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International Tech Park commonly called ITPL or ITPB is a tech park located in Whitefield, Bangalore, 18 km from the city centre. The Park was designed by Singaporean architectural firm, RSP Architects Planners & Engineers and is now managed by Capitaland.[1] 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 Bengaluru and is located in Whitefield cluster. It was created as a result of a joint venture between India and Singapore in January 1994. It is a large facility, comprising 10 buildings – Discoverer, Innovator, Creator, Explorer, Inventor, Navigator, Voyager, Aviator, Pioneer, Victor and Anchor. This park provides campus facilities for multi national giants like IPsoft, General Motors, Société Générale, Mu Sigma, Xerox, Conduent, AT&T, Soais, Sharp, Scientific Games, Medtronic, iGATE, GE, Airtel, Moving Picture Company, TCS, Startek, Gyansys Infotech, Technicolor, Atos, Unisys, Delphi, Huawei, Oracle, Perot Systems, Applied Materials, GalaxE Solutions, First American Corporation and other medium and small sized companies. Outside ITPB, numerous companies have come up like Dell, Tesco, Shell, Aviva, GM, Schneider Electric, Sapient, Goodrich / UTC aerospace and DaimlerChrysler, Symphony Teleca Corp and Tangoe are also located in Whitefield.
ITPL was established by a consortium of Singapore companies joining forces with the Tata Group and Karnataka government led by Deve Gowda[2][3] 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. Chaturvedi & Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong & President S. R. Nathan 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.
The internationally acclaimed Indian nonprofit research organization the Institute of Bioinformatics (IOB) founded by The Genomics Research Trust and the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, which is internationally credited for developing databases like NetPath, Human Protein Reference Database, Human Proteinpedia, India Cancer Research Database etc., is situated in this campus.[4]
The problems encountered by the Enron Corporation made the Singapore consortium realize that they were fortunate to have dealt with the Janata Dal party of Prime Minister Deve Gowda in Karnataka.
We were glad that Deve Gowda was the Chief Minister during the critical phase of implementation and construction of the Bangalore IT Park. We were worried about the IT Park because of what happened to Enron Corporation. It also helped a great deal that Deve Gowda went on to become the Prime Minister.
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