Telangana’s 3D mantra to see five new IT Hubs in districts, says KTR

The Mahabubnagar IT Hub was almost a month away from being inaugurated, he said, adding that Minister V Srinivas Goud had been 'extremely diligent' in his efforts.

Hyderabad: Telangana will soon have five new Information Technology Hubs in different districts as part of the State government’s vision to expand the IT and ITES sector to Tier-II towns. These will be at Nizamabad, Mahabubnagar, Nalgonda, Siddipet and Adilabad.

Announcing this on Saturday, IT and Industries Minister KT Rama Rao said the State government was taking information technology to the district headquarters as part of its 3D Mantra – Digitise, Decarbonise and Decentralise. While the Warangal, Khammam and Karimnagar IT Hubs were already up and running successfully, next in line would be IT Hubs at Nizamabad, Mahabubnagar, Nalgonda, Siddipet and Adilabad, he said.

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In a series of tweets, tagging pictures of the upcoming structures for these IT Hubs, Rama Rao said the Nizamabad IT Hub was almost ready to be inaugurated and paid his compliments to MLA Ganesh Bigala for his ‘persistent efforts’ and also to BRS NRI Cell global coordinator Mahesh Bigala for bringing in NRI-led enterprises to invest in providing employment opportunities to locals.

The Mahabubnagar IT Hub was almost a month away from being inaugurated, he said, adding that Minister V Srinivas Goud had been ‘extremely diligent’ in his efforts. The Siddipet IT Hub was shaping up well with the focused efforts of Minister T Harish Rao he said, adding that a few months from now, after the Nizamabad and Mahabubnagar IT Hubs, the Siddipet IT Hub too would be unveiled.

The Nalgonda IT Hub, meanwhile, was under construction and efforts were being made to complete it expeditiously in four to six months, he said, thanking the efforts of Minister G Jagadish Reddy and Nalgonda MLA K Bhupal Reddy.

In a statement later, the Minister said the Tier-II locations offered several advantages over metros and generate employment for rural youth of the State.

Efforts were being put in, as per Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao’s vision to expand the IT sector to all corners of the State. Warangal was a testament of the constructive steps taken as it turned into the second largest IT hub in the State where reputed companies have set up their offices, he said.

The Minister, pointing out that the State government had created a conducive atmosphere and world-class infrastructure in Hyderabad, which attracted global IT companies to set up campuses in the city, urged the top leadership of companies to expand their operations into the Tier-II Towns of the State where similar infrastructure was being built.

“Talented youth from rural parts of the State are pursuing academics from reputed educational institutions located in Tier-II Towns,” he said, citing the National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Warangal and Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (RGUKT) in Basar, Nizamabad.

Listing out the measures that were being taken to make the young students industry-ready, the Minister said the students were being exposed to innovation by taking them on a tour of T-HUB, T-Works, WE-Hub and other similar entities from the innovation ecosystem created by the State government. Efforts were also underway to provide the students with apprenticeships in industries for six months, he added.