Smarting from a lost opportunity 

SmartCity Kochi was billed to be Kerala’s flagship project, which would catapult it into the global IT landscape and reinvent it as an investment destination. But faced roadblocks all along and never really took off fully. The project is as good as shelved now, with the State Cabinet approving a plan for the exit of the Dubai-based Tecom Investments Group from it, reports M.P. Praveen