HYDERABAD: Internet services company Google, global e-commerce major Amazon, global banking giant HSBC and others have decided to go ahead their expansion plans, which were stuck due to political uncertainty and issues relating to land allotment in Hyderabad.

With the formation of Telangana state ending the political uncertainty and the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government keen to create investment-friendly atmosphere, the big firms have started working out their plans.

Information Technology Minister K. Tarakarama Rao Tuesday said the problems relating to allotment of land for Google would be sorted out soon.

Google plans to set up its own campus, which will be its first outside the US.

The state government in 2007 had allotted it 20 acres land at Kokapet but this ran into legal trouble. "The matter will be sorted out soon," the minister told reporters.

Last year, the then Congress government of united Andhra Pradesh had agreed to provide alternate land at Raidurg. It was immediately not clear if Google campus will come up at the original site or the one proposed last year.

The global search engine giant employs 3,000 employees at three locations in the city and plans to double the headcount in five years.

The minister said the problem with regard to land allotted for Amazon would also be sorted out soon. The retail giant was 10.57 acres of land at Nanakramguda in 2005 by the then government but the company could not begin construction due to legal hassles over the land.

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