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India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
n state of
Telangana Telangana (; , ) is a States and union territories of India, state in India situated on the south-central stretch of the Indian subcontinent, Indian peninsula on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the List of states and union territories of India b ...
has a significant amount of software export in
India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
. While the majority of the industry is concentrated in
Hyderabad Hyderabad ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and the ''de jure'' capital of Andhra Pradesh. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part ...
, other cities are also becoming significant IT destinations in the state. Hyderabad houses the largest campuses of tech giants like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple outside of the US. In Hyderabad, the central region of the business happens in Financial District,
HITECH City The Hyderabad Information Technology and Engineering Consultancy City, abbreviated as HITEC City, is an Indian information technology, engineering, health informatics, and bioinformatics, financial business district located in Hyderabad, Tel ...
, the
Madhapur Madhapur is a suburb of Hyderabad, India. It is noted as a centre of information technology activity. The heart of this area is called HITEC City which has the highest concentration of IT/ITES establishments in the city. Located in Ranga Reddy ...
suburb ,
Kokapet Kokapet is an emerging commercial and residential hub in Ranga Reddy District in Telangana, India. This place falls under Kokapet SEZ (Neopolis) and is as one of the most expensive commercial and residential locations in Hyderabad. It falls unde ...
SEZ (Neopolis) and Salarpuria Sattva Knowledge City. As of 2022, Hyderabad has 7,78,121 employees in the IT/ITES sector, working in more than 1500 companies. The number of startups in Telangana had increased from 400 in 2016 to 2,000 in 2022. Hyderabad added two companies in unicorn startup list in first two months of 2022. The IT exports from Hyderabad (Telangana) stood second in India at ₹183,569 crore (US$23 billion) in FY 2021–22 improving from previous year. IT sector exports from Telangana account for 50 per cent of total exports from state. Telangana contributed to over 11 per cent of India’s IT exports.


History

The initiation of this Software Industry in Hyderabad was started after Satyam Computer Services Ltd was founded in 1987 by brothers, Rama Raju and Ramalinga Raju (henceforth Raju) During the tenure of Rajiv Gandhi as prime minister with a motive of giving Hyderabad a start in Information Technology and Exports, the project was initiated by APIIC during tenure of Nedurumalli Janardhan Reddy as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh along with participation of private infrastructure companies like L&T, Raheja corporation, Ascendas IT Park, Vanenburg Corporation, Peepul Capital (successor to iLabs Venture Capital Fund), SP, RMZ corporation, Divyasree infrastructure, Lanco hills technology park, DLF, Emaar MGF and others. The area comprises IT parks such as L&T Infocity, Hitech City 2 , Tech Mahindra IT SEZ, TCS Synergy park IT SEZ, SEZs of Infosys, Wipro SEZ, Vanenburg IT Park or The V, Mindspace Cyberabad SEZ, DLF IT SEZ and APIIC , built to suit campuses of several major technology companies. Later Chief Ministers of Andhra Pradesh/Telangana N Chandrababu Naidu , YS Rajashekar Reddy , K Chandrashekar Rao initiated different developmental activities in Hyderabad IT industry The Hyderabad Information Technology and Engineering Consultancy City, abbreviated as HITEC City, is an Indian Information Technology, Engineering, Health informatics, and Bioinformatics; business district located in Hyderabad. HITEC City is spread across 200 acres of land under suburbs of Madhapur, Gachibowli, Kondapur, Manikonda, and Nanakramguda, the technology township is also known as Cyberabad. HITEC City is within two kilometers of the residential and commercial suburb of Jubilee Hills. HITEC City was commissioned by Larsen and Toubro Limited through its Special Purpose Vehicle, L&T Hitech City Limited, a joint venture company of L&T Infocity Limited and erstwhile Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation. The project is spread over 300 acres of land and was envisaged to develop around 11,000,000 sq ft . of IT space and around 4,500,000 sq ft. of residential space in a phased manner. The Project offers multi tenanted as well as Built-to-suit (BTS) facilities. It caters to all segments of the IT Industry including small & medium enterprises, with office areas starting from as small as around 2,500 sq ft .


