International Tech Park commonly called ITPL or ITPB is a tech park located in

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, 18 km from the city centre. It is managed by Ascendas. It includes the 450,000 square foot Park Square Mall, several sporting arenas and the Vivanta by Taj hotel. It is the oldest tech park of

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and is located in Whitefield cluster. It was created as a result of a

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between India and

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in January 1994. It is a large facility, comprising 10 buildings — ''Discoverer'', ''Innovator'', ''Creator'', ''Explorer'', ''Inventor'', ''Navigator'', ''Voyager'', ''Aviator'', ''Pioneer Maadar'', ''Victor'' and ''Anchor''. This park provides campus facilities for multi national giants like IPsoft, General Motors,

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and other medium and small sized companies. Outside ITPB, numerous companies have come up like

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, Symphony Teleca Corp and Tangoe are also located in Whitefield.

History

ITPB was mooted in 1992 by the then Prime Ministers of India and Singapore,

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and

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respectively, to replicate Singapore's quality infrastructure in India. A consortium of Singapore companies then joined forces with the Tata Group to take on the project. Ascendas has been actively involved in ITPB since its inception in 1996 and has been a lead partner in the Singapore consortium that owns 47 per cent of the ITPL. To that 47 per cent has now been added the 47 per cent of the Tatas, with KIADB continuing to hold its 6 per cent stake. Two Former Chief Ministers of Karnataka - S.M.Krishna, Praven, Former Governor of Karnataka T.N.Chatruvedi & Prime Minister of Singapore

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& President

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have inaugurated each of the buildings in various tenures. The Park was the first of its kind with the work-live-play environment to be built in India and has since become a role model for other IT Park-like projects in the country.

Education and research

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, which is internationally credited for developing databases like NetPath, Human Protein Reference Database,

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, India Cancer Research Database etc, is situated in this campus.

References

External links

ITPB website
{{Bangalore topics 2000 establishments in Karnataka Software technology parks in Bangalore Special Economic Zones of India Intelligent Community Forum

History

Education and research

See also

References

External links