Information technology major HCL Technologies is looking to increase the workforce at its Lucknow facility by 50 per cent by the end of next financial year (2020-21).
To the current headcount of 4,000, the company plans to add 2,000 employees to cater for its business expansion roadmap.
HCL is the promoter of the Shiv Nadar University in Noida.
A HCL official said, “Our employees count is expected to hit 4,500 by the end of March 2020 from the current strength of 4,000 professionals. The Lucknow facility continues to grow fast and gain traction in the market.”
The employees count of the HCL Lucknow stood at nearly 3,300 in March 2019. HCL in 2013 had set up a 100-acre IT City in Lucknow, which is targeted to create job opportunities for about 25,000 people.
“We are currently serving 103 global clients from the Lucknow centre, of which nearly 70 per cent are based in the USA. More projects are in the pipeline,” the official added.
HCL Lucknow is the largest HCL campus in North India. It offers a spectrum of services, including infrastructure management, application development, product engineering, BPO and HCL internal enabling functions.
HCL Lucknow started its operations in October 2016 and it is part of HCL’s strategic vision to expand and create job opportunities in smaller cities across India.
The HCL has so far made investments to the tune of Rs 500 crore in Lucknow centre and more funds would be invested as and when required. Nearly 95 per cent of the employees in the Lucknow facility hail from Uttar Pradesh.
Besides, the company is also aiming at achieving gender diversity with almost 23 per cent of the current employees being women professionals.
The HCL official said when the company’s Lucknow facility was being developed, sceptics were rather apprehensive if the venture would succeed in a non-metro city like Lucknow, yet the state’s human capital had contributed to its continues progress.
HCL Lucknow comprises Arya Bhatt Training Centre to train and cross-train 500 individuals simultaneously. A second training centre with an additional capacity of training 500 people is also complete and expected to start functioning soon.
The Yogi Adityanath government in UP is also promoting the IT and new age sectors in the state, especially in the eastern and central regions, for balanced growth beyond the National Capital Region (NCR) hubs of Noida and Greater Noida.
