Ahmedabad, May 7 The Pune-based Vascon Engineers Limited has initiated construction of the state’s first Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES) SEZ at Sanathal village off the Sarkhej-Gandhinagar highway.
The project is being jointly developed by Vascon, Agrawal Estate Organisers of Gujarat and Pristine Properties of Pune at a cost of Three hundred fifty crore rupees. It will cover an area of twenty six acres and will be complete in a period of four years. However, the first phase will come up only by May 2009.
The project is estimated to create around 20,000 jobs. The developers claim that more than half a dozen IT companies have agreed to open their operations from this SEZ in the first phase, thereby providing employment to about six thousand people.
Vascon is chiefly involved in real estate and construction business and has only currently diversified in the development of IT parks in Pune. It prefers Ahmedabad for its SEZ after a NASSCOM survey showed the project would be successful in the city.
R Vasudevan, the company’s managing director told mediapersons on Wednesday that he was optimistic that Ahmedabad would appear as an IT hub as the state government has extended all kinds of support in bringing investment to the state.
He said the company’s plans include the construction of a hotel and shopping facilities to meet the demands of the customers as also enough parking spaces, adding that this was their first venture in western India outside Maharashtra.
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