Telangana charts ‘Roadmap 2030’ for bio-digital growth
Telangana has set an ambitious target of attracting Rs 1 lakh crore in new investments in the Life Sciences sector by 2030, aiming to generate employment for five lakh people, said Minister for IT and Industries D Sridhar Babu.
Delivering the keynote address at the AusBiotech International Conference 2025 in Melbourne-- organised jointly by AusBiotech and the Government of Victoria --the minister said the state government has drawn up a comprehensive ‘Roadmap 2030’ to position Telangana as a Global Life Sciences Hub.
“Telangana is preparing a Comprehensive Life Sciences Policy to accelerate innovation, infrastructure and global partnerships,” Sridhar Babu said outlining the state’s strategy for the next phase of bio-digital growth.
The minister said Telangana continued to outperform national averages in economic growth. “Though the state ranks 11th in geographical area and 12th in population, it contributes over five per cent to India’s GDP. Telangana’s GSDP growth rate in 2024–25 stood at 8.2 per cent, compared with the national average of 7.6 per cent, he noted.
Citing a report by global consultancy CBRE, Sridhar Babu said Hyderabad has been featured in the Global Life Sciences Atlas 2025 among the world’s leading Life Sciences clusters — alongside Boston, San Francisco, Cambridge, Beijing, and Tokyo. Hyderabad is the only Indian city to feature in this list, he added. Life Sciences office leasing in the city expanded from 0.6 million sq. ft. in 2022 to 2.4 million sq. ft. in 2024, reflecting the sector’s rapid growth and investor confidence.
The minister said, “Telangana was investing heavily in building a “ready-to-deploy bio-digital workforce” to meet the needs of emerging technologies in biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and healthcare.
He noted that both the Life Sciences University and the Young India Skills University are initiatives of the Telangana Government, designed to create next-generation talent in advanced science and technology domains. In parallel, the State is also working with the World Economic Forum’s Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and other global institutions to align skill development and innovation ecosystems with the demands of the Bio-Digital era.
