SmartCity: work to begin by October
The construction work of SmartCity Kochi is expected
to begin by October this year, said S. Sarma, Minister
for Fisheries and Registration and chairman of SmartCity
Kochi.
He was briefing the media here after the annual general
meeting of SmartCity.
The State government has completed formalities on its
part for transferring the remaining 100 acres needed
for the project from the Special Economic Zone (SEZ).
Now it is for the promoters Tecom to follow up the
procedure, Mr. Sarma said.
Tecom was faced with the difficulty of not being able
to register the 236 acres identified for the SmartCity
project. While 136 acres has been given the SEZ status,
Tecom is seeking the same status for the remaining 100
acres.
Failing this, the company will have to go for separate
registrations.
Issues such as setting up of an office and relocating
the PWD road that passes through the project area will
be taken up at the next director board meeting, to be
held here on July 3, Mr. Sarma said.
He presided over the annual general meeting. Baju George,
acting company secretary, SmartCity Kochi; Sreela, Additional
Secretary, Government of Kerala; Midhun Beeru, business
development manager, SmartCity Kochi; and Sulaiman Al-Riyami,
business development manager, Tecom, attended the meeting.
The meeting approved the budget and accounts.
It also ratified the appointments of Ajayakumar, State
IT Secretary, and Anirudha Damkey, director of finance,
Tecom, as director board members at the second director
board meeting.
Tecom had earlier appointed Colin Buchanan, one of
the leading United Kingdom-based multi-disciplinary
consultants handling town master planning, urban design
and traffic engineering, as the master planner for the
project.
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