Infosys will recruit 4,000 engineers, 1,000 each in the next four quarters in 2011-12, for its Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Hyderabad. This will take the total to 6,500 by the end of March 31, 2012.

The company, which has invested Rs 230 crore so far, would spend Rs 750 crore more on the 448-acre SEZ at Pocharam on the city outskirts. Though it signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Andhra Pradesh Government in May 2007, the SEZ got notified only on October 27, 2008, and environmental clearance came in May 2009.