Invest UP, the nodal investment promotion agency of Uttar Pradesh, signed a memorandum of understanding with TeamLease Group on June 25, 2026, to build a skilled talent pipeline for Global Capability Centres (GCCs) being established in the state. The MoU was signed at the Uttar Pradesh Global Growth Dialogue 2026 in Bengaluru, in the presence of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
The agreement was executed by Vijay Kiran Anand, CEO of Invest UP, alongside Suparna Mitra, MD and Group CEO of TeamLease Services, and Neeti Sharma, CEO of TeamLease Digital. Dynamite News reported the partnership as a non-financial arrangement focused on skill development and talent creation to support GCC operations across the state.
The Bengaluru roadshow was part of Uttar Pradesh’s multi-city outreach campaign targeting the technology and GCC investment community. The state attracted over ₹50,000 crore in investment proposals at the event, with companies including LG, Aon, MetLife, and Table Space signing MoUs. TeamLease’s partnership stood apart from the financial commitments: it addresses the workforce side of the state’s GCC ambition rather than the capital side.
That ambition is significant. Uttar Pradesh’s GCC Policy 2024 targets 500 GCC units by 2031 and aims to generate more than two lakh jobs in the sector. The Noida-Jewar-Lucknow corridor is being positioned as the state’s primary GCC growth engine, with the government offering capital subsidies of up to ₹25 crore for advanced GCCs, 100% stamp duty exemptions, and operational subsidies covering lease, power, and cloud costs. A 70-acre AI City is under development in Lucknow, and Noida already hosts Samsung R&D and Adobe SAAS operations.
The talent gap, however, is the harder problem to solve. India’s GCC sector employed over 2.1 million professionals as of 2025 and added roughly 22,000 net jobs in May 2026 alone. Yet most of that hiring has remained concentrated in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Pune. Uttar Pradesh produces approximately 12.75 lakh graduates annually, but the state has struggled to convert that raw output into the specialised AI, cloud, and data engineering profiles GCCs actively hire for.
TeamLease Digital brings a direct track record here. GCCs already contribute over 60% of TeamLease Digital’s net revenue, according to CEO Neeti Sharma. The firm has placed more than 80,000 professionals since its 2018 formation and currently supports over 200 clients, including Fortune 500 companies, across the GCC, building and scaling engagements. Its specialisation in skills-first hiring for hard-to-fill GCC roles makes it a practical partner for the gap Invest UP is trying to close.
“The Noida-Jewar-Lucknow corridor will be UP’s new growth engine,” Uttar Pradesh Finance Minister Suresh Kumar Khanna said during the event. “More than 75,000 acres of land is available across different regions of Uttar Pradesh for industrial investment.“
The state government’s push to expand GCC activity beyond NCR to cities like Lucknow and Kanpur aligns with a broader India trend: TeamLease’s own hiring data shows tier-2 city tech hiring growing 18% year-on-year while Bengaluru and Pune remain flat.
The MoU positions TeamLease as an anchor talent partner as Uttar Pradesh makes its most coordinated push yet to compete with the south’s established GCC hubs. Whether the partnership translates into measurable placement pipelines for incoming GCCs will depend on how quickly both parties operationalise the terms on the ground.
