Tata Consulting Services (TCS), a major outsourcing firm in India has announced plans to build the world’s largest corporate training facility in the country, specifically in the southern coastal city of Thiruvananthapuram. The facility would occupy 100 acres of land and will contain over 6 million square feet of buildings.
When completed, it would have the capacity to train 50,000 IT professionals annually and about 15,000 at any given time.
TCS, according to Forbes, has about 300,000 employees and is India’s largest private sector employer. Most of the company’s workers are based in India and the average employee age is 27 years. The company said the humongous facility will train ‘India’s next generation of engineers and professionals’.
Forbes said: “The TCS Learning Campus, when ready, will outdo rival Infosys’ huge training base in the southern city of Mysore, a 337-acre mega campus that now holds the title of the ‘world’s largest corporate training facility’ with 1.5 million square feet of built-up space including 485 faculty rooms and seven food courts. Infosys’ learning center can accommodate 14,000 trainees at one go.”
It added that the ttraining campus will be organized around a central, iconic training building at a high plateau in the middle of the site and will include libraries and food courts. The residential buildings will have over 600 rooms. The training center’s construction began after prime minister Manmohan Singh laid the foundation stone a couple of weeks ago and it will be completed in five years.
“The orientation of the buildings has been planned to take advantage of prevailing wind conditions and increase passive cooling. The campus is planned as a sustainable facility with rain harvesting, 100% waste recycling and energy efficient systems,” Forbes said.
