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@ Sun & all other forumers
I'm opening this new thread to list and integrate all IT & Business parks, existing & upcoming, which is primarily scattered in various other threads. It will contain pics & small infos on each project & all updates & changes related to each project can be posted here. This will be an online directory of IT in Kolkata featuring all IT Buildings, Complexes, Parks & SEZs.
 
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@Wonderbank and Swastik - I am also from the non-technical background and want to move back to Kolkata and start something of my own or contribute to a growth stage startup. I am currently working with an unfunded startup in Delhi (whose roots are in Startup Saturday Kolkata). Get in touch with Startup Saturday programme in Kolkata and I believe something good will click here.
 
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Santa Delivers

The founders believe they are like Santa Claus who delivers food late at night. It is a foodtech startup based out of Kolkata which specialises in late-night food delivery starting from five p.m. till three a.m. in the night. One can order food via the portal santadelivers.co.in and their Android app. Santa Delivers was started with a seed capital of Rs one lakh contributed by Aadarsh and Harsh’s parents. Currently, the startup has a team of 14 members consisting of three partners, one manager, five delivery boys, three chefs and two helpers.

Currently, Santa Delivers caters to some parts of Kolkata including Salt Lake, Newtown, Silver Spring, Phoolbagan and Laketown. The startup aims to expand all across Kolkata and in the next three years, it also plans to expand its footprint pan India.
 
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India's First Live Crowdfunding Event on a Cruise by Catapooolt & NASSCOM for Start-ups Nasscom Startup Warehouse Kolkata

It saw 10 Pitches and the winning teams are The DormShop and Fading Clouds.
1. The Dormshop- Taking Hostel Accomodation to the Next Level
2. Fading Clouds: First Crowdfunded Film with Investment from Kolkata & Bangladesh











Courtesy: Ravi Ranjan
 
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Mohandas Pai roped in to draft startup policy

Infosys co-founder and IT industry stalwart T V Mohandas Pai will take the leading role in drafting a policy to encourage, build and nurture a conducive environment for startups and entrepreneurs in the sector in Bengal.

Pai has proposed a target of building as many as 10,000 startups in the state in 10 years, generating around $50 billion business. Latching onto Pai's pitch, state finance, industry, commerce and IT minister Amit Mitra requested him to take charge and formulate a comprehensive startup policy for Bengal.

On the sidelines of the Investment Roadshow for the Bengal Global Business Summit in Bengaluru, Pai told TOI, "I will wait for the Bengal government's next proactive step. We have to sit with the government and other authorities. Let them come up with some concrete measures and I will definitely pitch in with ideas."

At the roadshow organized by industry body Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry, Mitra said, "The government has always encouraged technocrats and industry experts to take lead. And, I wish Mohan Bhai to take the leadership. I am assuring him that the government will do its best to fulfil the target by five years. Mr Pai will send us a draft policy on the startup soon." He promised to make Bengal the startup capital of the country.


Start-up plan

Bengal finance minister Amit Mitra announced here today that his government will adopt a plan to make Calcutta the "startup capital of the country" by putting in place infrastructure to attract 10,000 tech startups in just five years.

He made the announcement after accepting and improving upon a suggestion made by Mohandas Pai, formerly with Infosys and now the chairman of Manipal Global Education Services, at an investment roadshow for the upcoming Bengal Global Business Summit 2016.

While Pai had suggested that Bengal should go for 10,000 startups in 10 years, Mitra halved the target years to five with promises on funding and infrastructure.

"Mohandas Pai will lead our startups project," Mitra said after the roadshow. "He is going to send us a startup policy and we will refine it to make Calcutta the startup capital of India," he said.

In response to the startup pitch made by Pai at the roadshow jointly organised with FICCI, Mitra said the Bengal Global Business Summit slated forJanuary 7 - 9 in Calcutta, would now have a separate startup space to give added focus to the sector's needs.

He however said West Bengal was not a stranger to startups. "When Nasscom came to Calcutta last year I made an offer. (I said) we will give you 10,000 square feet right now; you bring in startups and mentor them. Nine young people came in six months with mostly angel funding and their startups are up and running."
 
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Mamata at CII meet

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee today attended the CII national council meeting, taking time out from her busy schedule ahead of the festive season. Banerjee had failed to turn up in a similar event in 2014.

In her speech, she cited numbers to establish how Bengal was growing at a higher rate than the rest of India industrially.

"Thank you so much for giving us an opportunity to meet... I invite captains of the industries to please join our Biswa Bangla conference," she said

During her 50-minute stopover, she spent some time interacting with the industry. The usual queries on land and infrastructure came up but Banerjee's replies were mostly off target.
 
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Infy revives hope for Bengal unit

Software major Infosys has rekindled hope for its Bengal project with a senior official committing to a time frame of 2-3 years for the much-awaited IT campus in Rajarhat.

"We are in a capacity building mode in other parts where we already have centres and Bengal is definitely on the road map," Pravin Rao, chief operating officer of Infosys, told The Telegraph on the sidelines of a CII National Council meeting here on Tuesday.

The IT major was allocated a 50-acre plot in Rajarhat in 2010 by the previous Left Front government at a subsidised rate along with a promise of an SEZ tag to the project. However, after Trinamul came to power in 2011, it declined to accord the special status that would have brought in several tax benefits to the operations.

Infosys had since then put the project on the backburner despite paying up Rs 75 crore for the land and signing a lease agreement with Hidco.

