Telangana CM instructs officials during IT, Industries departmental review meeting
- State government aiming to decentralise job creation in underserved areas in Core Urban Regional Economy (CURE) and ‘Beyond CURE’, with goal to position Tier-2, Tier-3 cities as next growth engines
- To explore spreading out data centre establishment in underserved areas of Hyderabad and beyond
- Net-zero principles, while maintaining global standards, to be followed in Bharat Future City works
- Society to be formed for creating ‘Invest Telangana’ — a dedicated investment promotion agency
- Accelerate adoption of T-Fiber internet connections by all government offices in 3 months
Hyderabad, May 20: In view of massive interest from global conglomerates in setting up Global Capability Centres (GCCs) in Telangana, Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Wednesday asked officials to formulate a GCC policy so that companies opting to establish beyond the Hyderabad Core Urban Regional Economy (CURE) area are encouraged and incentivised. He instructed officials to encourage new GCCs along Nizamabad, Karimnagar and Warangal highways, classified between CURE and beyond CURE areas.
The Chief Minister, along with Minister D. Sridhar Babu, held a review meeting on various issues under the IT and Industries departments. Chief Secretary K. Ramakrishna Rao, B. Ajith Reddy, Special Secretary to CM, K. Shashanka, VC & MD, TGIIC, Anudeep Durishetty, Joint Secy., IT&C, Nikhil Chakravarthi, Director, Commissioner of Industries, and other officials attended the meeting.
The CM recommended that a few clusters be identified ‘Beyond CURE’, with a view to encourage decentralising GCCs to Tier-2 and Tier-3 locations. Underserved areas like locations along Nizamabad, Karimnagar and Warangal highways may also be encouraged for establishing GCCs as well as Data centres, he said.
The CM asserted that net-zero principles, while maintaining the highest of global standards, are to be followed in undertaking engineering works in Bharat Future City (BFC), adding that priority be given to creating trunk infrastructure in the various proposed zones.
Consultations will be initiated with the Government of India towards establishing one of the five regional medical hubs announced during the Union Budget recently, in the Health City under BFC. “If needed, I will take this up with the Hon’ble Prime Minister.”
Officials were asked to accelerate the works in the proposed AI City in BFC, after studying the best of practices in creating AI infrastructure across the world.
He also asked officials to make sure works in BFC are expedited so that the foundation stone laying for various facilities in the industrial corridor of BFC is held.
The CM ordered officials to encourage all companies getting land allotment in BFC to sign MoUs towards skilling and certification of the workforce to serve their talent needs.
With regard to the creation of a dedicated investment promotion agency ‘Invest Telangana’, he suggested to adopt the best practices from other states with a governance structure to cater to end to end solution for the investors and companies. He suggested that senior officials of certain departments like Energy and Finance be designated as ‘Special Invitees’ for smooth clearances and operations, while officials from the IT and Industries departments would serve as regular appointees.
A society would be formed for ‘Invest Telangana’, and the structure would be designed in such a way that it is a vibrant, dynamic functioning agency for aggressive investment promotion for the state. The CM suggested that an escort officer be dedicated to cater to end to end needs of prospective organisations, right from arrival in Hyderabad to grounding of operations.
The CM also instructed officials to chalk out a plan to ensure all government offices in the state shift to the usage of T-Fiber internet connection, from private operators. Officials have informed that in this regard, orders worth Rs 54 crore have been secured in the last six months from government offices which shifted to T-Fiber internet.