With Hyderabad becoming unwieldy, the Telangana government is planning to divert the investments in IT sector into the interior of the state. To attract the investors into the tier-2 cities in Telangana, the forthcoming IT policy is expected extend unprecedented incentives to the IT majors, that come forward to set up campuses in these cities.
Telangana IT department is holding talks with top notch domestic IT players, including Infosys, to persuade them to look beyond Hyderabad and set up their campuses in Tier-II cities like Warangal and Karimanagar, Nizambad and Khammam.
The state government is following the infosys model in the development of IT sector in the Telangana. Infosys has chosen Mysore instead of state capital to develop its biggest campus. The Infosys Mysore Campus is a mini city in itself. It is spread over 350 acres, with 12 million sft built-up area and has the capacity to host more than 15,000 trainees in addition to the 8000 employees and several thousand contract workers.
Telangana government wants a Mysore to emerge in the state also. According to sources, the state government is in touch with the Infosys to explore the possibility of developing a Mysore like IT-Hub in Warangal. The talk have been going on for the past three or four months. Though nothing concrete has emerged the T-IT department is hopeful of a positive outcome.
TS is expecting some announcement from Infosys in February 2016, when its Pocharam campus will be inaugurated. Pocharam, in the outskirts of Hyderabad, has been built to accommodate 25,000 seats.
Infosys MD and CEO Vishal Sikka has invited Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and IT minister K T Ramarao to inaugurate their largest campus at Pocharam in February. On the same day, it is expected that Telangana will announce its new IT Policy.
The new IT policy will have all attractions for the IT companies to venture into the interior Telangana and set up Mysore like Hub in tier-2 cities. Apart from offering incentives, the government will also invest in setting up required infrastructure in these towns.