The two finished DLF campus buildings in off-white and blue mosaic ulterior and the Infosys campus, with its distinct anchor shaped glass building, around 5,000 people have already started working in offices here.

With each leap, it is becomning clear that the park will not be your usual sea of concrete. The days to come will see a common food court for employees, facilities like gymnasia, small coffee shops, a squash court and the much talked about DLF multiplex.

While Infosys is building an additional block adjacent to the existing one, DLF’s first block is dedicated to a mall-cum-multiplex. there are going to be three other blocks in the building to house software companies like IBM Daksh, Tech Mahindra and Infosys.

Slow progress
Some feel that the park could have been developed at a faster pace. “When I moved in around May 2005, I thought in two years, the place would be full of other campuses. But it didn’t happen. The one general impression here is that companies are slow to come and complete work,” says an employee at the park. Tech Mahindra, whose campus is to come up in Phase II of the project, claims it is incurring losses because of the slow speed of work on fencing the SEZ area. “We were told that work will begin on October but we have been waiting for three months. Till the area is completely fenced, we will not be able to get the benefits of an SEZ like duty-free construction...,” says Ranjit Puri of Tech Mahindra. A Wipro campus will come up in the SEZ area. UT Chief Engineer S K Jaitley says fencing of the SEZ will take another month and a half as the tendering of work is in progress. Director IT Manjit Brar says, “We have our own set of norms and procedures which can not be changed. The tender should be finalised in a week’s time and we can not change the procedure for a company”. The administration is planning to erect an over six-feet high fence with two gates.