Orion City enters IT infra development in Colombo

Colombo: Orion City, an IT Service Park, a private sector venture, managed by St Anthony’s Industries Group will be the next big step in the Sri Lankan IT infrastructure development in Colombo.

The Orion City is located next to the Baseline Road (Dr. Danister de Silva Mawatha) Colombo 9. With an estimated four million square feet to be developed in the 13 acre site within the next 10 years, Orion offers its tenants an ideal place to grow. It is a hassle free environment with ancillary and support services taken care of. Currently approx. 250,000 square feet have been developed.

Orion City is being built to work as a self contained city with modern facilities such as gymnasiums, shopping malls, swimming pools, food courts and in-house parking facilities etc where the employees of companies who have located themselves in the IT Service Park will be able to attend to their day to day family and personal requirements while working.

Other than providing IT facilitation to software development and BPO services companies, Orion City is also looking at the possibility of assisting and facilitating start-up companies by providing them with “incubation centres”.

The incubation centres will have all the necessary infrastructure facilities required to start an IT /BPO operation.

The Orion City officials were inspired by this novel concept of incubation centre that is being utilised by STPI (Software Technology Parks of India), while they were attending an IT/BPO/KPO Investment Promotion Mission in India organised by the Board of Investment (BOI) and Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) of Sri Lanka.

Orion City is committed to increasing the pool of IT and BPO sector trained professionals in Sri Lanka by attracting training institutions for potential joint ventures. It is also willing to offer specialised training to BPO/KPO companies in the areas of accountancy process outsourcing, law process out sourcing etc.

CEO of Orion Management Consortium, Orion City Jeevan Gnanam said this reflects the confidence of the St Anthony’s Industries Group in the future potential of Sri Lanka’s IT/BPO sector. Orion City is planning to build high end accommodation for overseas representatives who visit the city as this would be more cost effective and convenient than staying at a luxury hotel.