In four and a half years, we got 9,000 people working in the IT park. We have already constructed 2.5 million square feet, and another two million square feet is under construction.'

According to him, the two million square feet is being developed by Infopark and co-developers like Larsen and Toubro, Wipro and Tata Consultancy.

'Infopark on its own will develop half a million square feet,' he said.

Maintaining that the downturn did not have any major impact on IT companies in Kerala, he added: 'However, in order to assist small and medium-sized companies we have decided to defer 50 percent of the rent from units located in the park for a year.'