Maharashtra targets 400 GCCs, 400,000 jobs
MAHARASHTRA, INDIA — Maharashtra has approved a new global capability center (GCC) policy targeting 400 new GCCs, ₹50,000 crore (approximately US$5.9 billion) in investment, and 400,000 high-skilled jobs, with Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis backing a geographic expansion of the sector beyond its existing concentration in Mumbai and Pune.
Policy spreads GCC growth from Mumbai and Pune to Nashik, Nagpur, and beyond
Maharashtra’s GCC policy establishes a single-window facilitation mechanism and faster approval processes designed to reduce the lead time for global enterprises setting up new capability centers in the state.
The policy targets six cities for GCC development: Mumbai and Pune as anchor markets, and Nashik, Nagpur, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, and other emerging cities as secondary hubs, with business process outsourcing (BPO) functions, engineering, and artificial intelligence (AI) work identified as the primary capability targets for each tier.
Pune became India’s second-largest GCC office market in 2025, according to Fadnavis, and the policy is designed to build on that momentum while channeling future capacity into cities with available talent and infrastructure.
“We want Maharashtra to become India’s leading and most preferred destination for GCCs,” said Devendra Fadnavis, Chief Minister, Maharashtra.
GCCs to take on AI, engineering, and R&D beyond traditional back-office roles
Maharashtra’s policy signals a deliberate push to attract GCCs focused on higher-value functions rather than the transactional and administrative roles that defined the first generation of offshore capability centers in India.
The government, industry, and education sector are expected to collaborate under the policy framework to develop skills pipelines aligned with GCC demand across AI, cybersecurity, financial services, and data analytics.
The ₹50,000 crore investment target comes alongside no stated completion date in policy documents, with the state positioning the framework as a long-term structural commitment rather than a fixed-term program.
Fadnavis added, “GCCs will no longer be limited to office support functions. They will increasingly become centres for engineering, artificial intelligence, product development, cybersecurity, financial services, data analytics and research and development.”
For buyers of outsourcing services evaluating India as a delivery location, Maharashtra’s GCC policy positions the state as a direct competitor to Karnataka and Telangana for global enterprise investment.
The push into tier-2 cities mirrors the Philippines’ experience of moving BPO delivery from a Metro Manila-centric model to a nationally distributed network, a transition that expanded both talent access and cost efficiency for buyers.
Pune’s emergence as India’s second-largest GCC market, combined with the policy’s incentives and new-city pipeline, gives Maharashtra a credible near-term case for enterprise sourcing decisions currently weighted toward Bengaluru and Hyderabad.
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