Coimbatore Information Technology

• Preamble: India is on the way of becoming the world's back office. Globalization is forcing all organizations to focus on their 'core business competencies' and outsource the 'non-core business processes'. Nasscom McKinsey Report 2002 projects that Information Technology and ITES industry will account for over 7 percent of India's GDP, 30% of foreign exchange inflows and create over 4 Million jobs. This sector holds immense hope for the common person. It can provide employment to science and arts graduates and non-graduates since skill requirement is simple- knowledge of language and basic computer skills. Tamil Nadu with its excellent physical, civic and social infrastructure and a large pool of talented, educated, hardworking, English-speaking workforce is well positioned to capture a substantial share of the ITES market. Recognising the huge potential, the pro-active Government of Tamil Nadu is formulating a policy to exploit this enormous opportunity for the welfare of the people served from Tamil Nadu will be the new mantra. This draft policy document seeks to facilitate achieving the above by creating an enabling environment.
• Vision: To make Tamil Nadu, the Global ITES Capital thereby creating employment opportunities to add value and wealth by leveraging the inherent strengths of the State.
• Background Tamil Nadu has: A proactive and investor friendly Government, The Accounting Back offices of World Bank, ABN-AMRO, eFunds, Stanchart and other leading companies.Asia's largest Medical Transcription facility.The required key resources of skilled and educated manpower, higher standard of educational institutions, good infrastructure, effective cost of operation.The availability of large International and Domestic Bandwidth. The best urban dispersal in India.
• Objectives: To position and establish Tamil Nadu as the Global ITES Capital,To develop Human Resources specific for ITES Sector, To promote Tier II centres such as Coimbatore, Madurai, Trichy, Tirunelveli and Salem, To create an enabling framework for ITES, To increase the share of ITES in the State Gross Domestic Product, To promote extensive percolation of IT literacy and education in the State, To create domain expertise and focus on niche areas to enable the Tamil Nadu based companies to move up the value chain.

• Six agencies have already been permitted on a non-exclusive basis to create high bandwidth optic fibre cable networks that will cover every single district in the State. These are M/s BPL Broadband, DishnetDSL, Bharti Telesonic, Macronet Private Ltd. (subsequently renamed as Reliance Infocomm Ltd.), Estel Communications Pvt. Ltd. and Bharti Telenet Ltd. This will make Internet access possible in every corner of the State. Reliance Infocomm, DishnetDSL and Bharti Telesonic are in the process of physical implementation of their projects.
• Tamil Nadu has the highest rural telephone connectivity in the country with nearly 86% of all its villages in Tamil Nadu covered.
• The STPI IT Park is housed in a 3,00,000 sq.ft. landmark structure with classical South Indian temple architecture and modern facilities.
• Floor Area: 1,00,000 sq.ft.Readily Scalable up to 2,00,000 sq.ft.
• Work Space: Column-less Space in units of 33 ft. by 11 ft.
• Power :1000 KVA Generator Backup with N+1 redundancy with Automatic Switchover Individual Power Meters 24/7 Service
• Data Connectivity :STPI Earth Station located within 1/2 km from the park.Bandwidth on fiber, IP, IPLC and Telephony services available on demand from STPI, Reliance Infocomm and other ISPs with local point of presence.