Minister for IT, Sri KT Rama Rao, held wide-ranging meetings with captains of IT industry, academia and government to formulate strategy for the growth of IT sector in Telangana as soon as he assumed office in 2014.
The IT Minister along with his team of senior officials of the Department covered major countries from Japan to USA promoting Telangana as the ideal investment destination. Thanks to the Department’s unflinching and consistent efforts, several technology majors have either started investing in Telangana or have expanded their existing operations by manifold.
Telangana has become the most preferred destination in the country thanks to the path-breaking TSiPASS and other business-friendly ICT policies. Telangana today is home to more than 1500 IT/ ITeS firms including the five of the top 10 most valuable tech companies in the world – Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet (Google), Meta (Facebook).
Reinforcing the Telangana government’s efforts to de-congest Hyderabad, IT and Industries minister KT Rama Rao, on Wednesday, urged investors to look towards the east and north of the city too.
Giving a new fillip for development of the IT industry in Hyderabad, the State Cabinet approved a Grid policy (Growth in Dispersion) to ensure that the companies are spread across the city.
IT and Industries Minister K T Rama Rao on Tuesday inaugurated the new Karimnagar IT Tower and a regional office of Telangana Academy of Skills and Knowledge.
IT and Industries Minister KTR spoke at the Hyderabad GRID (Growth In Dispersion) Development program in Uppal.
IT and Industries Minister KTR continues to hold back to back bilateral meetings with industry leaders from across the world at Davos.
Minister met head honchos of several global business houses at the Telangana Pavilion, Davos.
Minister for IT and Industries KT Rama Rao on Tuesday said the government was making all efforts to ensure that the IT industry expands to all the Tier II cities in the State soon.
Acknowledging the importance of blockchain technology in ushering transparency in transactions across sectors, Telangana State has set up Blockchain district, which will work on the protocols to be followed and also evolve new use cases for taking the technology to the masses: KTR
The state government has planned IT hubs at Nizamabad, Khammam, Karimnagar and Warangal by investing `25 crore on each to spur IT-based economy in districts: Minister KTR
Even as the Olympics of IT comes to India and Hyderabad for the first time, Telangana IT Minister KT Rama Rao showcased the various infrastructure solutions the government is creating to make Digital Telangana a reality.
The IT, E&C Department leverages Information Technology not just for effective and efficient governance, but also for sustainable economic development and inclusive social development. On the supply side, the Digital Telangana aims to ensure digital facilities become available to each and every person in the state. On the demand side, it aims to provide digital citizen services and make people digitally literate and empowered so that they can make best use of these services. Learn more about the gamut of initiatives under the broad umbrella of Digital Telangana.
