India’s first Nano park to come up in Bangalore

India’s first Nano park to come up in Bangalore

Bangalore , August 9: Karnataka is planning to set up the country's first Nano park here as it eyes to garner a major share of action in the emerging, cutting-edge technology area.

‘First nano park in India will be set up in Bangalore’, the state's it and BT secretary, M N Vidyashankar told.

His department has identified a 15-acre plot north of Bangalore. An advisory committee, headed by eminent scientist C N R Rao, had sought land for the park.

‘Once we get the nod from the committee, we will set up the park’, Vidyashankar said.

Karnataka is hosting its maiden global nano event here on December six and seven.

Meanwhile, vidyashankar said us-based dale Carnegie training institute is setting up a base here.

This institute would initially operate from temporary premises, and plans to train 7,000-8,000 it graduates in the first year it has plans to train biotech graduates at a later stage, according to him.

The institute has been allotted 35-acres of land at Ramanagara, near Bangalore, from where chief minister H D Kumaraswamy was elected to the state assembly, to set up its own infrastructure, for which it has set aside funds of Rs 70 crore, he said.

Vidyashankar also said two biotech finishing schools would start operating here from this year.