The Project Implementation Board of Technopark here has approved the master plan for the development of an IT park at Kollam, adopting the `hub and spoke’ model of development strategy of the government for the promotion of IT and ITES industry in the state.

Technopark, Thiruvananthapuram, the hub, will be developing Technopark, Kollam as its spoke,an official press release said. Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan launched the project in February this year at the site in Kundara near Kollam, where the government had already allotted a 40-acre plot along the banks of the Ashtamudi lake for the project.

The park would soon be notified as a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) and tenders had been called for infrastructure development works like 110 KV substation, internal roads and water supply schemes.

A modern sewage treatment plant is also part of the master plan. “Conceptual design for a modern IT building, measuring half a million sq ft, incorporating the green building concept has been approved.

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