Kolkata is the main financial, commercial city of East India. Kolkata along with its metropolitan region is fast emerging as a destination for software technology and has seen a growing number of tech parks being built here.
Major tech and IT hubs in Kolkata (precisely Kolkata Metropolitan Area or Greater Kolkata) are located at New Town, Salt Lake Sector-V and Bantala with a total estimated area of nearly 1000 Acres.
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The following is a list of notable IT parks (commercial places other than IT park not included) present in Greater Kolkata.
Salt Lake
Salt Lake (officially Bidhannagar) Sector V is the first and prime IT hub of the metropolitan area. Salt Lake Electronics Complex is India's first fully integrated Electronics Complex formed by Webel. The oldest IT building in West Bengal as well as East India was constructed here in 1988 which is the SDF Building, which was planned as Electronics building but later upgraded to IT.
New Town
New Town contains some of the biggest IT parks of East India. Biggest campus of TCS in East India is located here. New Town also contains tech parks which comes under Bengal Silicon Valley Tech Hub and Fintech Hub.