Gurgaon, the satellite city of Haryana is one of the hottest cities In India today. It is hot in terms of being the investment zone, which has directly influenced the real estate development of the city. With the support of liberal government policies, better infrastructure and availability of skilled professionals, Gurgaon is one of the prime cities in India for foreign companies to start their operations. Major Medical Hub of India The large scale investments in the IT sector, BPOs, retail and hospitality has brought about a boom in Real Estate Gurgaon, consequently speeding up investment in the residential sector to fill up the demand for living spaces for the additional workforce in the city. Moving over from being the IT and BPO hub, Gurgaon is contemplating to achieve its next business-cap of being the Medical hub of India. And with developers vying in to cash on the next business opportunity, Gurgaon may well be the next medical destination of the country. A number of projects have already taken off with top developers such as DLF and Ansal Properties and Infrastructure (APIL) and construction majors such as Punj Lloyd among others; and if industry sources are to be believed, the speed at which all these projects are on, in the next few years Gurgaon will have an estimated 3,000 beds in the premium organized private medical sector. There are also plans to have colleges for post-graduate medical teaching, nursing college and a college for paramedical staff to meet the demand for workforce in the upcoming sector. Many medical units are also planning on tie-ups with foreign universities for advanced study and treatment facilities. This plans if materialized would help people to have better treatment facilities in the country without going abroad. One of the significant projects in this category is Medicity, promoted by the well-known heart surgeon Dr. Naresh Trehan with a few other equity partners. The 1000-crore project will be a state-of-the-art integrated medical township and will have apart from core hospital units, a market complex and service apartments. There are also a number of mega projects in the medical sector which are in the conceptualization stage. There is also a new project coming up in Gurgaon which will offer telemedicine services to patients at minimal cost. Techno Telemedicine and Telehealthcare, the Delhi-based company has conceptualized this project which will link15, 000 medical centers across more than ten states. The project, conceptualized on the hub and spokes model, will have an Internet hub centre at Gurgaon, Haryana duly linked to Satellite Medical Centers (SMCs) spread across the country for which the Government of Haryana has already granted 20 acres of land. With time and more inflow of investments in India, particularly this sector, Gurgaon will open up for more opportunities and the real estate sector is sure to touch new dimensions with Gurgaon to be fast developing into a one-stop destination for medical tourism in India. |
