Friday, 24 June 2016

Business in Hyderabad



Hyderabad is the location of one the premier business Institutes in the country, the business school which was the first of its kind in the country when it first opened a little more than a decade ago leapfrogged ahead and was immediately ranked among the best in the country.
Whereas most schools took time, sometimes took years, to reach such a hallowed rank this new business school seemed to accomplish this just by the virtue of its creation.

The reason for the creation of such a school was felt because it was believed it would allow Indian students the opportunity to learn from faculty who were among the best in the world, not just the best in India and the chosen location for the school was Gachibowli in Hyderabad. The city was doing everything right, led by the charismatic chief minister of the state then known as Andhra Pradesh.

The momentum was with Hyderabad it was the startup whereas Bangalore was the entrenched market leader. Hyderabad was nimble and adaptive and many in the city expected it to leave Bangalore in the dust or to at least catch up quickly.

Though this has yet to happen and may never happen it still hasn’t stopped the property in Hyderabad to be priced higher than it was years ago and may not prevent it from being priced higher yet again within a few more years.  Hyderabad arguably has the best standard of living of any city in the country and has a mix of the traditional which itself sprung from more than 1 distinct identity and the ultramodern which is an amalgamation of the best and latest trends from all across the globe. A city with these characteristics would be difficult to find anywhere outside India.

So how has this mixture of the best of east and west shaped Hyderabad? For one it has led thousands to seek work at the various hi tech companies which have located their offices to Hyderabad, this in turn has led to greater demand for real estate in Hyderabad as highly educated professionals seek a standard of living they feel they deserve after they have worked hard for so many years. This in turn has led to better schools in the city to educate the children of these IT professionals who now coach their children not necessarily to get into the best engineering college in the country but to go abroad and get into the best in the world.

The cascading effect of the ITES industry upon the citizens of Hyderabad cannot be counted with ease; however, the city generates huge amounts of valued foreign currency which is used by the government in areas distinct from the IT industry. 

Over time if there is one certainty, it most assuredly is that the city of Hyderabad will continue to grow as will its already large IT sector which will attract minds from all across the globe to work at Hyderabad and further fuel the growth of real estate in Hyderabad for years or decades to come.