HITEC City is a major technology township at the centre of
Information technology industry of Hyderabad which is an abbreviation of
Hyderabad Information Technology Engineering Consultancy City spread across 151
acres of land under the Suburbs of Madhapur and Gachibowli.
When India started witnessing IT revolution in Bangalore,
the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh released the need for infrastructure in
Hyderabad to attract investments of several IT companies. The project was
commissioned initially with L&T Infocity and after the success of this
project several other software companies started investing in HITEC City. HITEC
City is built in several phases such as Cyber Towers, Cyber Gateways, Mind
Space, The V Ascendas IT Park, Cyber Pearl and many more.
Phases of HITEC City
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Cyber Towers – Cyber Towers is the first phase
of HITEC City. The building of these towers is divided into 4 quadrants with a
fountain in the middle of the quadrants and with total 10 floors. Cyber towers
consists many software companies such as Keane, Microsoft, Patni Computer
Solutions, Oracle Corporation, GE capital and many more.
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Cyber Gateways – Cyber Gateways is the second
phase of the city which is having a huge arch in front of the tower is gateway to
both, that is to this tower as well as to the whole HITEC City and that is why this
phase is called as Cyber Gateways. Cyber Gateways is designed for BPO and ITES
companies. Many companies such as Dell Inc, General Electric, Capitol Records
and many are located here.
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The V, Ascendas IT Park – This phase of HITEC Cit
is spread over 20 acres of land and has five multi tenant buildings namely Mariner,
Auriga, Orion, Capella and Vega. About 10 acres of land of this phase is used
in environment friendly landscape gardens. The phase accommodates about 15000
IT professionals.
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Mind Space IT Park – This phase was envisioned
by Raheja group which identified the need for the world class environment and
ecosystem to foster great business ideas. Mind Space is spread over 110 acres
of land comprises several buildings and several companies such as Accenture,
Mahindra Satyam, IBM, Novartis, Computer Sciences Corporation, Bank of America
and many more.
There are many more phases are constructed in HITEC City
that contains many software companies as well as many other companies also.
HITEC City is about 10 to 11 km from the city center and 14
km from airport and local railway station is about 3 km because of which
transportation to HITEC City is very easy and the region is well connected to
all parts of the city. Buses run by APSRTC are well connected to this area and
you can find number of buses to reach here. Taxis and auto rikshaws are also
available.
Many business travelers used to visit this city and therefore
hotels is the prime need of this region and there are number of good hotels and
lodges are located that provides excellent facility to their customers. Hotels
in this region range from budget to five stars and you can find number of good
hotels in this region.