Exhibit 12.1



Sify Technologies Limited

Certification of Principal
Executive Officer

Pursuant to Section
302 of

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act
of 2002



I, Raju Vegesna, certify that:



1.   I have reviewed
this annual report on Form 20-F of Sify Technologies Limited.



2.   Based on
my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to
make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the
period covered by this report;



3.   Based on
my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material
respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the Company as of, and for, the periods presented in
this report;



4.   The Company’s
other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined
in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f)
and 15d-15(f) for the Company and have:



| | a) | Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures
to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the Company, including its consolidated subsidiaries,
is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;
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| | b) | Designed such internal controls over financial reporting, or caused such internal controls over
financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial
reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;
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| | c) | Evaluated the effectiveness of the Company’s disclosure
controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosures controls and procedures,
as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and
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| | d) | Disclosed in this report any change in the Company’s
internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the period covered by the annual report that has materially affected,
or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting; and
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5.   The Company’s
other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting,
to the Company’s auditors and the audit committee of the Company’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent
functions):



| | a) | All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control
over financial reporting, which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the Company’s ability to record, process, summarize
and report financial information; and
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| | b) | Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant
role in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
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|Date: June 22, 2016 | /s/ Raju Vegesna              
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|                    | Name: Raju Vegesna            
|                    | Title: CEO & Managing Director