Rustam Minnikhanov visits the HITEC City in India

On April 16, during his working visit to India, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov visited a city of information technology and engineering - the HITEC City, located in Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states of India. The project envisages the development of high technology in such areas as engineering, informatics in healthcare, bioinformatics, etc.

The development of the HITEC City territory began with the opening of the Microsoft campus. Opened in 1990, today it is the company’s largest research centre outside the United States. The campus employs 5,000 professionals involved in the development of the Windows operating system, Microsoft Office, artificial intelligence.

Minnikhanov was told about the achievements of Microsoft's centre and was demonstrated their pilot projects.

Later the same day, Tatarstan President visited the T-Hub business incubator, which is a public-private partnership between the government of Telangana, universities and key private sector leaders. The T-Hub develops academic, corporate, research and government projects. Currently, there are 135 companies among its residents.

Also, Tatarstan President got acquainted with the activities of the Indian Business School (ISB), which provides management education. The ISB has joint educational programmes with such well-known universities as MIT, Harvard University and Columbia University. Currently, 650 students are studying there. The school offers one-year programmes.