Amazon had already signed the dotted line to set up its campus in Bengaluru. But in the backdrop of tax troubles in Karnataka, Telangana officials promised a conducive regulatory environment to Amazon, wooing the company to the state. Of course, they also presented Hyderabad as an attractive and cheaper alternative destination to Bengaluru whose infrastructure was already bursting at its seams. Apart from the office space, Amazon also set up its then biggest Indian warehouse spread across , sq.
Flipkart soon followed, opening its biggest warehouse, spanning , sq. That was also how they wooed back Google, which had decided to set up its campus near Bengaluru. Google had initially planned to set up its campus in Hyderabad—the company was even allotted land in Hyderabad way back in —but reconsidered its plan after the land it was allocated ran into legal issues. The Telangana government moved in quickly at this point by allocating site from its land bank and issuing quick clearances to Google.
At the same time, the government is attractively packaging the state as a destination for new-age technology companies.
While governments across the world are grappling with disruption to their traditional industries by taxi aggregators and home lodging sites such as Airbnb, the Telangana government is assuring start-ups of rolling in conducive regulatory policies to ensure their business model can operate in the state. KTR was quick to figure out the dynamics playing out in the global IT sphere.
Even traditionally closeted companies such as Microsoft were embracing innovation and start-ups in a way never seen before, and the year-old minister knew he needed to pitch the city as an innovation hub to make companies take Telangana seriously. Sure, it may have had issues like any other. Cutting it up, making many parts of India vulnerable and legitimising prejudice hardly seems like a smart solution.
The intent has to be rational and the process objective and peaceful. The reason for making states should be administrative and not indulging prejudice. It may be, rather, a new state of mind. A modern, unprejudiced, thinking Indian mind.
Can we add that to the list of new state demands please? Can Mamata go national? Successful coalitions at the Centre have been usually headed by leaders with weak power bases.
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