Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu Limited (ELCOT) has invited bids to appoint a consultant for promotion of existing locations in Information Technology (IT) parks, and earmarked for Information Technology and Information Technology Enabled Services (IT/ITeS) sector Land Bank State.
It aims to identify potential customers for (IT/ITES) locations and land banks and achieve 100% occupancy in all its parks at the earliest. At present, Tamil Nadu has about 8,90,000 sq ft of IT space and 373 acres of land across all ELCOT IT parks. A tender has been issued for the selection of Marketing Consultants for Elcot IT Parks and IT Space. Currently, vacant IT spaces are available at Sholinganallur in Chennai; Vilankurichi in Coimbatore; Navalpattu in Tiruchi; Gangaikondan in Tirunelveli; and Salem, Hosur, Erode, Chengalpattu, Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari.
On the land front, Sholinganallur has about 59.59 acres of land available, according to ELCOT; 24.14 acres at Vilankurichi; 106.93 acres at Navalpattu; and 124.766 acres in Hosur, among other places. So far, ELCOT has developed eight IT parks in Tier-I and Tier-II cities including Sholinganallur, Villankurichi, Ilandaikulam, Vadapalanji and Navalpattu with a total area of 1288.03 acres, of which 1231.48 acres is in the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) and 56.55 acres in Is. is in non-SEZ.
To meet the growing demand for quality IT space for export oriented MSMEs and other IT/ITeS companies in Chennai, a 2.33 lakh sq ft IT tower at Sholinganallur is under construction and is expected to be commissioned soon. Similarly, a 2.66 lakh sq ft IT tower at Elcot IT Park in Vilankurichi is under construction and is to be commissioned soon. Additionally, a 1.16 lakh sq ft IT tower will be commissioned soon in Tiruchi.