MYSORE: Infosys Technologies Ltd. will expand its Mysore campus and invest an additional Rs. 809 crore, taking the investment here to more than Rs. 1,500 crore.

V.P. Mohandas Pai, Director, Human Resources, Education and Research and Administration, said the investment in the Global Education Centre here would be the largest investment and the project would be completed by June 2007.

When completed, the campus, which had a capacity to accommodate 4,500 trainees in a single sitting, would train 13,500 people in a single sitting. The campus had 2,350 double bedrooms for its trainees and an additional 7,750 hostel rooms were under construction.

Mr. Mohandas Pai said the campus would impart generic and stream-specific training in soft skills and leadership programmes to fresh engineering graduates who joined Infosys.

Rejecting criticisms that the local people did not find employment in Infosys, Mr. Mohandas Pai said over 4,000 engineering graduates were recruited from Karnataka last year in addition to 4,000 graduates who were inducted into business process outsourcing sector. This was out of 25,000 graduates the company recruited throughout the country.

Special Economic Zone

Mr. Pai said the Government had not sanctioned the Special Economic Zone status for Infosys in Mysore and the State Government should push for it with the Centre. The thinking among the policymakers was that there was too much of information technology in Karnataka and it should go to other places, Mr. Pai said.

On the strategy to overcome the shortage of manpower, the company launched Campus Connect in 2004 realising the need for producing professionals ready for induction, and had a partnership with 250 engineering colleges throughout the country. It had carried out recruitment from across 80 engineering colleges in the State. The country produced nearly 3.6 lakh engineering graduates every year.

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