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Karnataka Digital Economy Mission (KDEM) has appointed a advisor to survey the imaginable of establishing Mangaluru arsenic a planetary information centre hub, N. Manjula, Secretary, Department of Information Technology, Bio-technology, Electronics and Science and Technology, said present connected Friday.
Speaking to property persons Ms. Manjula said that uninterrupted powerfulness and h2o proviso volition beryllium the cardinal factors for the information centre to thrive with due cablegram landing presumption and endowment pool.
She said that the authorities has floated the Request for Proposal (RFP) to found an Information Technology Park successful Mangaluru nether nationalist backstage concern (PPP). The State Cabinet approved this ₹135 crore task connection recently. The parkland has been projected to travel up successful implicit 3 acres of onshore belonging to Karnataka State Electronics Development Corporation (KEONICS).
Promoting Mangaluru
She said that Mangaluru volition beryllium promoted arsenic 1 of the imaginable IT hubs astatine the three-day Bengaluru Tech Summit – 2025 which volition statesman from November 18.
Ms. Manjula said that Mangaluru portion produced 10,000 engineering graduates and 30,000 different graduates annually. Mangaluru Cluster of KDEM is making efforts to clasp the endowment excavation by promoting exertion industries successful the region. “There is potential, challenges and opportunities for the maturation of IT assemblage beyond Bengaluru,” she said adding that the State authorities done its argumentation is promoting beyond Bengaluru initiative.
Ms. Manjula said that IT exports from Mangaluru portion stood astatine ₹3,500 crores during 2024-25.
Sanjeev Kumar Gupta, CEO, KDEM, said that astir 8 exertion companies are present operating successful Mangaluru portion successful a large mode and astir 35 IT offices were opened successful Mangaluru portion successful the past 3 years.
Rohit Bhat, pb anchor, Mangaluru Cluster of KDEM said that the request for IT seats successful Mangaluru from companies has gone up from astir 20 seats 2 years agone to 100 seats now. “About 40 exertion companies created 8,000 jobs successful Mangaluru during the past 2 years,” Mr. Bhat, who is besides the laminitis of Robosoft, 99 Games, and Wrkwrk said.
Vision papers
It whitethorn beryllium mentioned present that the imaginativeness papers of the KDEM for Mangaluru Cluster, comprising Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, Uttara Kannada, and Kodagu districts, has pointed retired that undersea cablegram connectivity volition beryllium a captious enabler to fortify Mangaluru’s presumption arsenic a planetary information halfway hub.
Direct landing stations and subsea cablegram routes volition supply low-latency, high-capacity planetary bandwidth, making the hub globally competitory for hyperscalers, unreality providers, and AI-driven enterprises, the papers released connected September 24, 2025, successful Mangaluru said.
