IT dept to review MindTree's city project

Worried over the tardy progress of the mid-sized IT solution provider MindTree's proposed development centre in Bhubaneswar, the state IT department has decided to review the status of project.

"More than one year has passed since MindTree laid foundation stone for its campus in the city. No remarkable progress has been made so far," said an official in the state IT department.

The status of the project will be reviewed soon at a convenient date, the official added.

MindTree, co-headquartered in Bangalore and Somerset in New Jersey (US), had announced an investment of around Rs 250 crore for its project in the city.

The Bhubaneswar centre, the fifth campus of the company after Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Pune, was to come up under the head MindTree Kalinga. It was proposed to be built on 800,000 square foot area and was likely to have three software development blocks, and one academic and one residential block. The Bhubaneswar campus was to house all the services wings of the company including specialised Product Engineering Services.