Lok Sabha Question No. 125 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-11-16
Subject: IT & ITES Services
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: PR. SENTHILNATHAN

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF   ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.  125

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 16.11.2016

## IT & ITES  SERVICES

## 125. SHRI PR. SENTHIL NATHAN:

Will the Minister of Communications & Information Technology be pleased to state: -

- (a) whether the Government has provided adequate financial and infrastructure facilities to develop  employment  opportunities  in  the  field  of  Information  Technology  and  IT enabled services in the country;
- (b) if so, the details thereof, State-wise;
- (c) the  total  number  of  IT  and  ITES  employees  employed  in  Government,  Public  and Private sector companies in the country; and
- (d) the new employment opportunity likely to be created in these sector in near future?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI P. P. CHOUDHARY)

(a) to (c): According to National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), direct  employment  in  the  IT  services  and  BPO/ITeS  segment  is  estimated  to  be  growing  at approximately  6  %  reaching  to  3.7  million  in  2015-16  with  over  200,000  jobs  being  added during the year.  Indirect job creation is estimated at 10.0 million.

The phenomenal success of the Information Technology and IT Enabled Services (ITITES) industry has been possible through the pivotal role played by the Software Technology Park  (STP)  Scheme  and  provision  of  fiscal  benefits  (available  till  01-04-2011)  under  Section 10A of the Income Tax Act.  In addition, STP Units continue to avail various other benefits, in accordance  with  the  Foreign  Trade  Policy  (FTP)  which,  inter-alia,  include  Customs  Duty exemption  on  imported  goods,  reimbursement  of  Central  Sales  Tax  (CST)  and  Excise  Duty exemptions on procurement of indigenously manufactured goods. Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) an autonomous Society under Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology has  setup  56  centres  across  the  country  as  per  the  list  (State/UT  wise)  at Annexure, which provide  single  window  clearance  and  infrastructure  facilities  especially  to  Small  and  Medium Enterprises  and start-ups.

Department  of  Commerce  (DOC),  Ministry  of  Commerce  &  Industry  which  is  the nodal Department for SEZs, has notified 204 IT-ITES specific Special Economic Zones (SEZs). Currently, the SEZs units are eligible for tax benefits as per Section 10AA of the Income Tax Act for a period of 15 years in a phased manner.  The above schemes have facilitated creation of employment opportunities in the IT-ITES sector in the country.

(d): The IT-ITES industry keep transforming itself to create business impact for its clients and move up the value chain from focusing on costs, to providing operational excellence, then moving  to  providing  business  solutions,  improving  productivity  and  now  currently  providing business innovation. New technologies such as  Internet of Things, Robotics, Big data analytics, nanotechnology,  gaming  and  next  generation  genomics    would  create  more  employment opportunities.

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## ANNEXURE

## List of 56 existing STPI Centres

|   SN | States           | Location           |
|------|------------------|--------------------|
|    1 | Andhra Pradesh   | Kakinada           |
|    2 | Andhra Pradesh   | Tirupati           |
|    3 | Andhra Pradesh   | Vijayawada         |
|    4 | Andhra Pradesh   | Vizag              |
|    5 | Assam            | Guwahati           |
|    6 | Bihar            | Patna              |
|    7 | Chhattisgarh     | Bhilai             |
|    8 | Gujarat          | Gandhinagar        |
|    9 | Gujarat          | Surat              |
|   10 | Himachal Pradesh | Shimla             |
|   11 | Jammu &Kashmir   | Srinagar           |
|   12 | Jammu &Kashmir   | Jammu              |
|   13 | Jharkhand        | Ranchi             |
|   14 | Karnataka        | Bangaluru          |
|   15 | Karnataka        | Hubli              |
|   16 | Karnataka        | Mangalore          |
|   17 | Karnataka        | Manipal            |
|   18 | Karnataka        | Mysore             |
|   19 | Kerala           | Thiruvananthapuram |
|   20 | Madhya Pradesh   | Indore             |
|   21 | Madhya Pradesh   | Gwalior            |
|   22 | Maharashtra      | Aurangabad         |
|   23 | Maharashtra      | Nagpur             |
|   24 | Maharashtra      | Nasik              |
|   25 | Maharashtra      | Navi Mumbai        |
|   26 | Maharashtra      | Kolhapur           |
|   27 | Maharashtra      | Pune               |
|   28 | Manipur          | Imphal             |

|   29 | Meghalya      | Shillong    |
|------|---------------|-------------|
|   30 | Mizoram       | Aizwal      |
|   31 | Orissa        | Bhubaneswar |
|   32 | Orissa        | Rourkela    |
|   33 | Orissa        | Berhampur   |
|   34 | Pondicherry   | Pondicherry |
|   35 | Punjab        | Mohali      |
|   36 | Rajasthan     | Jaipur      |
|   37 | Rajasthan     | Jodhpur     |
|   38 | Sikkim        | Gangtok     |
|   39 | Tamilnadu     | Chennai     |
|   40 | Tamilnadu     | Coimbatore  |
|   41 | Tamilnadu     | Madurai     |
|   42 | Tamilnadu     | Tirunelveli |
|   43 | Tamilnadu     | Trichy      |
|   44 | Telangana     | Hyderabad   |
|   45 | Telangana     | Warangal    |
|   46 | Uttar Pradesh | Kanpur      |
|   47 | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow     |
|   48 | Uttar Pradesh | Noida       |
|   49 | Uttar Pradesh | Allahabad   |
|   50 | Uttarakhand   | Dehradun    |
|   51 | West Bengal   | Kolkata     |
|   52 | West Bengal   | Durgapur    |
|   53 | West Bengal   | Kharagpur   |
|   54 | West Bengal   | Siliguri    |
|   55 | West Bengal   | Haldia      |
|   56 | Haryana       | Gurugram    |