Kolkata is the main financial, commercial city of East India. Kolkata along with its metropolitan region is fast emerging as a destination for software technology and has seen a growing number of tech parks being built here.

Skyline of Salt Lake Sector V

Major tech and IT hubs in Kolkata (precisely Kolkata Metropolitan Area or Greater Kolkata) are located at New Town, Salt Lake Sector-V and Bantala with a total estimated area of nearly 1000 Acres.

The following is a list of notable tech and business parks present in Greater Kolkata.

Salt Lake

Salt Lake (officially Bidhannagar) Sector V is the first and prime IT hub of the metropolitan area. Salt Lake Electronics Complex is India's first fully integrated Electronics Complex formed by Webel.[1] The oldest IT building in West Bengal as well as East India was constructed here in 1988 which is the SDF Building, which was planned as Electronics building but later upgraded to IT.

Complex name Company Area Office space Location About Established/ Operation started Ref(s)
Godrej Waterside Godrej 6 Acres 22 lakh sq. ft. Bidhannagar Sector V 2 towers having 13 storeys (1 basement) and 20 storeys (2 basement) 2016 [2]
Godrej Genesis Godrej 4.29 Acres 13 lakh sq. ft. Bidhannagar Sector V 1 tower having 19 storeys (1 basement) 2014 [3]
Millennium City IT Park Rungta Group 2.5 Acres 14 lakh sq. ft. Bidhannagar Sector V 2 towers having 9 storeys and 15 storeys 2005 [4]


Wipro SEZ Wipro 20 Acres 10 lakh sq. ft. Bidhannagar Sector V 5 towers 2004 [5][6]


Bengal Eco Intelligent Park Techna Infrastructure 3.5 Acres 9 lakh sq. ft. Bidhannagar Sector V 5 towers with two of them having 17 and 19 storeys 2017 [7]
Infinity Think Tank Infinity Group 2 Acres 2.8 lakhs sq. ft. Bidhannagar Sector V 2 towers with 12 storeys and 17 storeys [8]
Infinity Adventz Infinity Group 2.5 Acres 8.5 lakhs sq. ft. Bidhannagar Sector V [9]
Imagine Tech Park Simplex Infrastructures Limited 1.5 acres 7 lakh sq. ft. Bidhannagar Sector V 1 tower with 27 storeys and basement 2023 [10]


Infinity Benchmark Infinity Group 2.5 Acres 5 lakhs sq. ft. Bidhannagar Sector V 1 tower with 19 storeys and basement 2009 [11]
Infinity IT Lagoon Infinity Group 2.5 Acres 4.9 lakhs sq. ft. Bidhannagar Sector V 1 tower with 16 storeys and basement 2014 [12]


Merlin Infinite Merlin Group
Infinity Group		 2 Acres 5.8 lakhs sq. ft. Bidhannagar Sector V 2014 [13]
TCS Delta Park TCS 3.5 Acres Bidhannagar Sector V 3 buildings: Delta, Lords and Eden building


Martin Burn Tech Park Infinity Group 1 Acre 4 lakh sq. ft. Bidhannagar Sector V 1 tower with 19 storeys and basement 2013 [14]


Globsyn Crystals Globsyn Techologies
Bengal Shrachi
Surekha Group		 2 Acres 6 lakh sq. ft. Bidhannagar Sector V 2 towers [15]


Saltee Tech Park Saltee Group 2 Acres 1.05 lakh sq. ft. Bidhannagar Sector V One tower with 15 storeys and basement 2005


Srijan Tech Park Srijan Group
PS Group		 2 acres 5 lakh sq. ft. Bidhannagar Sector V One tower with 16 storeys and basement 2009
Cognizant Techno Complex Cognizant 3 Acres 1.38 lakhs sq. ft. Bidhannagar Sector V 2004 [16]


Webel Tower I WEBEL Bidhannagar Sector V [17]
Webel Tower II WEBEL Bidhannagar Sector V [18]
STPI Kolkata STPI 2 acres 65000 sq. ft. Bidhannagar Sector V 1995 [19][20]
Magatherm Megatherm Electronics 1.5 lakh sq. ft. Bidhannagar Sector V 1 tower with 11 storeys and basement 2015 [21]
Technopolis Forum Group 1.5 Acres 7 lakh sq. ft. Bidhannagar Sector V 1 tower with 15 storeys and basement, India's first green IT park 2006 [22]
SLS Tower Multicon realty 1.4 lakhs sq. ft. Bidhannagar Sector V 1 tower with 17 storeys and basement 2016 [23]
Ambient 44,000 sq. ft. Bidhannagar Sector V 1 tower with 11 storeys 2011 [24]
SDF IT Park WEBEL 1.5 Acres 2.5 lakhs sq. ft. Bidhannagar Sector V Oldest IT building in Salt Lake Sector V 1988 [25][26]
Shaila Tower 1 Acre 80,000 sq. ft. Bidhannagar Sector V 2010 [27]
Webel Manibhandar IT Park WEBEL 1 Acre 38,056 sq. ft. Bidhannagar Sector V [28]
Webel STP II IT Park WEBEL 0.2 Acres 54,166 sq. ft. Bidhannagar Sector V [29]
Webel Bhaban IT Park WEBEL 0.5 Acre 6,788 sq. ft. Bidhannagar Sector V [30]
Salt Lake Incubation Center IT Park WEBEL 0.5 Acre 3,456 sq. ft. Bidhannagar Sector V [31]

