Hyderabad outperforms Bengaluru in IT job creation : KTR

HYDERABAD: Out of the 4.5 lakh jobs created in the IT sector in India last year, 1.5 lakh or one-third of the total jobs were added by Hyderabad, outperforming Bengaluru which created 1.46 lakh jobs said Telangana Information Technology Minister(IT) K.T. Rama Rao on Monday.

Minister KTR encouraged the leaders of the IT industry to go beyond Hyderabad and into Tier II cities during an interactive session with IT industry experts held by the Hyderabad Software Enterprises Association (HYSEA) at Thrill City, Necklace Road.

He attributed the results gained over the last eight years to the combined efforts of the Department of Information Technology, Electronics, and Communications (ITE&C) and the IT industry.

The IT leaders gathered had responded with a loud applause when the Minister stated that the number of employees in the IT sector grew from 3.23 lakh to 8.7 lakh and the IT exports rose from Rs 57,000 Cr to Rs 1.83 Lakh Cr from 2014. “We all can take pride in these outcomes”, he said.

Citing Nasscom’s report, the Minister said that out of the 4.5 lakh jobs created in the IT sector in India last year, 1.5 lakh or one-third of the total jobs were added by Hyderabad leaving behind Bengaluru which created 1.46 lakh jobs. “The number of employees, employers who are looking at Hyderabad is growing. I sincerely believe that this is just the beginning,” KTR said.

Speaking about the two million jobs that were expected to be created in India in the coming years, the IT Minister said that the State government would continue to closely collaborate with the industry to latch up the opportunity. He appealed to the industry leaders to look beyond Hyderabad and expand their operations in Tier-II towns of the State, and urged them to point the State government to new opportunities, prospective investors. Asking them to guide the State government in a way that local youth get the bulk of the jobs, KTR said that the State had been working to see how partnership between industry and academia can be formed.

On the occasion, he spoke on the Telangana government's transport, digital, and other infrastructure initiatives since 2014. In addition, KTR said that technology that does not serve the average man is pointless. "Telangana tops the list of States in the metric of per capita e-transactions supplied through MeeSeva. "We are the first state to employ facial recognition to renew retirees' life certificates and in local body elections," he said.

The Minister also spoke about the robust innovation ecosystem created by Telangana Govt that includes T-Hub, WE HUB, Telangana State Innovation Cell (TSIC), WASH Hub, T-Works and others. He informed them that B-Hub for Biotech & Life Sciences Industries is in the pipeline and that T Works would be inaugurated this year.

Principal Secretary of IT, E&C Department, Jayesh Ranjan, Cyberabad Police Commissioner Stephen Raveendra, Hyderabad Police Commissioner CV Anand, Rachakonda Police Commissioner D.S. Chauhan, MD of Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited (HMRL) NVS Reddy, HYSEA’s President Manisha Saboo, Chief Relations Officer Amarnath Reddy Atmakuri and others attended the event.