Monday, March 19, 2012

The Pathetic State of Infopark Campus, Kochi

Infopark is Kerala's most prestigious IT park and this over hyped IT park in Kochi is home to some of the top companies in India.  New constructions and maintenances can be seen every day in Infopark and once you enter the Infopark campus, you get a feeling of a heavy construction site. This is the same situation since I have started working in Infopark since 3 years and every day you can see some or other kind of maintenance work going on at the same location again and again.

It is really a shameful sight when people from other places come to Infopark and the current state of Kochi Infopark is a real mess. Most of the buildings are good for the first 1-2 years and after that when these buildings enter the maintenance phase, things become worse. Most of the basic facilities are much below par with other IT parks in India. For example, in the Athulya Cafeteria block, there is a gent's toilet and washroom on the top floor. A lot of request has been send verbally to the office authorities to place a small bottle of liquid soap for hand washing purposes. It has been 3 months since the first request has been send by me and they have never dared to place a hand wash bottle in the washroom till now.

The same applies to all other things and most of the officials are having typical government employee attitude and no one cares to do the needful at the right time. The environment in the campus is too much polluted with dust and people having allergy easily fell victim to these dust coverings. The parking areas are also very much unorganized and the same applies to the security system. I have seen a large number of unauthorized vehicles such as trucks and tippers passing through the Infopark road without sufficient documents or pass.

Another major scene that struck my mind was when I visited my previous company at the Vismaya building in Infopark. I parked my bike in the parking area and when I looked around sensing a foul smell, I was shocked to see a huge collection of garbage accumulated in the parking area and that too just by the side of the so called Vismaya building. I thought it was a temporary set up but when I visited the same place after 1 week, everything remained the same and the foul smell of the waste garbage increased even more. I am wondering when our Government will take note of it and take necessary steps (Am sure that the Government officials would not do anything against it as long as they get something from somewhere:)). Anyhow here are some snaps of the waste dumping near Vismaya building that caught my attention few weeks back. Hope you all enjoy it.

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