{"id":898074,"date":"2025-01-21T08:50:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T03:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=898074"},"modified":"2025-01-21T09:01:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T03:31:02","slug":"kerala-government-set-to-take-full-control-of-smartcity-kochi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/01\/21\/kerala-government-set-to-take-full-control-of-smartcity-kochi\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala government set to take full control of SmartCity Kochi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: A month after the appointment of a committee to finalise the contours of the withdrawal of Tecom Investments from the joint venture, the Kerala government is set to take over the SmartCity Kochi project in a move that enables the government access to the 246-acre IT park at Kakkanad. <\/p>\n<p>Tecom, a subsidiary of Dubai Holding, held 84% stake in SmartCity Kochi, while the state government held 16%. The expert committee &#8212; comprising Kerala State IT Mission director Sandip Kumar, Infopark CEO Susanth Kurunthil, and Overseas Keralites Investment and Holding managing director Baju George &#8212; has met once, according to sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: A month after the appointment of a committee to finalise the contours of the withdrawal of Tecom Investments from the joint venture, the Kerala government is set to take over the SmartCity Kochi project in a move that enables the government access to the 246-acre IT park at Kakkanad. Tecom, a subsidiary of Dubai Holding, held 84% stake in SmartCity Kochi, while the state government held 16%. The expert committee &#8212; comprising Kerala State IT Mission director Sandip Kumar, Infopark CEO Susanth Kurunthil, and Overseas Keralites Investment and Holding managing director Baju George &#8212; has met once, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-898074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}