Srinagar, Oct. 7 -- You may already know about it. The Department of Labour and Employment, Government of J&K is working closely with IIM Jammu to organise a benchmark event, the J&K GCC Summit 2026, where 55 panelists interact with leading government officials and other stakeholders over two days to find out the optimal path to make J&K an emerging destination for GCCs.

But what are GCCs? The earlier BPOs were outsourced, but Global Capability Centres are fully owned in-house centres that companies build to centralise many core business operations, including technology, R&D, corporate processes (HR, payroll, you name it) and so on. And no, they are not data centres. While data centres are physical infrastructure based, GCCs are intrinsi...