{"id":11258,"date":"2013-06-11T13:35:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T08:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=11258"},"modified":"2013-06-11T13:35:02","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T08:05:02","slug":"kerala-planning-to-set-up-it-hardware-innovation-zones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/kerala-planning-to-set-up-it-hardware-innovation-zones\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala planning to set up IT hardware innovation zones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala government is planning to setup <strong>IT innovation zones<\/strong> in the state where emphasis would be given on hardware. The decision to setup innovation zone came after it was found that the country is heavily relying on foreign imports. The government is hoping to create innumerable jobs for technical professionals in this sector.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The state government is now working on setting up innovation zones in the state and here the emphasis would be given to the hardware industry because this is a sector where the country is relying heavily on imports. Innumerable jobs will be created for technical professionals in this segment.&#8221;\u00a0 Said Industries and IT minister P.K. Kunhalikutty<\/p>\n<p>The government has also decided to give permission for small IT parks which will now come up in the private sector. Kerala has a strong foothold in IT and the state\u2019s biggest achievement in the IT sector is the hugely successful model of the Kochi-based Start-up Village the first PPP model incubator in the country where around 100 new applications every month for setting up a unit are being received.&#8221;We have been the facilitator to this project and this would continue,&#8221; said the It Minister<\/p>\n<p>Currently, 285 IT companies in the state employ 40,521 employees in locations such as Trivandrum, Kochi and Kozhikode. The IT industry in Kerala has clocked a turnover over $1 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala government is planning to setup IT innovation zones in the state where emphasis would be given on hardware. The decision to setup innovation zone came after it was found that the country is heavily relying on foreign imports. The government is hoping to create innumerable jobs for technical professionals in this sector. &#8220;The state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[149,452],"class_list":["post-11258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-startups","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}