Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), today announced that its new software development campus at Rajarhat will be functional by the end of the financial year 2014-15.
The new campus spread over 40 acres of land, once completed will house over 16,500 seats and is being constructed with an investment of Rs 1,350 crore approximately.
The campus will be built in two phases, with the first phase to be completed in the first quarter of 2014 and the second phase by the fourth quarter of the year. In the first phase 7,000 seats will be ready with the remaining 9,500 seats being completed in phase II.
“The new TCS Rajarhat facility will drive the next phase of our growth in the eastern region and help us access skilled professionals and students from in and around Kolkata. Our investment will also help catalyse further development of the talent and IT ecosystem in the area,” said Ajoy Mukherjee, Executive vice president and Global Head, Human Resources.
The Rajarhat campus will offer TCS employees a world-class and holistic work environment with facilities like amphitheatre, auditorium, cafeterias, libraries and large green open spaces. The campus will house fitness facilities like tennis courts, basketball court and gymnasium for employees as well as temporary accommodation.
The centre will also be constucted as a eco-friendly building using sustainable, local materials for construction as well as by deploying green technologies. TCS will aim to get the highest LEED certification to demonstrate its effectiveness in considerably reduce the environmental footprint of the campus. Some of the features include, generation of 850 kilowatts of Solar power for campus use, zero waste discharge facility with bio digester which will turn waste into gas for cooking, sewerage treatment plant which will recycle water for use in landscaping and air conditioning and rain water harvesting to recharge aquifers in the area
S Mahalingam, Chief Financial officer & Executive Director, TCS said, “Our growing presence in Kolkata continues to be of strategic importance for our overall business growth. We remain committed to working in close collaboration with all stakeholders in the state to help development of local talent and provide our customers with world-class IT solutions from this location.”
