Chennai isone fo the leading IT destinations in India with ther industry picking up further after teh recent initiatives by thestate govt.
Over the past year Wipro Technologies, Infosys Technologies, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Satyam Computer Services have invested in major expansion plans at Chennai. They’ve committed themselves to creating more than 70,000 jobs by 2008 and have taken up hundreds of acres in two key software parks on the outskirts of Chennai.
They’re building what Infosys calls “the world’s biggest software development centre” on a 130-acre tract. Both Infosys and Wipro plan to increase headcount in Chennai by a factor of four in the next five years.
Infosys is developing around 130 acres in a modular fashion in a 1,700 acre IT industrial park called Mahindra City, 25 km south of Chennai airport. It aims at increasing headcount 10-fold to 30,000 in five years.
Wipro was allotted an additional 85 acres to expand its 15- acre campus in Sholinganallur in the IT corridor, a 25-kilometre stretch running from Tidel Park to Siruseri, home for a 1,000-acre industrial park being set up by the State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu (Sipcot).
TCS has already taken up 70 acres in Siruseri, with others such as Polaris, Patni Computer Systems and Cognizant Technology Solutions laying foundations for huge campuses.
As a result, Chennai is likely to overtake the National Capital Region (NCR) – including Delhi – to become the second largest job creator along with Mumbai with around 35,000 jobs this year, a survey by “The Times of India” suggests
Here are some of the present IT infrastructure what is commonly being called as the IT Highway in Chennai
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http://www.elcot.com/itnews/aug04/nbs250804.htm
Rough Map of the IT Highway
Tidel Park
Other plans...
IT Highway, Kandanchavadi, 14 floors, for completion in June 2005
Max Computers,Venkatnarayana Rd TNagar
Completed 13 floors
Adyar Arihant Foundation, completed ? stilt + 11 floors
IT Highway, Sholinganallur completed
Velacherry Sai Tech
IT Highway, Navalur completed
IT Highway, Kottivakkam for May 2005
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