Kochi: Kalamassery
is already poised for a big leap in the innovation, IT and medical
sectors with a number firms having already started and more set to come.
However, public transport to the interior areas where these firms are
located is still a difficult proposition with very limited buses plying.
Now the Kalamassery Municipality has come forward to set up a bus stand
on 50 cents of land near the Kalamassery government medical college
campus, to overcome this lacuna.

The old firms dotting interior
Kalamassery are HMT, Naval Armament Depot, Kendriya Vidyalaya,
Government polytechnic, women’s polytechnic, government ITI, women’s
ITI, Food Craft Institute, Productivity Council and St Paul’s College.

The
firms that have come up in the same belt recently are NUALS, XIME, St
Paul’s International School, Government Medical College and the Startup
Village. The firms on the anvil are the international cancer research
institute and the innovation zone where 12 incubators worth Rs 150 crore
will be set up.

“State Government-controlled KINFRA, which
undertakes the development of industrial estates to nurture
industrialization in the state, has enough land at its disposal in the
area near medical college and we need just 50 cents of land to build the
bus stand. Once the land is given we will start construction of the bus
stand,” said Jamal Manakkadan, chairman, Kalamassery Municipality.