Tech Mahindra is reportedly planning to set up its third campus in Odisha in 2018. Currently, the IT firm has started work on its second campus and the company would assist the state government in the efforts made to promote start-ups in the state.

Further, the IT company has plans to invest Rs 500 crore on its Odisha centre over the next five years.

Earlier, Tech Mahindra had announced to scale up headcount at its Bhubaneswar centre to 5,000. The headcount would be a mix of IT and ITes (IT enabled services). The company also had an intent to set up a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) centre in the city.

Tech Mahindra is a leading provider of solutions and services to the telecommunications industry with a majority stake owned by Mahindra & Mahindra. The company, since 2002 has operations in China with offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing and Guangzhou.