New Town

New Town contains some of the biggest IT parks in India. Biggest campus of TCS in East India is located here.[32] New Town also contains tech parks which comes under Bengal Silicon Valley Tech Hub and Fintech Hub.

Complex name Company Area Office space Location About Established/ Opened Ref(s)
Candor Tech Space (Unitech Infospace Hi-Tech park) Unitech Group 48 Acre 30 lakh sq. ft. New Town Action Area I SEZ 2005 [33]
TCS Gitanjali Park TCS 40 Acre 22 lakh sq. ft. New Town Action Area II SEZ 2016 [34][35]
TCS Sanchayita Park 2 lakh sq. ft. 2023


DLF IT Park 1 DLF 9.5 Acre 13 lakh sq. ft. New Town Action Area IA 3 towers with 13 storeys, 9 storeys and 16 storeys. 2005 [7]
DLF IT Park 2 DLF 25 Acre 25 lakh sq. ft. New Town Action Area II SEZ, 4 towers (3 under construction) 2015 [36]
Mani Casadona IT Park Mani Group 13 Acre 14.79 lakh sq. ft. New Town CBD 2 towers with 17 storeys and 2 basements each 2016 [37]


Shrachi Synthesis Park Shrachi Group 14.82 Acre 5.04 lakh sq. ft. New Town CBD 1 tower with 12 storeys 2010 [38]
Webel Rajarhat IT Park I WEBEL 0.5 Acre 20,700 sq. ft. New Town Action Area ID One tower with 5 storeys [39]
Webel Rajarhat IT Park II WEBEL 1 Acre 22,000 sq. ft. New Town Action Area ID One tower with five storeys [40]
Rishi Tech Park Rishi group 0.64 Acre 8284 sq. ft. New Town Action Area ID One tower with 6 storeys and basement 2011 [41]


Bantala

Cognizant Bantala Campus
Complex name Company Site area (Acreage) Office space Location About Established/ Opened Ref(s)
Cognizant Tech Park Cognizant 21 Acres 5.5 lakhs sq. ft. Bantala SEZ [42]
Dhunseri IT Park Dhunseri Petrochem & Tea Ltd 6.5 Acres 7.5 lakhs sq. ft. Bantala SEZ [43]

Others

Complex name Company Site area (Acreage) Office space Location About Established/ Opened Ref(s)
Webel IT Park Taratala WEBEL 1.5 Acre 29,000 sq. ft. Taratala One tower with five storeys [44]
Webel IT Park Howrah WEBEL 1 Acre 30,000 sq. ft. Ankurhati, Howrah One tower with four storeys [45]
Webel IT Park Kalyani I WEBEL 1 Acre 21,500 sq. ft. Kalyani One tower with four storeys [46]
Webel IT Park Kalyani II WEBEL 1 Acre 28,000 sq. ft. Kalyani One tower with four storeys [47]

Under construction or planned

Complex name Company Area Office space Location About Status Ref(s)
Merlin The Summit Merlin Group 2.2 Acre 5.25 lakh sq. ft. Bidhannagar Sector V Under construction [48][49]
ITC Sanskriti Infotech Park ITC Limited 17 Acre 30 lakh sq. ft. New Town Action Area IIIG Under construction
Wipro IT SEZ Rajarhat Wipro 50 Acre TBD New Town SEZ Under construction [50]
Infosys Software Development Centre Infosys 50 Acre 5.25 lakh sq. ft. (1st phrase) New Town Action Area IIIG Under construction [51][52]
TCS Campus TCS 20 Acre TBD New Town Action Area II Under construction [53][54]


LTIMindtree Development Centre LTIMindtree 19 Acre 3.6 lakhs sq. ft. New Town Action Area II Under construction [55] [56]
Webel IT Park WEBEL 5 Acre TBD New Town Action Area II Under construction [57]
Firstsource Solutions IT Park Firstsource Solutions 4 Acre TBD New Town Action Area II Under construction

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