The 15th Village Park opened at Badiyadka

The Village Park at Badiyadka opened on 1 December 2024. The MLA for Kasaragod was to have inaugurated it and could not come, on an emergency, so I cut the ribbon myself.

A Village Park is a Global Capability Centre built in a village or a small town: an AI hub of twenty to twenty-five seats doing the work a floor of five hundred once did. Talrop builds and runs each one under a two-year Build, Operate and Transfer contract and then hands it over, and Estarel builds and provides the premises.

The reason to put them in villages is that the graduates are already there. The centre hires locally, trains for the work it has won, and teaches students alongside it, so nobody has to move to a city to do any of it.