By NewsGram Staff Writer

IT giant Infosys, led by Vishal Sikka, got a green light on his proposal to set up three more campuses in Bengaluru at an investment of Rs 1,918 crore from the Karnataka government on Saturday.

Infosys has proposed to develop one new campus at Electronic City and two at Konappana Agrahara in Bengluru. The company has claimed in its proposal that it will create 27,000 new jobs from these three projects.

The IT major has also planned a Software Technology Park with an estimated cost of Rs 1,079 crore. In this project, the number of direct employment would be 15,000.

The govt. also approved the proposal from Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited with an investment of Rs. 20,000 crore and another proposal from Biosciences with an investment of Rs. 235 crore.