Indian IT industry is moving to new cities from 7 major hubs, claims report

India's technology industry is reportedly decentralising. According to a recent report by Deloitte and Nasscom, the country's IT sector is moving from the current seven major hubs Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Pune.

Presently, the majority of the 5.4 million people employed in the technology industry in India have clustered around these seven major cities, the report stated.

Nasscom Head GCC and BPM Sukanya Roy said that as companies worldwide continue to actively revisit ways of working with an eye on optimising outcomes, costs, and talent, the opportunity and possibility to develop alternative tech hubs are now becoming extremely essential.

The report claims that IT companies are moving to 26 tier-2 and tier-3 cities across India. These cities include Chandigarh, Nagpur, , Ahmedabad, Mangaluru, Kanpur, Thiruvananthapuram, Lucknow, Guwahati, Ranchi, Bhopal, Jaipur, Indore, Nashik, Bhubaneshwar, Raipur, Nashik, Nagpur, Warangal, Visakhapatnam, Hubbali, Vijayawada, Tirupati, Mysuru, Coimbatore, Vellore, Madurai, Tiruchirappalli, Kochi and Vellore.