{"id":1001053,"date":"2026-04-04T08:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001053"},"modified":"2026-04-04T09:46:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:16:55","slug":"small-cities-like-mangalore-bhopal-aurangabad-join-gcc-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/04\/small-cities-like-mangalore-bhopal-aurangabad-join-gcc-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Small cities like Mangalore, Bhopal, Aurangabad join GCC race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s global capability centres (GCCs) are expanding beyond traditional hubs and the first set of tier-II cities, such as Mangalore, Bhopal and Aurangabad, emerge as test beds for a new kind of tech hub, driven by cost, talent, and policy. <\/p>\n<p>While GCCs\u2019 move into smaller cities such as Coimbatore, Indore and Lucknow is well documented, more centres are coming up with many states pushing policies and building infrastructure to attract such centres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s global capability centres (GCCs) are expanding beyond traditional hubs and the first set of tier-II cities, such as Mangalore, Bhopal and Aurangabad, emerge as test beds for a new kind of tech hub, driven by cost, talent, and policy. While GCCs\u2019 move into smaller cities such as Coimbatore, Indore and Lucknow is well documented, more centres are coming up with many states pushing policies and building infrastructure to attract such centres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}