{"id":10579,"date":"2026-07-05T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradebrains.in\/money\/?p=10579"},"modified":"2026-07-05T11:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T05:30:08","slug":"beyond-bengaluru-initiative-4-tier-2-cities-emerging-as-karnatakas-next-it-hubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradebrains.in\/money\/beyond-bengaluru-initiative-4-tier-2-cities-emerging-as-karnatakas-next-it-hubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Bengaluru Initiative: 4 Tier-2 Cities Emerging as Karnataka’s Next IT Hubs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Synopsis:<\/strong> Cost and congestion is a growing concern in Bengaluru, Karnataka is creating its next generation IT hubs through Beyond Bengaluru initiative. Through the Beyond Bengaluru mission, Karnataka is building innovation clusters across Tier-2 cities, ensuring opportunities of the digital age reach every location.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The ‘Beyond Bengaluru’ initiative started in 2020 led by Karnataka Digital Economy Mission (KDEM) the distributed growth of digital economy beyond the state capital. As the cost of living and traffic increase in Bengaluru, Karnataka is moving forward with its “Beyond Bengaluru” initiative to create new IT hubs. The cities such as Mysuru, Mangaluru, Hubballi-Dharwad & Belagavi and Tumakuru are becoming the most preferred hubs for the technology firms, GCCs, start-ups and real estate investments.<\/p>

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Why Karnataka is expanding beyond Bengaluru<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

While skyrocketing land costs, office rentals, and traffic congestion have made it increasingly expensive to expand there. To solve this, Karnataka has launched its \u20b9967 crore IT-BT Policy 2025-30<\/strong>, which will promote investments in Tier-2 cities with special incentives, speeding up project clearances and providing infrastructure support.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Beyond Bengaluru<\/strong>‘ is an initiative by the government of Karnataka to develop cities like Mysuru, Mangaluru, Hubballi-Dharwad, and Tumakuru<\/strong> as exporters of IT services with a target of US$10 billion by 2030<\/strong>. The programme had already onboarded 126 companies<\/strong>, secured 5,500+ direct jobs <\/strong>and enabled investments in sectors such as IT, emerging technologies, electronics and fintech and GCCs as of March 2025.\u00a0<\/p>