Amid IT job cuts, Mindtree to hire 1,400 employees in Bhubaneswar

The company's campus is spread across 20 acres of land

Midsized IT company Mindtree plans to increase its headcount by 1400 at its Bhubaneswar campus in next six months.

"The expansion of Mindtree with additional two lakh sq ft will be completed in next six months which will have additional employment of 1,400 IT (information technology) professionals" , Electronics and Information Technology minister Chandra Sarathi Behera said here.

The company's campus, Mindtree Kalinga, as it is named, is spread across 20 acres of land. It hosts the Global Learning Center and the Social Centre of the company.

Behera said, Mindtree started its operation at Bhubaneswar with Global Learning Centre from September 2015 with a built up space of five lakh sq ft and having IT manpower of 900.

The minister said the four major IT companies Infosys, Tech-Mahindra, Wipro and TCS have made huge expansion of their development centres in Bhubaneswar during last three years.

Infosys had started its second development centre with two lakh sq ft space at InfoValley, Bhubaneswar in 2015.

TCS had made the Phase-ll expansion at TCS Kalinga Park with 4.5 lakh sq ft space in 2015 and Tech-Mahindra expanded with second software development block in December, 2014 with 1.5 lakh sq ft space.

While the sector provided employment to only 1,500 in the year 2000 and 9,800 in 2014, it is now 17,000 in 2017, the minister told media persons.

It may be noted that the IT majors have contributed to the IT exports from the state. The export from the state which was only Rs 91 crore in the year 2000 has increased to Rs 3,400 crore in the year 2016-17 putting the state at a commendable position in the IT map of the country.

The IT growth of the state has been higher than the national rate since 2006, he added.