Team One Architects Director Aditya B. Yamsanwar was quoted in Livemint's Budget 2026 Expectations live blog — making the case that for non-metro talent to become truly GCC-ready, the upcoming budget needed to move decisively from policy intent into on-the-ground execution.

What the Coverage Is About

Livemint's Budget 2026 Expectations live blog — published ahead of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's 1 February speech — brought together industry voices on what India needed from its annual financial statement. Aditya Yamsanwar contributed a focused, built-environment perspective on the GCC ecosystem: that the gap between India's ambitions for its Global Capability Centres and the actual urban infrastructure needed to support them was the critical variable Budget 2026 needed to address.

Yamsanwar's contribution set out two specific levers for that execution, drawn directly from the built environment:

From GCC Aspiration to GCC Infrastructure

India's GCC story is well established at the level of narrative — the country hosts over 1,700 GCCs, employs more than 1.9 million professionals across them, and is the preferred destination for global enterprises building capability centres outside their home markets. What is less settled is whether the physical infrastructure of India's cities — particularly beyond Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Pune — can absorb the next wave of that expansion.

The distinction Yamsanwar draws is precise: talent availability in non-metro cities is no longer the constraint. What holds back GCC dispersal is the absence of the surrounding urban fabric — the Grade-A office stock, the transit connectivity, the housing supply, and the service-sector density that make a location genuinely workable for a global enterprise. These are design and planning problems as much as they are policy problems, and they are the problems TOA works on directly — from GCC campus design to industrial corridor planning to high-performance corporate interiors built to ESG compliance standards.