{"id":34,"date":"2007-05-26T18:47:08","date_gmt":"2007-05-26T22:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissawatch.org\/Infra\/?p=34"},"modified":"2007-06-14T13:18:20","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T17:18:20","slug":"icici-bank-mou-with-orissa-government-on-a-regional-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/34","title":{"rendered":"ICICI bank signs MOU with Orissa government on a Regional hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slowly more news about this is coming out. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/fe_full_story.php?content_id=165366\">Financial Express<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kalingatimes.com\/orissa_news\/news\/20070526_ICICI_Bank_to%20_set_up_Eastern_Regional_Hub_in_Orissa.htm\">Kalinga Times<\/a>, Tathya.in <a href=\"http:\/\/tathya.in\/story.asp?sno=951\">1<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/tathya.in\/story.asp?sno=954\">2<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/tathya.in\/story.asp?sno=956\">3<\/a> ]. Following are some salient points culled from various news articles. (More will be added as more news report come in.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/fe_full_story.php?content_id=165366\">Financial Express<\/a>: <em>The hub, which will come up on a built-up area of 1.5 million sqft n the Chandaka Industrial Estate of the city, will act as a centre or convergence of the bank&#8217;s activities, like call centre, ack-office operations for banking &amp; insurance as well as sales and administration.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/fe_full_story.php?content_id=165366\">Financial Express<\/a>: <em>The proposed hub would accommodate approximately 10,000 people in a phased manner and have the capacity to scale up the operations in future to a potential of 15,000 manpower<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/fe_full_story.php?content_id=165366\">Fiancial Express<\/a>: <em>&#8220;ICICI Bank selected Bhubaneswar for its eastern regioanal hub after choosing Hyderabad and Ahmedabad for the southern and western hubs, respectively, because of the initiative taken by the Orissa government,&#8221; said Kamath. He said the first phase of the hub would be fully operational in two years and the second phase will be completed in the next three years<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kalingatimes.com\/orissa_news\/news\/20070526_ICICI_Bank_to%20_set_up_Eastern_Regional_Hub_in_Orissa.htm\"> <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kalingatimes.com\/orissa_news\/news\/20070526_ICICI_Bank_to%20_set_up_Eastern_Regional_Hub_in_Orissa.htm\">Kalinga Times<\/a>: <em>In order to ensure availability of skilled local manpower, the bank has already started working in a partnership model with two universities in Orissa. In this regard, a separate MoU was signed between the bank and Utkal niversity on the occasion for offering various skill enabling and vocational courses in the domains of banking, finance and insurance. &#8230; Later in the day, the bank signed another                                        MoU with KIIT University for running of                                        an e-Learning Centre like the one to be                                        run by Utkal University<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tathya.in\/story.asp?sno=956\">Tathya.in<\/a>: <em>Naveen also asked Kamath to facilitate the Institute of Entrepreneurship Development (IED) into a national level Centre of Excellence.ICICI has played a crucial role in developing EDI at Ahemadabad to a national level institute.Kamath promised to look into the matter, said sources<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slowly more news about this is coming out. [Financial Express, Kalinga Times, Tathya.in 1,2,3 ]. Following are some salient points culled from various news articles. (More will be added as more news report come in.)<\/p>\n<p>    * Financial Express: The hub, which will come up on a built-up area of 1.5 million sqft n the Chandaka Industrial Estate of the city, will act as a centre or convergence of the bank&#8217;s activities, like call centre, ack-office operations for banking &#038; insurance as well as sales and administration<br \/>\n    * Financial Express: The proposed hub would accommodate approximately 10,000 people in a phased manner and have the capacity to scale up the operations in future to a potential of 15,000 manpower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bhubaneswar-cuttack-puri","category-icici"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}