Deccan Park

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Deccan Park is the single largest Global Development Center (GDC) commissioned in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.^{[citation needed]} The facility is designed by world-renowned Swiss architect Mario Botta. Deccan Park has been set up with an estimated investment of Rs 150 crore with recreation and sporting facilities, which will house 2,200 professionals. The centre has been set up in 11 acres of land, with a built-up area around 320,000 sq ft (9 floors). The GDC will be the centre of excellence in domain areas such as telecom, e-governance, biological sciences, ports and shipping and also deploy cutting-edge technologies including .Net, open source billing and bioinformatics.

The Deccan Park was inaugurated by Pascal Couchpin, President of Swiss Confederation, in the presence of N. Chandrababu Naidu, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Arun Shourie, Minister for Divestment and IT and Communications, and IT, Ratan Tata, Chairman of Tata Sons.