KTR meets Satya Nadella, talks \'business and biryani\'

HYDERABAD: IT minister K.T. Rama Rao met Microsoft executive chairman and CEO Satya Nadella here on Friday. After the meeting, he posted a couple of pictures of the two and said on Twitter: "Good start to the day when two Hyderabadis get to catch up @satyanadella. We chatted about Business & Biryani (sic)".

This is for the second time that Rama Rao has met Nadella after he became Microsoft CEO in 2014, the first being in May 2015 when the minister was on a two-week tour of the United States.

Rama Rao and his office did not provide details on the Friday’s meeting Official sources, however, said that Rama Rao had briefed the Microsoft CEO on the growth of the IT sector in Telangana in the last eight years and how Hyderabad had surpassed Bengaluru in creation of IT jobs during 2021-22.

He explained the initiatives of the state government such as building IT Towers in districts with an aim to take the IT sector to tier-II and tier-III cities and provide employment to local youth. Rama Rao is also learnt to have briefed Nadella about the success of T-Hub and the inauguration of T-Hub 2.0 in Raidurg last June to promote start-ups.

It is the world's largest innovation campus with a built-up area of nearly six lakh sq.ft. It has dedicated spaces for entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, accelerators, corporates and other innovation ecosystem partners.