The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Chennai News : Jeppiaar Trust to establish software park

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Tuesday, Mar 29, 2005

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Jeppiaar Trust to establish software park

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI, MARCH 28. A software park covering about 1 million sq. ft is to come up on Old Mahabalipuram Road, under the aegis of the Jeppiaar Education Trust (JET). The Trust is running four engineering colleges in and around Chennai.

The trust realised the need to create more job opportunities, primarily for students of the four colleges, said the JET chairman, Jeppiaar, at the convocation ceremony of St. Joseph's Engineering College, Sholinganallur on Saturday.

"As soon as we receive Government clearance for reclassifying the agricultur[al] land [as] institutional area, the JET Software Park will come up as a 10-lakh sq. ft facility. The space would be let out to big IT companies, but [we will] ask them to give priority to our students [for] jobs."

However, the company's activities would start off immediately at Sathyabhama Deemed University campus.

" Part of the proposed park would accommodate start-ups by our students. We are getting orders for them through a network of our alumni, many of whom are holding high positions in foreign countries," he said.

Mr. Jeppiaar said the trust would also provide talented students from rural areas with personality and leadership skills so that they could land better jobs.

V. Jayaraman, programme director, Earth Observation Systems, Indian Space Research Organisation, Bangalore, who presented the degrees and JET awards, urged the new graduates to use their talent to help the farming and manufacturing sector, to help India become a developed nation by 2020.

The college principal, Jolly Abraham, said that in 2004 the college had achieved an over pass percentage of 98 per cent in B.E/B.Tech, 92 per cent in MBA, 100 per cent in MCA and 85 per cent in M.Sc (IT).

A total of 561 graduates received degrees, 123 of whom have got admission in foreign universities while 416 had found company placements.

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