KTR Visits Hardware Park, Science City

Telangana Minister for Information Technology and Panchayat Raj K.T. Rama Rao on Saturday visited the two phases of hardware park, e-city and science city here and examined the infrastructure facilities being provided by the Telangana State Industrial Infrastructure Corporation.

The Minister was accompanied by Managing Director of TSIIC Jayesh Ranjan, IT Secretary Harpreet Sing and TSIIC officials E.V. Narasimha Reddy, A. Lakshmikantha Reddy and P.V. Rao.

In the phase-one of hardware park, the Minister visited the sites Stargage and JT Holdings on the 1,740 acres layout and enquired about the park including established units and their line of activity, employment generated, vacancy position, facilities provided by the companies to their staff and infrastructure provided by TSIIC.

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Hyderabad’s strength is IT

The Telangana region will have to continue to bank on Hyderabad and its growth to achieve economic sustainability.

The city which is the bone of contention between the two regions, has already made a mark internationally thanks to the rapid growth of the IT industry.

The traditional strength of Hyderabad is the presence of several defence and public sector undertakings.

The recently-announced Information Technology Investment Region has raised the hopes of T-protagonists who believe that the project will take the capital to the next level in the international arena.

The Centre will fund the Rs 2.19 lakh crore for the ITIR, which would be spread over Gachibowli, Madhapur, Maheshwaram, Mamidipalli, Raviryal and Adibatla in the south and Uppal and Pocharam areas.

The unfinished semi-conductor hub, Fab City, in Maheshwaram will also be included under the ITIR. The hub will be developed over a period of 30 years in two phases with the first phase ending after five years.

According to the government, Information Technology/Information Technology Enabled Services (ITeS) is expected to attract an investment of about Rs 1.18 lakh crore while the Electronics Hardware Manufacturing sector would attract Rs 1.01 lakh crore worth of investment.

TCS likely to open largest delivery centre in Hyderabad next fiscal

India's leading software firm Tata Consultancy Services is likely to open its largest delivery centre at Adibatla here by early next fiscal.

Executive Vice President and Global Head-HR Ajoyendra Mukherjee said the centre will accommodate 26,000 employees. He refused, however, to divulge the investment that is going into the setting up of the centre.

TCS expects 23,000 new employees to join the firm by the end of the current fiscal, he said.

"Today we have over 24,000 people working here spread across multiple delivery locations in Hyderabad. We are building a new complex in Adibatla which is on 79 acres and which will have 26,000 seats. It is something early next financial year we should be able to start our operations in that facility," Mukherjee told PTI.

Company sources said meanwhile that the centre would be TCS' single largest faculty at a single location.

On the recruitment process, Mukherjee said as many as 27,000 people have joined TCS so far in the current fiscal and another 23,000 are expected to join the Q3 and Q4.

ITsAP Seeks another IT District Like Cyberabad

The IT and ITES Industry Association of Andhra Pradesh (ITsAP) on Thursday submitted a long list of suggestions for accelerated growth of the Information Technology and IT Enabled Services in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, to all major political parties in the run up for the ensuing elections.

Further, it has appealed to the successive governments of the two states to create another IT district like Cyberabad to help stimulate growth of the industry.

ITsAP has urged the government to speed up infrastructure development projects such as Metro Rail, Special Purpose Business Zone, inter-connectivity of IT clusters such as Hitec City-Pocharam, Hitec City-Shamshabad/Adibatla IT cluster, etc.

According to V Rajanna, president of ITsAP, the industry wants the government to declare IT district a high security zone and provide Rs 50 crore one-time investment to strengthen security and other infrastructure to address the security concerns of IT and ITeS sector.

“We want government to strengthen the industrial area local authority (IOLA) with industry representation something similar to Cherlapally model to resolve many issues towards zero power cut for the IT industry and others,” he noted. Further, he said that industry recommended the formulation of preferential policies, incentives for startups, incubation centres, tax benefits, etc.

“A new scheme to reimburse taxes paid by SMEs that have turnovers up to Rs 10 to 50 cr could be planned. Also, the industry wants the government to revise its stand on VAT, improved frequency of airline services, and construction of airports in tier II cities,’’ added Rajanna.

The president of ITsAP also recommended to create an apprenticeship/training programme that links the industry and colleges with a government supported incentive programme to improve employability of the third and fourth year BTech and MTech students.

Also, it has recommended setting up of a 24x7 chief minister grievance cell by leveraging technology.