Businessworld Features TOA Director Mr. Aditya B. Yamsanwar
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Businessworld Features TOA Director Aditya Yamsanwar on GCC Urban Infrastructure and Budget FY27
Read on BusinessworldBusinessworld's deep-dive on India's GCC policy expectations for Budget FY27 includes Team One Architects Director Aditya B. Yamsanwar — contributing the built environment and urban development perspective on what it genuinely takes to make non-metro India GCC-ready.
What the Coverage Is About
The Businessworld article — published ahead of Union Budget 2026-27 — brings together GCC industry leaders, tax advisors, and policy experts to map out what India's Global Capability Centre ecosystem needs from the budget: a national policy framework, concessional tax regimes, clarity on secondment arrangements, and targeted infrastructure investment to take GCC growth beyond the established Tier-1 cities.
The piece features Deloitte, Nasscom, ANSR, Incuspaze and Bhartiya Converge alongside TOA — with contributions covering tax incentives, transfer pricing reforms, GST clarity, and talent mobility. Aditya Yamsanwar provides the real estate and urban development lens, closing the article's section on long-term GCC investment signals.
To make non-metro talent truly GCC-ready, Budget 2026 must pivot from intent to execution by enabling urban-scale development — planned business districts, ESG-compliant Grade-A offices, mobility, housing and ecosystem anchors that create employment density.
Aditya B. Yamsanwar — Director, Team One Architects · As quoted in BusinessworldThe framing Yamsanwar offers is precise and distinct from the tax and regulatory arguments made by others in the piece: the bottleneck for GCC dispersal beyond metros is not policy intent — it is the absence of the physical urban infrastructure that global enterprises require. ESG-compliant Grade-A office stock, planned business districts, housing density, and mobility connectivity are design and planning deliverables. Budget FY27's role is to fund and unblock them.
The Built Environment Dimension of India's GCC Story
India's GCC count has crossed 1,800, employing over two million professionals — more than half of all such centres worldwide. The next phase of that expansion depends on whether emerging cities can offer not just talent, but the quality of work environment that global enterprises expect. That is where architecture and workplace design enter the equation directly.
The shift from cost-centre to innovation hub — the transition the entire GCC industry is seeking to accelerate — requires a built environment that reflects that ambition. Bioclimatic Grade-A offices, well-connected business districts, and spaces designed for collaboration and long-term talent retention are not finishing touches. They are foundational to whether a city can compete for the next wave of GCC investment. TOA's work across GCC campuses, innovation headquarters, and high-performance corporate interiors is built around exactly this understanding.