GCC Market in 2026

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Pune’s Manufacturing DNA: A Proven Foundation

Pune has solidified its status as India’s manufacturing powerhouse, nurturing global giants in automotive components, industrial machinery, heavy engineering, and precision manufacturing—all feeding a robust ecosystem of specialized suppliers and R&D talent.

This industrial legacy delivers unmatched domain depth for GCC 2.0, where centers evolve from back-office ops to engineering innovation hubs demanding systems thinking and cross-functional mastery. Unlike IT-services-first cities, Pune’s manufacturing DNA natively equips GCCs to tackle complex ER&D challenges—think embedded systems, mechatronics, and Industry 4.0 twins—in record time.

Defence Corridor Policy 2026: Extending Manufacturing into Digital Engineering

Maharashtra’s 2026 Industrial Policy cements Pune’s starring role in the Pune-Ahilyanagar-Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Defence Corridor, positioning the city as the engineering, ER&D, and digital backbone for defence manufacturing and beyond.

For mid-market GCCs, this unlocks systems engineering talent, digital twins expertise, and seamless manufacturing-defence-digital synergies—elevating Pune for complex workloads across sectors, not just defence.

Under the Maharashtra Industrial Policy 2026, Pune GCCs benefits from:

• Wage-linked incentives that reduce early-stage operating costs
• Five-year power duty exemptions, particularly relevant for data, AI, and simulation-heavy workloads
• Accelerated depreciation on eligible CapEx, enabling faster financial optimization

For mid-market GCCs, these incentives improve predictability and shorten the path to breakeven.

Rather than positioning Pune as a defence-only hub, the policy effectively elevates Pune’s relevance for complex, engineering-intensive GCCs across industries.

CII Pune GCC Forum: Boosting GCC Ecosystem in India

CII’s newly launched Pune GCC Forum marks a pivotal step in empowering GCCs in India to the forefront of the nation’s industrial and digital transformation. Backed by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), this dedicated platform unites GCC leaders from over 35 organizations with government bodies for structured policy dialogue, fostering actionable strategies on talent, innovation, and ease-of-doing-business. Mid-market and maturing GCCs stand to gain the most, through peer knowledge sharing across maturity stages and amplified focus on challenges overlooked by large-enterprise forums. This institutional push positions Pune not merely as a cost-effective hub, but as a future-ready GCC ecosystem primed for high-value global operations, aligning with India’s 14% YoY GCC growth trajectory.

Why Pratiti Technologies Focuses on a BOT Model for Mid-Market GCCs

At Pratiti, our Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) model powers mid-market GCCs three ways:

• Build to Scale: Curated hiring for predictable growth. Seed engineering team ready in 3-4 weeks.
• Build to Disrupt: Speed + Differentiation. Shorter release cycles via transformed QA/DevOps.
• Build to Transform: Innovation + Modernization. Seamless absorption into your India entity.

Lower risk. Faster ROI. Full ownership.

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