Hyderabad/West
business district in Hyderabad
West Hyderabad, according to the Municipal Corporation's definition, covers the areas of Gachibowli, Serilingampally, Patancheruvu, Moosapet and Kukatpally. This is one of the newer areas of Hyderabad, having developed along with the IT Industry in the late 1990s. Its core is Serilingampally, which encompasses Hi tec city, Madhapur and Kondapur, where the first of the software companies set up their offices. Gachibowli, to the south, is home to the larger campuses of software companies as well as educational institutions. A part of Gachibowli and neighbouring Nanakramguda is also called Financial District, a misnomer that reflects the government's unsuccessful attempt to attract banking and financial sector companies. The area primarily houses software companies, just like the rest of West Hyderabad.
The northern part, in contrast, will seem like a vast undifferentiated residential neighbourhood containing apartments where the employees of software companies stay
Another term that is used to refer to the area is Cyberabad. Colloquially, it is used to refer to refer to Hyderabad to bolster its claim as the IT capital of India. Officially, the Police Commissionerate with jurisdiction over this area (and then some) is called the Cyberabad Commissionerate.
