Amazon is gearing up to set up its second largest global delivery centre in Hyderabad outside US. The announcement came just one month after Apple made its declaration stating that technological giant will be opening its first ‘Technology Development Centre’ in the city of ‘Nizams’.
Seems like the city of Hyderabad has become a ‘Hot Bed’ for IT firms, in a recent development, Google had also announced to set up a mammoth campus in the city and similarly, Seattle-based online market firm also decided to install largest Indian fulfilment centre (warehouse) over an area of 2,80,000 sq ft near Hyderabad.
A senior government official of Telangana told the Economic Times, that the Seattle-based company had been allotted a 10-acre parcel of land for the proposed 2.9 million square-feet delivery center, designed to house 13,500 people. The current headcount at Amazon development centre in Hyderabad is about 1,000 across multiple offices.
Amazon is looking to spread its wings across India and to speed up its motive, the company has already rented a mammoth of 30,000 square feet space at BKC in Mumbai and another one on lease in Bangalore.
“The land for the facility (at Hyderabad) is currently under a long-lease with the Government of Telangana,” said Jayesh Ranjan, Telangana’s IT Secretary. A senior government official said Amazon would lay the foundation stone for the proposed global delivery centre on March 30, where its senior VP David Zapolksy and vice president John Morgan are likely to attend, reports ET.
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