Though Nagpur has much to offer in terms of manpower, infrastructure and other facilities, the city isn’t usually found on India’s IT map. But several entrepreneurs have been making innovative use of the city’s biggest advantage cheap, but highly skilled manpower. Stanley Glance explains what Maharashtra’s second capital has to offer India IT Inc. Nagpur is Maharashtra’s second capital, India’s second greenest city and an orange lover’s paradise. But beyond tourism brochures, Nagpur has close to 40 educational institutes in the vicinity, a technically skilled workforce that is available at relatively lower salaries, and the city also features an international airport in the making. With such credentials one would have thought India’s burgeoning IT and ITeS industries would have jumped at the opportunity with eyes closed. On the contrary, the city rarely even gets mentioned in India’s IT circles.

Human existence around present day Nagpur city(in Maharashtra, India) can be traced back 3000 years to 8th century BC. Menhir burial sites at Drugdhamna (near Mhada colony) indicate megalithic culture existed around Nagpur and is still followed in present times. The first reference to the name Nagpur is found in a 10th century copper-plate inscription discovered at Devali in the neighbouring Wardha district.