Infosys to recruit 5k for its New Town campus soon
Times of India | 12 July 2024
Kolkata: IT giant Infosys is likely to recruit five thousand people in the next few months for its New Town campus, state information technology minister Babul Supriyo said on Thursday.
A day after announcing the start of Infy’s operations on his X handle, Supriyo told TOI that the company was working actively to fulfil its recruitment targets. “It (Infosys) has fulfilled the promise of starting the campus.The company has informed me that the recruitment drive has started,” he said.
Infosys had performed Akshyay Tritiya on its 17.5-acre new campus this May. There was a trial run of office operations as well. Supriyo said while there would be total direct employment of 5,000 people on campus, another 3,000 would get ancillary jobs. “It is a huge campus, so there will be lot of indirect employment in ancillary jobs,” Supriyo said. Around 800 employees of the IT giant were already working in another rented location for more than a year, he added. All these employees have been shifted to the new campus. Infosys had invited Supriyo to the new campus in Feb.
The total investment in the project is estimated at Rs 600 crore as per a filing in 2021. The Infosys project was first announced in Bengal in 2008 with the then Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee govt offering a 90-acre site to the Indian IT giant. But an incident of arson at a resort near the project site came as a roadblock.
A year after taking office in 2011, Mamata Banerjee reached out to the IT major and offered 50 acres of land each to Infosys and Wipro. But with Infosys insisting on SEZ status, something that the Bengal CM was against, the project again ran into trouble. The project was revived for a third time in 2017 when the Bengal govt prepared an alternative proposal that offered to convert leasehold land into freehold. It was also allowed to use 49% of the site for non-IT purposes while 51% had to be earmarked for IT.
In 2017-end, Banerjee inked the agreement with Infosys. Work began after the plot was handed over but was delayed again due to the pandemic.