, thorium etc which are related to national security are enriched to fuel nuclear plants. After Kaiga, Chitradurga BARC facility will be the second major nuclear centre in the state. Isro’s focus on communication and remote sensing is expected to match and supplement the national remote sensing agency at Hyderabad. The centre will be linked to space centres in Europe and USA, and high volume data transmission is expected between them.

BOOST FOR CHITRADURGA

Policy planners also say that “infrastructure and the civic get-up of Chitradurga will improve, which will see not only see better roads within the city but between Bangalore and Chitradurga” by the arrival of the science institutions. “Once a place is identified as a hub, economic activities also tend to pick up. We are hoping that Chitradurga will benefit a lot from this. The MP of the district has been at the forefront in trying to get academic institutions to the city and district,” planners said.

http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/getimage.dll?path=TOIBG/2010/11/24/7/Img/Pc0070900.jpg


TOI (http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/getFiles.asp?

Style=OliveXLib:LowLevelEntityToPrint_TOINEW&Type=text/html&Locale=english-skin-custom&Path=TOIBG/2010/11/24&ID=Ar00700)

Hypersonic wind-tunnel ready, ISRO working for science city

Realty in Chitradurga: Land prices go north

CHITRADURGA: The farmers of Nerlagunte, a sleepy hamlet in Challakere taluk, are seeing more visitors these days. "People from cities come in cars, scouting for land," said Gopalappa, a farmer.


For more TOI (http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-02-22/bangalore/31087578_1_land-prices-challakere-acres)

Chitradurga will be next Science City

Its great news!! I am very happy to hear that pure science research institutions like IISC and others are anchoring in our own 'Namma Karnataka'

This is a clear boost to scientific thinking and we can expect a lot from these institutes in the future.:banana:

Infosys, Wipro bag IT Exports Award


Karnataka contributed 40 percent of total IT exports from the country

BANGALORE: With Karnataka continuing to contribute a major share to the country's IT exports, IT majors Infosys and Wipro bagged the state's top IT export awards for 2006-07. The awards were presented at an event, organised by Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) and Department of IT, BT and S&T, Government of Karnataka, on Wednesday.

The awards, distributed under 22 categories, had two new categories for Best Employer for Physically Challenged and Employment Program towards Upliftment of Social/Economically Weaker Section.

While IT exports from India, including software and ITES, stood at $31.4 billion during 2006-07, Karnataka contributed $12.4 billion, which is almost about 40 percent of the total IT exports.

Bangalore contributes 8 percent

Software exports from Bangalore alone contributed to 8 percent of the total exports from India, covering all sectors. Of the total IT exports from the state, Rs 14,000 crore was contributed from tier II cities like Mysore, Mangalore, Manipal and Hubli.

J. Parthasarathy, director, STPI said that Karnataka projected a growth of 30 percent in the IT exports last year. The state saw the opening of 164 new companies last year with three of them each week. Of the existing companies in the state, 350 have expanded to tier II cities like Mangalore, Mysore and Hubli, he added.
As regards manpower growth in the IT sector, more than 4,50,000 people have been employed, Parthasarathy said.

Speaking on the occasion, Karnataka Higher Education Minister, D.H. Shankara Murthy urged the Centre to extend the tax holiday for STPI units under Sections 10A and 10B of the Income-Tax Act for a further period of 10 years.

"It is our vision to see that even the tier II cities in the state become hot destinations of IT. The state government will shortly set up earth stations and incubation centers in other cities of Karnataka, which have the potential to accelerate the growth of IT sector," the minister said.
Jayendra Singh, IT Secretary, Government of India, S.N. Zindal, director general, STPI, Karnataka IT & BT Secretary M.N. Vidyashankar, J. Parthasarathy and Shankara Murthy gave away the awards under various categories.

http://www.ciol.com/ciol/news/79134/infosys-wipro-bag-it-exports-award

Mark it 14,000 cr from Karnataka T2 cities. :banana:

Infosys, Wipro bag IT Exports Award


Software exports from Bangalore alone contributed to 8 percent of the total exports from India, covering all sectors. Of the total IT exports from the state, Rs 14,000 crore was contributed from tier II cities like Mysore, Mangalore, Manipal and Hubli.


http://www.ciol.com/ciol/news/79134/infosys-wipro-bag-it-exports-award

Mark it 14,000 cr from Karnataka T2 cities. :banana:

Instead of Bengaluru it should be non-Bengaluru.

Why it is 2006-07? Because published on :Thu, Aug 9,2007.

Work under-way on L&T's Mysore IT/ITES SEZ Project

- BB (http://www.business-beacon.com)

Work under-way on L&T's Mysore IT/ITES SEZ Project

- BB (http://www.business-beacon.com)


woah thats is some great news :cheers:

Of all the projects, I am betting on this one which is going to industrialize the whole stretch of land between Chennai~ Bangalore and beyond. We will see some of the state-of-the-art manufacturing companies anchoring there.
With Bangalore being aeronautical research hub and Chennai being auto manufacturing hub, the culmination of both may result in aero manufacturing in a big way.
With second IISC campus at Chitradurga being positioned as India's answer to MIT or Harvard USA, we will see lot of research happening in the near future in that stretch.

