New TCS campus to employ 16,500 IT and BPO professionals

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced that its new software development campus at Rajarhat will be functional by the end of the financial year 2014-15.

The new campus spread over 40 acres of land, once completed will house over 16,500 seats and is being constructed with an investment of Rs 13500 million approximately.

The campus will be built in two phases, with the first phase to be completed in the first quarter of 2014 and the second phase by the fourth quarter of the year. In the first phase, 7,000 seats will be ready, with the remaining 9,500 seats being completed in phase two.

Using sustainable, local materials for construction as well as by deploying green technologies effectively across the campus, TCS will aim to get the highest LEED certification to demonstrate its effectiveness in considerably reduce the environmental footprint of the campus.

Some of the salient features include the generation of 850 kilowatts of solar power for campus use, zero waste discharge facility with bio digester, sewerage treatment plant, extensive rain water harvesting to recharge aquifers in the area etc.