Focus sectors
Fifteen industries.
One ecosystem.
Telangana does not sell a single industry. It sells the overlap — the laboratories that serve pharma and defence alike, the talent that moves between chip design and drug discovery, the single window that clears them all.
- 15focus sectors
- 15 daysguaranteed clearance
- #3talent pool in India
- 500+global capability centres
Explore the ecosystem
It all converges here.
Pick a sector to see what it is built on, what is already here, and what the state has put behind it.
Life, land & energy
Life Sciences & MedTech
Hyderabad is the life sciences capital of India — around 40% of the country’s pharmaceutical production, and roughly a third of the world’s vaccine output.
- ~40%of India’s pharma production
- 269+USFDA-approved facilities
- 2,000+life sciences companies
What goes into it
What is already here
- Genome Valley
- 1Bio Biologics CoE
- AMR CoE
- Medical Devices Park
- Green Pharma City
- CSIR-IICT, CCMB, CDFD, NIN, DRILS
- NIPER, UoH and ISB
- 20 pharma incubators — most in India
Next-Gen Life Sciences Policy 2026–30. ₹80,000 crore committed in two years; stated target USD 250 billion and 500,000 jobs.
Technology & services
IT & Global Capability Centres
The sector that put Hyderabad on the global map, and the one most global firms enter the state through.
- 500+global capability centres
- #3talent pool in India
What goes into it
What is already here
- HITEC City and the Financial District
- Software Technology Parks and SEZs
- Export-oriented units
- T-Hub and T-Works next door
Industry & mobility
Aerospace & Defence
A defence cluster built around a dozen national laboratories, with a private supply chain that grew up beside it.
- 25+large companies
- 1,000+MSMEs in the supply chain
What goes into it
What is already here
- DRDO, DRDL, RCI and DMRL laboratories
- Bharat Dynamics; Ordnance Factory Medak
- Aerospace parks within or near the city
- Institutions training the trades
Technology & services
Electronics, ESDM & Data Centres
Around 6% of India’s electronics production, out of two dedicated clusters south of Hyderabad.
- 250+companies
- 50,000+people employed
- ₹76,410 crelectronics output (2019–20)
What goes into it
What is already here
- E-City, Raviryala — 602 acres
- Maheshwaram Electronics Park — 310 acres
- Nvidia, Qualcomm, AMD, Motorola, C-DAC
- BHEL, BEL, HBL and ECIL
- OPPO and OnePlus design centres
Electronics manufacturing contributed about 13% of the state’s industrial GVA in 2019–20.
Industry & mobility
Automobiles, Auto Components & EV
A vehicle industry with a long history here, re-tooling around electric mobility.
What goes into it
What is already here
- Mahindra, Hyundai and MRF
- Legacy of Hyderabad Allwyn and HMT
- EV charging tariffs rationalised
- Charging built with private operators
Technology & services
Emerging Technologies & AVGC
An Emerging Technologies Wing — the first of its kind in India — set up to work across eight technologies at once.
- 8technologies under one wing
- 4technology policy frameworks published
What goes into it
What is already here
- Policy frameworks published per technology
- Population-scale projects run with departments
- Partnerships with industry and academia
- Centres of excellence attached to each technology
The wing works to a stated “PPP” approach — policy frameworks, population-scale projects and partnerships.
Life, land & energy
Energy & Cleantech
Second in India for solar capacity per unit of land: 10.5% of the country’s solar capacity on 3.5% of its land.
- 20.41 GWassessed solar potential
- 4+ GWrenewable capacity installed
- #2solar capacity per unit land area
What goes into it
What is already here
- 3,621 MW of solar installed
- 4.2 GW of assessed wind potential
- 106 LEED-certified green building projects
- 100% FDI, automatic route
Capacity figures date from the source page (2020) and are due a refresh.
Life, land & energy
Textiles, Apparel & Technical Textiles
The third-largest cotton-growing state in India, with the loom base and spinning capacity to match.
- ~5 mnbales of cotton a year
- 50,000power looms
- ~1 mnspindles
What goes into it
What is already here
- Kakatiya Mega Textile Park, Warangal
- 17,000 handlooms still working
- A workforce long in the trade
Under T-TAP: capital subsidy up to 25% (capped at ₹20 crore) for conventional textiles and up to 35% (capped at ₹40 crore) for technical textiles, with interest subsidy up to 8%.
Life, land & energy
Food Processing
A quarter of the state’s agricultural output is processed here, on a raw material base that leads India in turmeric and sweet orange.
- ~25%of agri output processed
- #1in India for turmeric and sweet orange
What goes into it
What is already here
- 4 major food park projects (~₹492 crore)
- 7 integrated cold chain projects (~₹208 crore)
- 20 National Mission projects (~₹108 crore)
- Leader in poultry and seed
Industry & mobility
Logistics & Industrial Parks
India’s first integrated logistics park in PPP mode, and a policy aiming at a dozen more.
- 22 acresMangalapally — India’s first PPP logistics park
- 40 acresBatasingaram park, ₹50 crore
What goes into it
What is already here
- Mangalapally Logistics Park
- Batasingaram Logistics Park
- Air cargo via Hyderabad airport
- A policy target of 10–12 further parks
Industry & mobility
Heavy Engineering & Capital Goods
Heavy fabrication, machine tools and capital equipment, anchored by long-established public sector engineering.
What goes into it
What is already here
- BHEL Hyderabad and the supplier base around it
- TGIIC industrial parks
Detailed sector data for this industry is being refreshed before it is published again.
Industry & mobility
Light Engineering & Furniture
Small-batch precision engineering, fabrication and furniture manufacturing across the state’s MSME clusters.
What goes into it
What is already here
- MSME clusters across the districts
- TGIIC industrial parks and estates
Detailed sector data for this industry is being refreshed before it is published again.
Industry & mobility
Minerals & Chemicals
A mineral base of coal, limestone and granite feeding cement, chemicals and building materials.
What goes into it
What is already here
- The Singareni coal belt
- Limestone and granite reserves across the districts
Detailed sector data for this industry is being refreshed before it is published again.
Life, land & energy
Tourism & Hospitality
A heritage capital and a reservoir-and-forest hinterland, with hospitality investment following the business traveller.
What goes into it
What is already here
- Charminar, Golconda and the Qutb Shahi tombs
- Ramoji Film City
- Reservoir and forest circuits across the state
Detailed sector data for this industry is being refreshed before it is published again.
Technology & services
Education & Research
A dense concentration of national research laboratories and institutes of national importance.
What goes into it
What is already here
- UoH, IIT Hyderabad, ISB, NALSAR, NIPER
- CSIR-IICT, CCMB, CDFD and NIN
- TASK skilling programmes
Detailed sector data for this industry is being refreshed before it is published again.
The common ground
What every one of them draws on.
The reason the sectors above are worth reading together: they are built on the same foundations, and an investor in any of them meets the same machinery.
TG-iPASS
A statutory 15-day clearance. Miss the deadline and approval is deemed granted — the only law of its kind in India.
Land
India’s largest land bank, serviced and allotted through a single window rather than assembled parcel by parcel.
Power
Surplus generation and round-the-clock industrial supply, with tariffs rationalised for new categories such as EV charging.
Talent
The third-largest talent pool in India, and universities and national laboratories that feed several sectors at once.
Connectivity
An award-winning international airport, the Outer Ring Road, and industrial corridors running to every coast.
Which of these is your sector?
Tell the FDI desk what you are planning. A named officer comes back to you — not a queue.
