Infotech Enterprises Limited, a Hyderabad-based technology solutions provider offering engineering and geographic information (GI) services, commenced operations in its new development centre from its facility at the IT special economic zone (SEZ) in Kakinada. Infotech is the first company in this SEZ.
Phase-I of the new development centre will house 150 seats by the end of this month, and would be scaled up to 400 by January 2012. This is the company’s sixth facility in India - two at Hyderabad, one at Bangalore’s Electronics City, Noida and at Rushikonda SEZ IT park in Visakhapatnam. The second facility at the Kakinada SEZ, being developed on a five-acre campus over a built-up area of 100,000 sft, will have 1,000 seats.
Infotech commenced operations in Kakinada early in February 2007 from the Software Technology Parks of India (STPI)’s incubation centre. At present, the company has 470 associates between the two locations – city centre and STPI.
Over 30 per cent of Infotech’s employees in Kakinada are women and over 90 per cent are locals from in and around Kakinada. The development centres in Kakinada largely caters to the company’s oil and gas customers around the world.
“Phase-I of the facility was completed in four months. From 150 seats, we would be adding another 250 seats and operating it in two shifts, this 300-people centre would grow to 800 people by January 2012,” B Ashok Reddy, president (global HR and corporate affairs), Infotech, stated in a release on Monday.
“This is in line with our growth strategy to create facilities in SEZs and in Tier-II cities. This will enable us to provide employment opportunities to the rich engineering talent available from universities in and around Kakinada,” he said.