"In principle, we want to set up something in this state. We do not want to go away from here," Rao said.
 
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L-root launched in India, will mitigate cyberthreats

e first L-Root instance in India has been installed in Kolkata, increasing the Domain Name System's (DNS) overall fault tolerance and its resilience against certain types of cyberthreats, such as Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. ‎
The launch of the L-Root server node, which was initiated by the Internet Society - Kolkata Chapter, is a joint operation between ICANN and India's BASIS Technologies, which supplied the equipment. ICANN is a not-for-profit which has global participants whose mission is to keep the internet secure and stable.
"We are extremely proud to be the first L-Root node in India and to start contributing to the stability and resiliency of the internet. As India's internet penetration expands, it will be important for other root server instances to be established across the country. I sincerely hope other companies will follow our example across India," said Basis Technologies co-founder and director, Anand Raje.

Anupam Agrawal, chair of Internet Society Kolkata, reiterated, "The lower round trip latency times and the availability of root instances to allow the internet to continue in disaster scenarios is a step towards resiliency that India requires now more than ever. It is important that the first step of domain resolution for access to internet should be possible in India and there should be minimal traffic flowing for this outside the country."
 
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^^ A shell corporation is a company which serves as a vehicle for business transactions without itself having any significant assets or operations. As the name, they are inside a shell and sometimes called the 'underground economy'

Start up is a new business with new ideas that are different than the conventional form however they need to be financially viable so as to become a successful business model.
 
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Push for digital drive in Bengal, optic fibre network in 300 blocks soon

bel, the nodal state body for development of IT and electronics, will form a special purpose vehicle (SPV) with a central public sector unit to implement the ambitious National Optic Fibre Network (NOFN) mission in Bengal.
It will lay optic fibre cable in 341 blocks covering most of the gram panchayats in the state to spread e-governance to the grassroots. The Mamata Banerjee government earlier this week had also sanctioned Rs 72 crore for the proposed special purpose vehicle (SPV) for creating optic fibre infrastructure across the state.
 
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It's a pity that Kolkata couldn't provide an ecosystem for these talents to blossom. Kolkata with the unique advantage of having IIT, IIM and ISI should have been in the forefront of this startup revolution.

One school in India has given birth to a surprising number of cool startups

What does customer engagement software maker Capillary Technologies have in common with math app Splashmath, used vehicles marketplace Gozoomo, and logistics provider Roadrunnr?

Well, all of them are technology startups doing well in their playing fields, scaling up fast, raising money, and growing user bases or clientele. That apart, the founders of these successful startups are alumni of the same engineering college – Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT-KGP).

The initial sparks of entrepreneurship lit up inside these founders when they were students at IIT-KGP, toying with tech ideas, and building enduring friendships. Capillary, for instance, has an all-IIT-KGP founding team. So does Splashmath. GoZoomo and RoadRunnr each have one founder from the prestigious institution. Venturesity, Traveltriangle, Signeasy, Innovacer, Carbon Clean Solutions, Moengage, Mapmygenome, Stayglad … the list of cool startups that can trace their origins back to IIT-KGP grows ever longer.

“What really got the entrepreneurship buzz going was the success of seniors we had seen closely. Specifically, three startups which emerged during 2008 to 2012 made a lot of KGPians [the alumni of IIT-KGP call themselves this] curious: Capillary, Splashmath, and Minekey. Their success inspired a lot of people,” Arnav Kumar, co-founder of Gozoomo tells Tech in Asia.

IIT-KGP has a 2,100-acre campus. The town outside the campus doesn’t have much to offer the student community. Naturally, this binds them closer. The institute is also the largest in terms of student intake. “More hands, more ideas, more aggregate grey matter,” Arnav says.

He points out that IIT-KGP offers a lot of disciplines that most other IITs don’t:* agricultural engineering, medical sciences, architecture, energy, economics, and so on, besides the usual engineering courses. “This bodes well for KGP since some of the most exciting innovations are interdisciplinary in nature – think IoT, wearables, medical technology, artificial intelligence, robotics, and so on,” he says. Many of Gozoomo’s early team members are KGPians.
https://www.techinasia.com/what-do-capillary-splashmath-roadrunnr-have-in-common/
 
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The govt has agreed to waive contiguity norm permitting Wipro to develop another patch of land in Salt Lake, Kolkata, that is not attached to the existing zone. However the board of approval (BoA) for SEZs placed the condition that the developer has to put in full proof security so that no foul work can be done.

Wipro had requested the BoA to allow it to develop 2.5 acres of land with the existing 11 floors as an extention of it's Salt Lake SEZ, despite being the land non contiguous. It has suggested that it would build a full proof security system.

Although the BoA is very particular about contiguity, in this case of Wipro they decided to relax the rule due to the peculiarity of this case.:banana::banana::banana:

Source : Hindu business line
 
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^^ Sad to hear the worker woes of Hindmotors. Point blank cheating. Same as what happened in many places including the erstwhile Cotton mills of Mumbai where workers were even killed and burnt alive to forcefully shut down the cotton mills and hand them over to real estate developers and thus was born a luxury mall and entertainment space 'High Street Phoenix'. Sad.

Anyway Left wing union workers are blaming the Commies themselves- so the frustration can be gauzed. Trinamool supporters would have to be silent for reasons known.

BTW, if at all Infosys chooses Hindmotor plot, won't it be extremely far from the airport and also the logistics are nightmarish.

Good to see Sriram are involved in a lot of projects in Kol.
 
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