PM Modi to lay foundation stone of India’s first Digital Science Park in Kerala

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who’s scheduled to go to Kerala on a two-day journey on April 24, will lay the inspiration stone for the nation’s first Digital Science Park, a Rs-1,500-crore mission, in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday, April 25. The third-generation Science Park (they’re situated in bustling metropolis centres) will come up near the Digital University of Kerala at Technopark Phase IV – Technocity, a authorities launch mentioned.

Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, Union Minister for Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw, numerous ministers of the Left authorities and Congress’s Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor could be attending the occasion, the discharge mentioned.

The Digital Science Park mission had been conceived as a multidisciplinary cluster-based interactive-innovation zone targeted on digital applied sciences and is predicted to be accomplished in two years, it mentioned.

In the 2022-23 finances, the state authorities had introduced the institution of a Digital Science Park in an space of 10 lakh sq. ft in two blocks, the discharge added. “The park will initially have two buildings with a total area of 2,00,000 square feet. The first one in 1,50,000 square feet will have five floors, housing the Centre of Excellence (CoE) including research labs and digital incubator, while the second building will house the administrative as well as Digital Experience centre.”

The Digital Science Park will begin its operations from a ten,000 sq. ft area in Kabani situated at Technopark Phase IV inside the subsequent couple of months, it added.

Out of the whole mission outlay of over Rs 1,500 crore, Rs 200 crore has already been allotted by the state authorities and the remaining quantity shall be generated from different sources together with business companions, the discharge mentioned.

Initially, Digital Science Park will facilitate business and business models in addition to expertise startups from the domains of Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics, electronics, sensible {hardware}, sustainable and sensible supplies. “UK-based semiconductor and software design company ARM has signed an agreement with Digital University Kerala on academic, research and startup-related activities as part of this centre.

“Similarly, the centre for AI will concentrate on each the {hardware} and software program facets of accountable AI, the place the main multinational expertise firm NVIDIA is predicted to affix as a associate,” the discharge mentioned.

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