Infosys Announce Their Second Campus in Trivandrum

Infosys today announced their plans of setting up a new campus at the Technocity in Thiruvananthapuram. This will be Infosys second SEZ campus in Kerala, the first being in Technopark Phase II, also in Trivandrum. The MoU for the 50 acre campus was signed today between H R Binod, Sr. VP, Infosys and K G Girish Babu, CEO, Technopark in the presence of Chief Minister Shri Oommen Chandy, Minister for IT & Industries Shri P K Kunhalikutty and Finance Minister Shri K M Mani, Chief Secretary Shri K Jayakumar, Principal Secretary (IT) Shri P H Kurian, Shri Sunil Jose, Centre Head, Infy-Trivandrum, Shri Abhilash Kumar, Regional Manager, Infosys   Shri M Vasudevan, Senior Manager (Business Development), Shri Gigo Joseph, CEO, InfoPark and other officials of Technopark, Infosys and IT Department.

Giving details of the proposed campus, Kris Gopalakrishnan, Executive Co-Chairman, Infosys said, “Our second campus would employ 10,000 professionals when complete. In the first phase, the centre will have an investment of Rs.180 crore and will seat about 3,500 professionals and the second phase  will be with an investment of Rs.350 crore and  will seat about 6,500 professionals. The total investment will be about Rs.600 crore.”

“Trivandrum is our fastest growing centre with about 40% growth and contributed Rs.610 crore in our total exports last year. The fourth and final building in our first campus will be complete in the next 12-18 months and we will continue to expand in Trivandrum with our new campus. We are very happy that Infosys contributed about 20% to Kerala IT exports during 2010-11”, he added.   He also added that the services provided by Technopark has been excellent and said Kerala companies has to move forward to product development.

In his comments, the IT Minister Shri P K Kunhalikutty said that Kerala now has a representation from all major IT companies and Infosys’ second campus is a sign of development here. There will be considerable employment generation and growth opportunities for the IT industry in the State.

Complementing Infosys on their decision to start their second campus in Trivandrum, Shri Oommen Chandy said that Shri A K Antony has taken the initiative to bring Infosys into Technopark.  Shri Antony visited Infosys Bangalore and had discussions with Shri Narayanamurthy and Shri Kris Gopalakrishnan.  He assured all support to Infosys for their second campus.

Infosys currently employs 4,400 professionals across its two development centres in Technopark campus and their own campus which is also spread over 50 acres. Infosys started its Kerala operations in 2004.