Karnataka Govt to Develop Five more IT Parks - Mangalore on the Ranks
Agencies
BANGALORE, Oct 21: The State government has decided to develop five more Information Technology Parks (ITPs) at Bangalore, Mysore, Shimoga, Hubli-Dharwad and Mysore under the public private partnership (PPP) model.
The state-owned Karnataka Electronics Development Corporation (KEONICS) would be the nodal agency and land would be provided by the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB) for establishing the projects that would be launched before December 15.
Chief minister B S Yeddyurappa would lay the foundation stone for work on the Shimoga ITP on November 1. It would come up in an area spread over 25 acres.
Similarly work on the four other ITPs would be launched during November and December. Each ITP outside Bangalore is estimated to cost between Rs 20 crore to Rs 25 crore, IT and BT minister Kattasubramanya Naidu said.
Hubli and Mangalore already have an ITP and new ones had been planned to meet the future demands, he added.
The Bangalore IT park would come up near the Devanahalli International Airport on a 27-acre plot to be developed by Jain Heights, a private company.
It would be developed on walk-to-work model, where small and medium IT enterprises could start functioning right away after the completion of the project within 20 months.
IT & BT Authority soon
The state government will soon set up an exclusive IT & BT Authority to function as a facilitator for the speedy implementation of investment proposals in information technology and bio-technology sectors.
A draft bill for the purpose is being prepared and it would be introduced during the next legislature session.
The exclusive authority is being created in the light of complaints against the functioning of the present single window system in the industries department, Naidu said.
Chief minister Yeddyurappa has taken personal interest in reducing the time-gap between approval and implementation of the projects. The proposed authority would cater exclusively to facilitate investments in IT and BT sectors.
Action was also being taken to simplify the land conversion processes, issuing of clearances from the revenue department and Pollution Control Board and sanctioning of water and power connections under the single window system, he said.