Smart City Directors board meeting in Kochi

The second director board meeting of Smart City will be held at the Taj Malabar here on Wednesday at 5 pm.

All director board members are expected to attend the meeting. Fisheries Minister S Sarma who is the chairman of Smart City Kochi, IT secretary Ajayakumar, Tecom chief executive officer Abdul Lathif Al Mulla who is the vice-chairman of the Smart City, executive director of Smart City Fareed Abdul Rahman, Dubai Internet City director Jamal Abdul Salam and project director Baju George will attend the meeting.

The lease agreement for the remaining 11.5 acres of land for the Smart City project is expected to be signed during the meeting. The master planer for preparing the master plan of the Smart City will also be finalised during the board meeting.

Tecom officials have not yet submitted an application to the Union Government for approving the 100 acres land acquired from the KSEB, as Special Economic Zone.

The first director board meeting of Smart City was held on December 2007. But the registration of the 234.5 acres land handed over by the government to Tecom on November 15 2007 had not been conducted as the State Government has not exempted stamp duty and registration fee.