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Pune absorbed 5.8 million square feet of Grade A office space across its IT corridors in 2024. That figure represents a 30% increase from the prior year and, by most conventional measures, signals an industry in aggressive growth mode....
Kolkata's New Town district has over three million square feet of ready-to-occupy IT park space sitting empty. Vacancy rates in non-premium stock run between 25% and 35%. A further 4.5 million square feet is under construction, with 3.2...
Pune produced over 1.5 billion vaccine doses in 2025 through a single facility. The city hosts more than 150 US FDA-approved manufacturing plants, the densest concentration of any Indian city. Capital investment in biologics and vaccine...
Pune's automotive cluster entered 2026 with a paradox that no amount of capital investment can resolve on its own. The Chakan industrial corridor, home to over 750 automotive component manufacturers and anchor OEMs including Tata Motors,...
Mumbai's media and entertainment sector grew to $28.6 billion in 2024. Studio occupancy rates in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region hit 96%. Theatrical film production in Maharashtra recovered to 180 to 200 Hindi feature films, up from 140 the...
Mumbai's IT and ITES sector employs approximately 1.35 million professionals across the metropolitan region. By every aggregate measure, this is one of the deepest technology talent pools in Asia. Maharashtra's IT exports reached ₹1.62...
Ahmedabad's textile mills are running at roughly two-thirds capacity. Water rationing, tightening environmental mandates, and softening export orders have left legacy spinning and weaving units constrained. From the outside, this looks...
Gujarat's pharmaceutical cluster produces a third of India's drug output. That statistic has attracted billions in committed investment, dozens of approved PLI scheme manufacturing projects, and a 35% capacity expansion target for the...
Ahmedabad's chemicals, FMCG, and home-care manufacturing sector employs an estimated 230,000 workers across direct production and ancillary operations. Investment is flowing in. Automation capital expenditure across the sector was...
Bengaluru's startup ecosystem generated $3.2 billion in venture deployment across 180+ deals in the twelve months through late 2024, and the city still accounts for roughly 40 per cent of India's total startup funding velocity. By every...
Bengaluru contributed roughly $50 billion to India's IT exports through 2024, representing 40 per cent of the nation's total volume. The city hosts over 2.1 million direct IT employees. Its Outer Ring Road corridor absorbed more Grade A...
Bengaluru generates roughly 30% of India's biotechnology revenue and employs a quarter of the country's dedicated biotech R&D workforce. It is home to India's largest biopharmaceutical employer, India's largest contract research...
Chennai's IT sector now employs close to half a million professionals. The city added an estimated 55,000 to 65,000 net new technology jobs through 2025 and into 2026, GCC expansions from U.S. banking and automotive firms continue to...
Chennai's automotive cluster produced roughly 1.8 million vehicles in 2024 and is on track to reach 2.1 million in annual capacity by late 2026. The physical infrastructure is expanding. Tata Motors has reactivated the former Ford plant in...
Chennai's private healthcare sector generated ₹28,000 crore ($3.35 billion) in FY2024, an 18% year-on-year increase driven by elective procedure backlogs and a medical tourism market that now channels 45% of all international patients...
Delhi's wholesale sector processed more volume in 2025 than at any point in the city's trading history. Khari Baoli still handles roughly 70% of India's spice wholesale trade by volume, with supply chains stretching into the Middle East...
Delhi NCR's furniture and light manufacturing sector generated an estimated ₹4,500 to ₹5,000 crore in annual turnover through Kirti Nagar alone as recently as last year. That figure obscures a deeper fracture. The sector no longer operates...
Delhi NCR posted 180,000 new IT job openings in 2024. Aggregate tech employment across the region grew 8.3% in the same year, according to NASSCOM's Strategic Review. The headlines suggest a market with momentum, capacity, and depth. They...
Telugu cinema released 215 theatrical titles in 2024, the highest count of any Indian language industry. Studio occupancy at Ramoji Film City and Annapurna Studios exceeded 95% during the festival production window. OTT platforms committed...
Hyderabad manufactured 4.2 billion vaccine doses in 2024. Its Genome Valley cluster now contains 15 USFDA-approved facilities, the highest concentration in India. Sai Life Sciences added 800 specialised roles in a single year. Aragen...
Hyderabad's IT sector crossed 800,000 direct employees in 2024 and added 52,000 net new jobs in a single fiscal year. Over 85 Global Capability Centers now operate across HITEC City, Gachibowli, and the Financial District corridor. Amazon...
Kolkata's New Town district has over three million square feet of ready-to-occupy IT park space sitting empty. Vacancy rates in non-premium stock run between 25% and 35%. A further 4.5 million square feet is under construction, with 3.2...
India's only major riverine port system processed nearly 64 million tonnes of cargo in FY2023-24, a 5.12% year-on-year increase. The Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port Authority posted an operating surplus of ₹1,847 crore in the same period. Job...
Kolkata's three legacy manufacturing sectors lost more than 40,000 traditional jobs in the jute belt alone between 2016 and 2025. Tangra's artisanal leather workforce contracted by 60% after environmental closures. Light engineering MSMEs...
Mumbai's media and entertainment sector grew to $28.6 billion in 2024. Studio occupancy rates in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region hit 96%. Theatrical film production in Maharashtra recovered to 180 to 200 Hindi feature films, up from 140 the...
Mumbai's IT and ITES sector employs approximately 1.35 million professionals across the metropolitan region. By every aggregate measure, this is one of the deepest technology talent pools in Asia. Maharashtra's IT exports reached ₹1.62...
Mumbai processes roughly 85% of India's equity market turnover and commands 42% of the nation's mutual fund assets under management. Eight of India's twelve systemically important banks are headquartered in the metropolitan region,...
Pune absorbed 5.8 million square feet of Grade A office space across its IT corridors in 2024. That figure represents a 30% increase from the prior year and, by most conventional measures, signals an industry in aggressive growth mode....
Pune produced over 1.5 billion vaccine doses in 2025 through a single facility. The city hosts more than 150 US FDA-approved manufacturing plants, the densest concentration of any Indian city. Capital investment in biologics and vaccine...
Pune's automotive cluster entered 2026 with a paradox that no amount of capital investment can resolve on its own. The Chakan industrial corridor, home to over 750 automotive component manufacturers and anchor OEMs including Tata Motors,...
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