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Technopark near here, one of India’’s oldest IT parks, on Sept 4 embarked on a new stage of growth with the beginning of work on its third phase. Phase III of Technopark will cover an area of 92 acres and will be an IT/ITES special economic zone. While 40 of the 92 acres will be built by a private developer, the remaining land will be developed by the Technopark authorities.

The private developer will be chose via a competitive bidding process, which is currently on. Some of the land being retained for development by the Technopark authorities will be given to individual IT companies to build their own campuses. The total infusing in phase three of the park is expected to be over Rs 1,500 crore. Once phase three is complete, Technopark-Thiruvananthapuram will have a built-up area of around 10 million square feet and will directly employ at least 100,000 IT/ITES professionals

Wow, Tuesday was very exciting. We flew to Trivandrum, Kerala, in the morning. We were met at the airport by our host and then went to the Technopark to visit with different personnel. It is a business park with @ 20,000 employees. The business park is beautiful because it is has “park” still in its vocabulary. By that I mean it has all kinds to trees. Kerala is in the extreme southern tip of India and after meetings we were taken to dinner at a hotel right on the Arabian Sea. It was almost too late for sunset but I got a picture. The dinner was a buffet with some great curry dishes. We got up early Wednesday morning to fly to Bangalore. Kerala is a vacation spot in India because of the ocean - I can understand that because I would definitely like to spend more time there.

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 US Technologies, one of the largest companies in technopark is organizing  a ‘Wellness walk’ on 20th August 2008 in Technopark premises at 4.00 pm. This is an initiative by the HR department of the company aimed to promote good health and well being of its employees thus encouraging a healthy working environment.

 The initiative with its motto, ‘One step furthur… towards caring and sharing‘, is ofcourse an important step to watch and learn for all the techies as well as for the HR people in different IT companies. It is learnt that, among the professionals in the job sector, the rate of deterioration of health is most among the IT professionals, with the bugs and deadlines making a heavy toll on mental and physical health. The hectic time schedules keep them away from exercises too. Only less than twenty percent of technopark employees travel by their foot to reach office everyday. The much appreciated event is a preface to think about the personal health of every IT employee.

 The flag-off of the event will be done by Arun Narayanan and Barry Newton at 4.00 pm. The walk also marks the beginning of the UST foundation day celebrations.

The IT Man of the Year Award 2008, instituted by Kerala Sahridaya Vedi was presented to Mr.Nair, Chief Financial Officer and Programme Manager (new initiatives), Technopark.

Speaking after receiving the award Mr.Nair said the Technology Business Incubation Unit on technopark campus here, in Thiruvananthapuram has played a pioneering role in bringing knowledge-driven industries to the state by spurring entrepreneurial spirit among technocrats.

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The big names have finally arrived to delight the taste buds of the techies at the Thiruvananthapuram Technopark. Courtesy Vital Links & Services Pvt. Ltd, food major Planet Yumm International has set up its first state-of-the-art food court on the IT park campus in the Kerala capital.

Planet Yumm International’s new food court has begun operations on a centrally air-conditioned space spreading across 20,000 sq ft on the seventh floor of Thejaswini building in the Technopark campus.

The latest addition in Technopark is a new concept aimed at incorporating a mix of various food outlets and to ensure variety in food served.

Currently about 10 counters are open for lunch and dinner on weekdays and serves everything from quick bites, local delicacies, authentic north Indian, south Indian, Chinese and continental food, kebabs and ice creams.

Well-known brands like Dominos, Papa Poncho of Prahlad Kakar, Chicking, Kebab House, Quickies Coffee, Mother’s Kitchen, Wangs Express, Zero Degree, and Passion Fruit have set up their outlets under Planet Yumm International umbrella to cater to the variety of palates.

Inaugurating the Planet Yumm International food court, Radhakrishnan Nair, CEO, Technopark, said that the non-existence of variety in food had led to the authorities at the IT park to bring in Planet Yumm.

“We had decided to address the issue by bringing in the leader in food courts in Chennai and Bangalore to run the food court at our new building Thejaswini. Technopark has spent over Rs 5 crore for setting up the Thejaswini complex. Our endeavor now is to create the best of cosmopolitan environment in Technopark to attract IT companies and IT professionals,” Nair said.

According to Navin Shyam, CEO, Vital Links and Services Pvt Ltd, who has brought in the Planet Yumm International brand to Kerala, “the latest offering is a unique concept that would act as a perfect solution for the growing demands for good eating joints. Presence of reputed brands will not only bring availability of wide variety but also ensure the quality of food being served.”

“We are aiming at making Planet Yumm International a one-stop-shop for all food requirements,” he added.