Nanakramguda Financial District

Nanakramguda Financial District is an IT, real estate and architectural suburb in Gachibowli, Hyderabad. WaveRock is a 2.5 million square feet (sqft) Information Technology-Special Economic Zone (IT-SEZ) in Nanakramguda spread over 12 acres (approx). WaveRock SEZ houses over 25 IT companies including marquee clients such as Apple, GAP, Accenture, Development Bank of Singapore, DuPont among others, and has close to 25,000 to 30,000 employees working out of the premises. In December 2019, WaveRock was bought by the Shapoorji Pallonji Real Estate Fund (SPREF II) for Rs 1,800 crore from Tishman Speyer. File:Amazon campus in Financial district.jpg, Amazon campus in Financial district.jpg File:Q-City building in Financial district.jpg, Q-city File:Waverock buildings in Financial district (2).jpg, Waverock buildings


HITEC City

The IT industry got a major push By N. Chandrababu Naidu setting up Larsen & Toubro with policy maker APIIC built a special economic zone called Hyderabad Information Technology Engineering Consultancy City or simpl
HITEC City
It started the era of Software & IT in Hyderabad.


Salarpuria Sattva Knowledge City

Salarpuria Sattva Knowledge City is a 7.5 million sft IT park spread across 30 acres and 5 megatowers. It is home to global behemoths like JP Morgan, Intel, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, Novartis Healthcare, Synchrony Financial, AMD and KPMG. The Bengaluru-based builder , Salarpuria Sattva partnered with Blackstone recently to develop a 7 million sq ft IT park in Hyderabad.


IT Industry in Warangal

In February 2016, Telangana IT Minister
K. T. Rama Rao Kalvakuntla Taraka Rama Rao (born 24 July 1976), popularly known by his initials KTR, is an Indian politician serving as the Minister for Municipal Administration & Urban Development, Industries & Commerce, and Information Technology of Telan ...
laid the foundation stone for IT incubation centre at
Madikonda Madikonda is a neighbourhood of Warangal in Telangana, India. It is on the way from Hyderabad to Warangal on National Highway 163 (India). During 2011 Census, Madikonda which was earlier a partly rural village have been classified as fully outgr ...
,
Warangal Warangal () is a city in the Indian state of Telangana and the district headquarters of Warangal district. It is the second largest city in Telangana with a population of 704,570 per 2011 Census of India, and spreading over an . Warangal ser ...
. In January 2020, two major companies namely
Tech Mahindra Tech Mahindra is an Indian multinational information technology services and consulting company. Part of the Mahindra Group, the company is headquartered in Pune and has its registered office in Mumbai. Tech Mahindra is a 6.0 billion company w ...
and
Cyient Cyient (formerly Infotech Enterprises Limited) is an Indian multinational technology company that is focused on engineering, manufacturing, data analytics, and networks and operations. Infotech Enterprises Ltd. was established in 1991 in Hyde ...
have inaugurated their campuses employing about 2,000 people. Softpath, Quadrant started their operations in the Warangal IT Tower/Incubation Centre.


See also

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Information technology in India The information technology industry in India comprises information technology services, consulting, and outsourcing. The share of the IT-BPM sector in the GDP of India is 7.4% in FY 2022. The IT and BPM industries' revenue is estimated at $2 ...
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Software industry in Karnataka The software industry in Karnataka state in India has become one of the main pillars of the state's economy. Karnataka stands first among all the states of India in terms of revenue generated from software exports, accounting for 41.6% of all so ...
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List of Indian IT companies This is a list of notable companies in the information technology sector based in India. Top Indian companies are listed in descending order of their market capitalization, and other companies are listed alphabetically, grouped by the citie ...


References

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