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Andhra Pradesh Tourism
TOP TOURIST SPOTS
HITECH CITY
The nascent structures coming up in
Madhapur area of the 400-year-old Hyderabad city provide
a sophisticated contrast to the great and ancient monuments and palaces in the Qutb
Shahi capital. It is a consummation of the vision of an information technology crusader
unfolding itself in a healthy hurry, comparable to the architectural dreams of Muhammad
Quli Qutb Shah. The structures are a two-phase tribute to a technology that has
reduced the world to a global village.
The business like ambience of the HITECH
city is in juxtaposition to its equally famous and graceful neighbour Shilparamam,
an arts and crafts village, manifesting the simultaneity of two disparate periods
in history, and contributing to the variety and contradictions in Indian life and
tradition. Both the HITECH city and
Silparamam are an evidence of chief minister Chandrababu Naidu's skills
in reconciling his respect for the old with his desire to inscribe Andhra Pradesh
firmly on the roll of achievers and performers.
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The axis of the HITECH city is an artistically
and yet functionally built 10-storeyed cylindrical building surrounded by a galaxy
of imposing structures raised to house IT companies, foreign and Indian. It is a
city planned as an integrated township with all infrastructural facilities like
office space, production areas housing colonies, showrooms, cafeteria, health club,
banks, shopping complexes and auditoriums. One look at the township will explain
why 25% of computer personnel in the United States are from Hyderabad.
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The HITECH city has already attracted
multinational software giants like Microsoft, IBM, Metamor,
GE Capital,
Toshiba,
and Oracle
and Indian companies like Satyam Computers and
Wipro.
An earth station has come up in the township which links Hyderabad to the five continents
of the world. It is planned to permit further growth and expansion with the 160
acres of land allotted by the government. The cylindrical showpiece known as Cyber
Towers offers five lakh square feet of executive space. |
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A companion structure known as Cyber
Gateway is nearly complete with 8.5 lakh square feet of built up space. The main
features of the city are its land and hillscapes, wide roads, satellite earth station,
fast internet access, ATM facility, VSAT and ISDN connectivity, videoconferencing
and multimedia systems, power back-up, dust-free atmosphere and medicare. What makes
the HITECH city different from other technology parks in the country are the International
Institute of Information Technology and the Indian Business School, designed to be motors of leadership
in their areas.
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The Indian Business School is affiliated
to Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, the Kellogg School of Management at
Northwestern University and the London Business School. IBS shares expertise and resources
with these schools, besides participating in exchange of students and professors.
Wharton and Kellogg schools have inducted the latest global management techniques
and perceptions into IBS's academic programmes. Faculty members from these institutions
now teach at the IBS after designing the school curriculum. Academic, residential
and recreational infrastructures provided for students here match those found at
the best business schools in the world. The campus structures are a blend of modern
and traditional Indian architectures.
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State-of-the-art air-conditioned amphitheatres,
library, meeting rooms, coffee bars and restaurants mark facilities available at
the school. These are in addition to wired classroom conferencing, and hispeed data
communication networks. Services such as banking, ATM, infirmary, ISB shop, bookstore,
documentation centre etc. are available. The school was inaugurated by Prime Minister
Atal Behari Vajpayee on 2 December 2001, praising it in these words: "The speedy
journey of ISB from concept to completion was itself a case study of the world class
management capabilities of the new generation of Indians who have promoted it." |
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In its fourth year now, the International
Institute of Information Technology has a campus of 62 acres, housing such internationally
known corporate schools like IBM School of Enterprise-Wide Computing, Signal Tree
School of Excellence in Software Development Methodologies, Oracle School of Advanced
Software Technology, Satyam School of Applied Information Systems and Motorola School
of Communication Technology. A major aim of the institute is to provide a uniquely
broad and interdisciplinary IT education of the highest academic quality.
State-of-the-art air-conditioned amphitheatres,
library, meeting rooms, coffee bars and restaurants mark facilities available at
the school. These are in addition to wired classroom conferencing, and hispeed data
communication networks. Services such as banking, ATM, infirmary, ISB shop, bookstore,
documentation centre etc. are available. The school was inaugurated by Prime Minister
Atal Behari Vajpayee on 2 December 2001, praising it in these words: "The speedy
journey of ISB from concept to completion was itself a case study of the world class
management capabilities of the new generation of Indians who have promoted it."
In its fourth year now, the International
Institute of Information Technology has a campus of 62 acres, housing such internationally
known corporate schools like IBM School of Enterprise-Wide Computing, Signal Tree
School of Excellence in Software Development Methodologies, Oracle School of Advanced
Software Technology, Satyam School of Applied Information Systems and Motorola School
of Communication Technology. A major aim of the institute is to provide a uniquely
broad and interdisciplinary IT education of the highest academic quality.
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CITY BUSES |
9J, 10H, 47K, 47S |
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