Zee’s Kidzcare to come in IT and BPO cities – Bhubaneswar among the 8 names mentioned
Bhubaneswar- Cuttack- Puri, Infosys, IT, IT, Back office, BPO, K-12, KG, Khordha, Satyam, TCS, WIPRO July 30th. 2007, 5:07pmFollowing are excerpts from televisionpoint.com’s report.
Mumbai based Zee Interactive Learning Systems (ZILS) is looking at its child care division, Kidzcare, as a major growth-driver in the years to come. …
Arun Khetan, CEO, ZILS said, “The franchised childcare centres, Kidzcare, are geared to meet the gap in proper existing childcare programmes. We will be setting up a total of 35 Kidzcare centres in this financial year.”
According to Khetan, the demand for these centres is mostly from the IT and BPO crowd. “Thus, the Kidzcare centres will mostly come up in places like Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Delhi, Bhubaneswar, Mumbai, Pune and Chennai.”
ZILS has plans to add another 70-75 centres in the next fiscal, while the target by 2011-12 has been set at 500 centres. The company expects Kidzcare to contribute about 25% to its turnover within the next five years. The Kidzcare concept operates on the franchisee model. The cost of setting up each centre ranges between Rs 10 lakh to Rs 45 lakh, not including the premises.
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October 21st, 2007 at 2:12 am
I had enrolled my child in kidzcare Indira nagar and I feel it was the worst decision of my life. The people here are very rude and irresponsible. They claim that they note everything your child eats in breakfast and lunch etc. But once I went during lunch time and saw from the glass that the child had thrown all the chapati and rice on floor. when I asked did the child have food, they said the child had one full chapati and rice. Moreover, no personalised attention is given to child. The milk bottles of all children are mixed. When I asked teacher, she said that they cannot concentrate only on one child and replied very rudely. I would say not to put your child here and risk his health.