Kinfra International Apparel Park (KIAP) is located at Thiruvananthapuram

Thiruvananthapuram

Thiruvananthapuram , formerly known as Trivandrum, is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala and the headquarters of the Thiruvananthapuram District. It is located on the west coast of India near the extreme south of the mainland...

 (Trivandrum), the capital city of Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

 state in India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. KIAP provides infrastructure and other related facilities for the garment manufacturing

Textile industry

The textile industry is primarily concerned with the production of yarn, and cloth and the subsequent design or manufacture of clothing and their distribution. The raw material may be natural, or synthetic using products of the chemical industry....

units. This park is operated by KINFRA (Kerala Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation), a public sector agency in the state. The KIAP is a fully owned subsidiary of KINFRA, a statutory body of Government of Kerala. KIAP has successfully implemented the Government of India scheme named "Apparel Parks for Exports Scheme".http://www.apparelpark.com/. The company is presently headed by Mr. J. Krishna Kumar who is the Mananging Director. Dr. Unnikrishnan. T heads the projects division as Manager (Technical). The finance matters are being dealt by Mr. R. Prakash