page_title: N. Chandrababu Naidu
section_title: HITEC City
hierarchical_section_title: N. Chandrababu Naidu / Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh / Role in development of Hyderabad / HITEC City
caption_attribution_description: Panoramic shot of cyber towers building in Hyderabad at evening.
context_page_description: Nara Chandrababu Naidu is an Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and current leader of opposition in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He is a former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, serving from 2014 to 2019. He was the first Chief Minister of the state after it was divided. Previously, he served as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh from 1995 to 2004, before the state's division, and as the leader of the opposition in the United Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly from 2004 to 2014. He is the National President of the Telugu Desam Party, and the longest-serving Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.
  Naidu has won a number of awards, including IT Indian of the Millennium from India Today, Business Person of the Year by The Economic Times, South Asian of the Year from Time Asia and membership in the World Economic Forum's Dream Cabinet. Naidu chaired the National IT Panel under the National Democratic Alliance government and was described as one of the "hidden seven" working wonders of the world by Profit. Naidu was offered an honorary professorship by US business school - the Kellogg School of Management in 2000.
context_section_description: In November 1998, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, then prime minister of India and Chandrababu Naidu inaugurated the HITEC City (nickanamed Cyberabad) by opening the Cyber Towers, a landmark building in Hyderabad. In anticipation of the growth of technology in the future, his government also concentrated on providing infrastructure such as roads, safety and resilience, transportation, telecommunications, IT parks and five-star hotels for the delegates meetings and accommodation and the HITEX International Convention and Exhibition Center.
  Naidu once coined the slogan "Bye-bye Bangalore, hello Hyderabad" to further this aim and his government allotted lands and laid the foundations for major IT parks like L&T Infocity Ascendas Park, Cyber Gateway, Raheja Mindspace Madhapur IT Park, and CyberPearl IT Park to partake in the IT industry boom. Naidu, at a press conference, discussed his plan to develop the state of Andhra Pradesh by making the major cities showpieces for foreign investment, especially in "key sectors such as information technology, biotechnology, healthcare, and various outsourcing services" and gave a brief PowerPoint presentation to Bill Gates that convinced him to establish Microsoft Corporation Research and Development (R&D) in Hyderabad, the company's second-largest research and development campuses of Microsoft outside the United States, which leads to a significant milestone for Hyderabad a turning point to recognize as the next information technology hub. 
  In 2001, the Naidu government declared the creation of the Cyberabad Development Authority (CDA) as a special enclave for the location of IT firms; research institutions and allied services around the existing HITEC City area in Hyderabad. Spread over an area of 52 km2, in the western periphery of the city covering the townships of Madhapur, Gachibowli, Kondapur, Manikonda, and Nanakramguda, CDA CDA was conceived as a self-contained enclave providing premium infrastructure, such as gated residential housing, intelligent buildings, shopping malls, and transport facilities among others. 
  
  According to several national and international survey, reports has mentioned that Hyderabad became an IT Hotspot of India in 2002 and Hyderabad became ranked number one in the city competitiveness compared of major cities in India to attract businesses. The economic reforms and new policy initiatives taken by the Naidu government in creating HITEC City provided a boost to Hyderabad's urbanisation and with big tech industry jobs in hand has increased consumer purchasing power that leads to spawned massive developments of real estate gated residential apartments, food and restaurants, intelligent business offices, cinema, and shopping malls around the city area and Naidu efforts instrumented HITEC City as India's first and largest cybercity while today Cyberabad is one of the biggest technological revolutions of Hyderabad which emerged as the backbone of Telangana state's economy.
caption: Cyber Towers at HITEC City, a landmark building in Hyderabad was inaugurated during Naidu's tenure in 1998
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