Hinjewadi or Hinjawadi or Hinjwadi was a small village on the NH4 bypass around the City of Pune

Pune

Pune , is the eighth largest metropolis in India, the second largest in the state of Maharashtra after Mumbai, and the largest city in the Western Ghats. Once the centre of power of the Maratha Empire, it is situated 560 metres above sea level on the Deccan plateau at the confluence of the Mula ...

 in India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. Now it's the Place for Rajiv Gandhi Infotech Park housing around 20 software companies as listed below.

A completely rural local until the construction of the Rajiv Gandhi Infotech Park, Two Phases have been completed amidst rapid urbanization of surrounding areas. The third phase of the infotech park is under construction, with further phases planned. Hinjewadi is second most upcoming town in Maharashtra state.

The place name is often misspelled as "Hinjewadi" and mis-pronounced as हिंजेवाडी.

The technology park at Hinjawadi houses many software companies. Some of them are: IBM India

IBM India

IBM India is the Indian subsidiary of IBM. It has facilities in Bangalore, Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai, Pune, Gurgaon, Noida, Chandigarh, Indore and Hyderabad....

, AtoS

ATOS

ATOS is a high density railway transport management system of an unprecedented scale. The system has been continuously built up in stages after the online operation of its first station commenced in 1994 and successfully operating since then...

, Synechron

Synechron

Synechron Technologies Limited, is a global information technology services company headquartered in Piscataway, New Jersey, USA. Synechron is a leading IT services company with more than 2800 employees as of August 2011...

, Mahindra Enginering (located at the remotest corner of phase 2), Idea Cellular

Idea cellular

Idea Cellular, usually referred to as Idea, is an Indian wireless telecom company based in Mumbai, India. Idea is the 3rd largest mobile services operator in India, in revenue terms, and recorded of over 98.4 million customers as of August 2011....

, KPIT Cummins

KPIT Cummins

KPIT Cummins is a product engineering and IT consulting company providing solutions and services to the Manufacturing, Automotive, Industrial Equipments, Utilities and Semiconductor companies. It is headquartered in Pune India and has offices in 11 countries including the United Kingdom, China,...

, Tata Technologies

Tata Technologies Limited

Tata Technologies Limited is a company in the Tata Group that provides services in Engineering and Design , Product Lifecycle Management , Enterprise Solutions, manufacturing and product development IT services to Tier 1 automotive and aerospace OEMs and their suppliers...

, Infosys

Infosys

Infosys Limited, formerly Infosys Technologies Limited is a global technology services company headquartered in Bangalore, India. It is the second largest IT exporter in India with 133,560 employees as of March 2011. It has offices in 33 countries and development centers in India, China,...

, Wipro

Wipro

Wipro Limited formally Western India Products Limited is a global IT services and consulting company headquartered in Bangalore, India. As of 2011, Wipro is the second largest IT services company by turnover in India and employs more than 120,000 people worldwide as of March 2011...

, Credit Suisse

Credit Suisse

The Credit Suisse Group AG is a Swiss multinational financial services company headquartered in Zurich, with more than 250 branches in Switzerland and operations in more than 50 countries.-History:...

  (located inside Wipro

Wipro

Wipro Limited formally Western India Products Limited is a global IT services and consulting company headquartered in Bangalore, India. As of 2011, Wipro is the second largest IT services company by turnover in India and employs more than 120,000 people worldwide as of March 2011...

),Tata Consultancy Services

Tata Consultancy Services

Tata Consultancy Services Limited is a global IT services, business solutions and outsourcing company headquartered in Mumbai, India. It is the largest provider of information technology in Asia and second largest provider of business process outsourcing services in India...

, Geometric Limited

Geometric Limited

Geometric Ltd is a software services and consulting company headquartered in Mumbai, India. Its portfolio includes Product Lifecycle Management , Global Engineering Services and Offshore Product Development solutions and technologies....

, Tech Mahindra

Tech Mahindra

Tech Mahindra Limited is a provider of information technology , networking technology solutions and business process outsourcing services to the global telecommunications industry. Headquartered at Pune, India...

, Cognizant Technology Solutions

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. is an American global provider of custom information technology, consulting and business process outsourcing services. Its headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey, United States and is a member of NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500 and Fortune 500...

, Persistent Systems

Persistent Systems

Persistent Systems is a business based in Pune, India, that sells outsourced software development. It was established in 1990. Persistent has over 6,800 employees and 300 customers spread across North America, Europe, and Asia. -History:...

 (under construction), Honeywell

Honeywell

Honeywell International, Inc. is a major conglomerate company that produces a variety of consumer products, engineering services, and aerospace systems for a wide variety of customers, from private consumers to major corporations and governments....

, Mindtree

MindTree

MindTree Limited, formerly known as MindTree Consulting Limited , is a mid-sized international information technology consulting and implementation company. It operates in two units: production engineering services and IT services. MindTree was started in 1999 by ten industry professionals from...

, 3DPLM Software Solutions, CECsoft, Compulink, Pesh-Infotech and Digital Group InfoTech, . It also houses product companies such as Compulink and CISCO

Cisco

Cisco may refer to:Companies:*Cisco Systems, a computer networking company* Certis CISCO, corporatised entity of the former Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation in Singapore...

. SCMHRD is also housed in Hinjewadi Phase 1.

Phase 1 & 2 of the Hinjewadi IT Park are completed. At present time Phase 3 is under construction. In future time there are plans for Phase 4 and the MIDC has earmarked an area for biotech firms. A few, like Emcure and Eclerx

Eclerx

eClerx & is an Indian KPO based in Mumbai. eClerx is a public limited company whose shares are listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange...

, are already present in phase 2. Due to rapid development, Hinjewadi is facing serious traffic problems during peak hours. From 8.30 AM to 11:30 AM the HMVs (Heavy Motor Vehicles) are not allowed to enter the area due to congestion on the roads. About 3-5 Lac workers travel daily to and fro the IT park. Traffic problem is getting worse day by day.

Due to rapid developments in and around Hinjewadi, property prices have skyrocketed. With political blessings, real estate companies like Paranjape, Kumar Properties have already begun the consructions in this area.