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Guides to entry routes, entity structures, incentives and the major centre cities. Every factual claim carries the source it came from and the date it was true.
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India entry primer: the decisions in the order they constrain each other
What has to be decided before a capability centre in India can open, in dependency order, with each step marked as required by law, usual practice or a judgement call.
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The first ninety days: what actually breaks
An operating guide for the period after the Indian entity exists and the first hires are made: the statutory clocks that start at incorporation or at a headcount threshold, and the non-legal things that most often go wrong.
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Why India: what the published figures say about building a capability centre here
The case for India as a location for a Global Capability Centre, stated only where a published source supports it: the existing GCC base, the technology workforce and graduate pipeline, office supply, the national time reference and policy. Every figure carries its source and the date it was true.
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Entity and structure
Entity structures for an India capability centre
The five structures used to hold an India centre, what each commits you to, and the shared questions of directors, foreign investment, transfer pricing, permanent establishment and repatriation.
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Laws and regulation for a capability centre in India: the rules, their sources and their status
The laws and regulations that most often bear on a foreign company's capability centre in India: incorporation, foreign investment and FEMA reporting, transfer pricing and permanent establishment, the labour codes, the DPDP Act, SEZ, STPI and GIFT IFSC, and GST on exported services. Each rule is stated with its source and date, with its status where it is changing.
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Setting up in GIFT City: what the GIC route actually requires
What the IFSCA Global In-House Centre regulations require of a group that wants a captive centre in GIFT IFSC: who qualifies, what the centre may do and for whom, how registration and fees work, and how the tax position is stated in law. Plain about who the route is not for.
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Policy and incentives
State incentives for capability centres: what is policy, what is announced, what is neither
Which Indian states have a published GCC or IT policy, what each document actually offers and to whom, and which items are still only announcements. Read this before you build a business case on a headline subsidy.
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City guides
Bengaluru: the location brief
What the Karnataka government says about GCCs in Bengaluru, what its 2024-2029 policy contains, and what published reports say about talent, offices, transport and shift-work rules. Sourced, not ranked.
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Hyderabad: the location brief
What the Telangana government says about GCCs in Hyderabad, which of its statements are notified policy and which are announcements, and what published reports say about talent, offices, transport and shift-work rules. Sourced, not ranked.
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Pune: the location brief
What published sources say about Pune as a location for a capability centre: state policy, talent base, office submarkets, mobility and the operating rules. Every figure is attributed and nothing is ranked.
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