Demand grows to make Hubballi Infosys Campus operational

HUBBALLI: After Infosys announced setting up offices in four cities including Coimbatore and Vizag, people in Hubballi have been demanding the software giant start operations in its Hubballi campus which has been created four years ago.

In a bid to closer to the available talent pool, Infosys planned to move to tier-II cities and also it wished to start its campus in Hubballi. The Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board allotted 43.05 acres of land under the special economic zone (SEZ) category. In phase-I, the company developed a campus with a built-up area of 3.64 lakh sqft by 2018 which has a capacity to house 1400 employees. But in the last four years, it had not started operations here.