When KT Rama Rao, Sircilla?s MLA and the son of Telangana Rashtra Samithi K Chandrasekhar Rao became the Minister for Information Technology in 2014, he placed a lot of focus on making Telangana ? and more specifically Hyderabad ? a startup hub. Various initiatives such as an IT and startup policy, the establishment of startup engine T-Hub, Research and Innovation Circle of Hyderabad (RICH) and a state innovation cell helped put Telangana on the global startup map.