Besides in line with its assurance of clearances for mega projects within 15 days, the speedy approval is a pointer to the State government’s stamp of approval of Amazons model. “Our Commercial Taxes department has cleared their business model,” a senior official in the Industries Department said, agreeing the State a few months ago examined transactions of e-commerce firms, including Amazon. It did so to ascertain whether such deals were a cause for dropping revenues.

Amazon made the announcement on the new FC after a team led by its senior vice president (worldwide operations and customer service) Dave Clark met Chief Minister K.Chandrasekhar Rao and IT Minister K.T.Rama Rao in the city. With the new FC, the company will have 11 such operational facilities in nine States covering over one million square feet space. The cumulative storage capacity is over 2.5 million cubic feet.

In a statement, the Chief Minister reiterated his government’s efforts to make the State investor friendly. Mr.Clark said the decision to invest more in Telangana – where Amazon’s IT operations are based – is based on the ease of doing business in the State.