Tuesday 18 June 2013

Testing and Measurement in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala

Today's testing and measurement website hotspot is Thiruvananthapuram.

The capital of Kerala province, India, Thiruvananthapuram was referred to by Gandhi as 'the evergreen city of India'. The city has a population around 750,000, while about a million more live in the city's suburbs, but is famous for its green spaces as well as the usual big city attractions.

Thiruvananthapuram is a centre of commerce and regional government, as well as being an academic and technological hub, with the University of Kerala, but especially the two major space institutions, the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre and Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology attracting some of the world's top scientists. Information technology and biotech are also well represented, both in research and commercial institutions.

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