IT exports from Kerala touch Rs 1,568 cr

With more companies opening shop in the State, export of IT products from Kerala reached Rs 1,568 crore in 2007-08.71 new companies started units in the State-run Technopark in Trivandrum Infopark in Kochi during the last two years. These companies created direct employment to the tune of 22,500 and nearly three times more of indirect jobs.

the IT infrastructure in the State was being expanded. For one, the Government had decided to set up IT parks in all the districts in the State, besides strengthening the facilities in Technopark and Infopark. All these put together would create additional 88 lakh sq.ft. of IT space in the State,t work had commenced for establishing a technocity near Trivandrum, a cyberpark in Kozhikode and IT parks in the districts of Thrissur, Kasargod, Kollam, Alappuzha and Kannur.