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Technology Business Incubator had been officially inaugurated @ Venue: Main seminar hall,LBS College of Engineering,Kasaragod on June 21, 2008.
Sri.K.C Chandrashekharan Nair,CFO & Programme Co-ordinator,Technopark-TBI.,and Mr. Sreejith,TBI,Technopark were Chief Guests.
The other members of dias comprising Principal,LBS College of Engineering,Kasaragod,E.D Club Representitive,CGPC officer,and HOD’s of all the branches.
Audience comprising of around 100 students along with a maximum of 20 teachers made the croud.

After Lighting the Lamp,Sri.K.C Chandrashekharan Nair had a wonderful speech regarding entrepreneurship and TBI Process.

The program schedule was of 3 hours starting at 11am and ending at 2pm.

The TBI team wished us all the success and on winding up the ceremony, promising us with future guidance and support from technopark,trivandrum.

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It passes through a beautiful lush green environment sidelined by big trees and cooled by its shadows. But its condition was very bad that anybody using it would never forget the bad experience. This was the curse on it. But like every other curse, this too was followed by ‘moksha’. And the bad experience is going to be a story of the past.

Its a road that I’m talking about. The Karyavattom- Thrippadapuram road. Despite the gutters and small width, it is a highly preffered road to Technopark for those coming from Sreekaryam side. The Public Works Dept. (PWD) gives ‘moksha’ to it. They have commenced the maintenance work of this road and is expected to get it completed in less than a weeks time. It is better to avoid commuting through this road till then.

Well, its a good move from the authorities’ side. It would have been a perfect one if they have given importance to the speed-cutters like bumps at the appropriate regions of this narrow road with a number of curves, thus making it ’safe and beautiful’ .

Just as the Kerala High Court rapped the LDF government for its takeover of the heritage property Trivandrum Golf Club, it has found a fervent caddie in the association of IT honchos. The State Cabinet had decided to acquire the 100-year old club, located in 24 acres in prime property in the heart of Kerala capital since the club was reported to have ‘outstanding tax dues’.

The captains of IT firms in Technopark have clubbed in against the Trivandrum Golf Club takeover in unison, dubbing the move as “taken in haste”. While other State governments were trying to promote golf, the Kerala government was trying to end an existing golf course, they pointed out. There are 120-odd Companies working from Technopark, about 12 kms away from Trivandrum Golf Club.

According to G-TEC, the Group of Technopark Companies, the takeover of Trivandrum Golf Club may give “negative signal to the investor community.” Sunil Gupta, a spokesman of GTEC said, here in a release, that some IT firms which invested in Kerala in 1994 were promised a golf club within Technopark. With the current priority of more buildings, this promise was unlikely to materialise, Gupta argued.

The Kerala High Court, meanwhile, has asked the Kerala government to return the possession of Trivandrum Golf Club to club members on Tuesday. The State revenue officials had effected the acquistion on Monday.

The court has also asked State revenue secretary Nivedita Haran to appear before it next Monday to give explanation.

Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan has reacted that the State government would appeal against the verdict. Just hours before the court order, State law minister M Vijayakumar had defended the takeover, saying that the Kerala government intended to make golf facilites accessible to more people beyond the club’s 200-odd members.

Courtesy :- Financial Express

It was not quite an auspicious morning for the techies today, atleast for those entering the park thorugh the front gate. It was a heavy traffic jam that welcomed them to their workplace. The morning welcome would sound more worse if you hear the reason behind the traffic jam. It was a dead body of a young man of around 27 years of age. It was found in the opposite side of Technopark front gate, 200 metres away from the Chennai restaurant and near to the bus parking. He had wounds in his body which is understood to be caused by sword.

Kazhakoottam was always notorious for its anti-social elements and was sometimes termed as their capital in TVM. What is more painful is that it occured just infront of our gate beside the byepass, which boasts of 24 hour police patrol. Fate again brought the real picture of our safety. Whatever patrol there be, here we should take care of our own lives.

The day is not so far when the roadside sign-board to Kazhkoottam reads, “DANGER, Kazhakoottam Ahead..!!”

The availability of quality manpower talent in India has enabled UST Global to expand on a massive scale in the Asian sub-continent. UST Global is currently the biggest software employer in the ‘God’s Own Country’ and has aptly set up its Indian headquarters at Technopark in Thiruvananthapuram.

The California-based IT major provides end-to-end IT services and business process outsourcing solutions for Global 2000 companies. UST, which primarily caters to the US and European markets, plans to set up centres across tier-II and tier-III towns of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. With nearly 5,500 employees, mostly in India, UST Global is keen on increasing its headcount in the country. Last year, UST Global was ranked second in the top 20 Outsourced Software Testing & QA Vendors.

Part of the $6-billion Comfro Group, UST’s goal is to become a $1-billion company by 2010. In an exclusive interview to Sify.com, Arun Narayanan, Joint Chief Operating Officer of UST, shares the company’s growth plans.