For those who do not know the importance proposed second IISC campus, it will host Asia's second (after China) synchrotron equipment costing millions of dollars. This equipment is a high energy electron accelerator which produces 2.5 Gev (Giga electron volts) and is used to analyze the molecular structure of materials and many other scientific experimentation.

I am proud that India will get into such high end research work on pure basic sciences joining a few countries in the west.:banana:

Mangalore, India's MSEZL special zone attracts petchem investments worth $1.8 billion.

Dubai (Platts)--29Nov2012/434 am EST/934 GMT

Mangalore Special Economic Zone Ltd, which is dedicated to setting up new petrochemical companies in Mangalore, India, has attracted three businesses which plan to invest a total of $1.8 billion in new plant construction over the next three years, MSEZL's CEO Rajiv Banga said Wednesday.

"About 35-40 companies are expected to set up their plants at the MSEZL in the first phase over an area of 1,800 acres," Banga said on the sidelines of Seventh Annual Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association forum in Dubai. "The investment figure is expected to rise further," he added.

"Most of these companies are downstream converters who will use aromatics, solvents and LPG as feedstocks," Banga said. "Arrangements have been made that these companies can set up and operate their plants on a 'plug and play' basis."

The MSEZL is also setting up a 10 km direct pipeline-cum-road corridor connecting its units to New Mangalore Port.
ONGC Mangalore Petrochemicals Ltd, or OMPL, which is the anchor tenant at the MSEZL is currently constructing a 920,000 mt/year paraxylene and 270,000 mt/year benzene plant at the complex. The plant's startup is due for April 2013.

http://www.platts.com/RSSFeedDetailedNews/RSSFeed/Petrochemicals/7297430

Mangalore, India's MSEZL special zone attracts petchem investments worth $1.8 billion.


http://www.platts.com/RSSFeedDetailedNews/RSSFeed/Petrochemicals/7297430

Mangalore rocks!! with its geographical location it has all what needs to be a metro...

KIADB Dharwad invites tender for the work of

Formation of 30m wide road (main road 5), 24m wide roads (main road No. 6) & cross road No’s (3,4,5,6,7,8,9 & 10) including asphalting, RCC side drains, culverts and Bridges and providing HDPE water supply pipe line to IT/BT park at Gamangatti 2nd stage, Hubli taluk, Dharwad District.

Contact Information
Contact Person Name : Adinarayanamurthy TA-1
Office Telephone Number : 91-80-22215383
Mobile Number :
Tender Amount Details
Estimated Contract Value 253476164.11
Amount of Earnest Money Deposit (INR) 2535000
EMD e-payment 100000
EMD Bank Guarantee 2435000
Validity of BG in days from last day of bid submission 180
Tender Processing Fee 7500
Tender Schedule / Dates
NIT Published Date 04/12/2012 15:02:24
Last Date & Time for Tender Queries/Clarifications 05/12/2012 17:00:00
Last Date & Time for receipt of tenders 15/12/2012 16:00:00
Date & Time for Opening of Technical Bid 18/12/2012 16:30:00
Pre-Bid Meeting Details
Pre Bid Meeting Date 07/12/2012 11:30:00

Dell India inks MoU with NIT-Karnataka

MANGALORE: Indian arm of hardware major Dell - Dell International Services India Private Ltd (DISIPL) inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with National Institute of Technology - Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal.

This is the first instance of DISIPL signing a MoU with any educational institute in India with focus on collaborative research and development in areas of cloud computing and server domain. :cheers:

The MoU with shelf life of three-years will focus on three specific problems that Dell has posed to the academia at NITK. These are the servers used in local market - effect of dust and humidity on them, filling in the missing functionalities in the 'cloud' software, and security technologies which recognizes that every computing environment faces a threat and how expertise of students and faculty can be used to address it.

The departments of computer science and engineering, electronics and communication, mechanical, electrical and electronics and information technology of NITK will work on the problem areas posed to them by Dell either collectively or separately. Other departments of NITK too are expected to come on board the problem solving endeavour depending on what expertise or solutions they can offer to tackle the issues on hand.

Swapan Bhattacharya, director, NITK who signed the MoU with Rudramuni B, executive director and head, Dell India (R &D Centre), Bangalore said the pact will enable students and faculty at NITK to interact directly with the industry - Dell in this case - and try and provide solutions to them. This will also meet a strong emerging demand for greater industry academia interaction to problem solving and resource sharing, he said.

Dell is interested in having unique solutions to above problems that are cost effective. The other tangible takeaways include paper publications for students and faculty, possible patents, and codes for software which the open source community accepts. "It will be a huge honour for students to get their codes accepted by the community," Rudramuni, a former alumnus of NITK said, adding solutions could start emerging in 12-18 months.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/hardware/Dell-India-inks-MoU-with-NIT-Karnataka/articleshow/17522652.cms

:banana:

http://www.deccanheraldepaper.com/pdf/2012/12/08/20121208a_002105005.jpg

^^
KIADB must supply water to nine villages in Bantwal taluk (http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/kiadb-must-supply-water-to-nine-villages-in-bantwal-taluk/article4190898.ece)

He said that the IT SEZ was coming up on 513 acres of land at Phajir and Kairangala villages. The general industrial area was being developed on 586 acres of land at Ira, Balepuni, Chelur and Kurnad villages.

513 acres of land for may be for IT SEZ which is going to be developed along with Leela Holdings by KIADB. 586 acres is Canara Industrial Area.


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