Cochin airport to launch IT park

Kochi : The Cochin international airport, India's first airport built under public-private partnership, will soon launch an IT park near its premises to ride the boom in the knowledge sector.
"The in-principle clearance to launch an IT park by the Cochin International Airport Ltd (CIAL) has been given and the manner in which it should happen would be taken up at our next meeting to be held at Thiruvananthapuram Nov 17," said Kerala Fisheries Minister S. Sarma told reporters here after the CIAL board meet here Thursday.
CIAL had appointed consultancy firm Ernst & Young to conduct a preliminary study and it had given its go ahead. The IT park is to come up on a 33 acre plot of land near the airport at Nedumbassery on the outskirts of Kochi.
09/11/06 IANS/Telugu Portal

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