Lok Sabha Question No. 6038 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-04-04
Subject: STPIs
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: VIKRAM USENDI, KAVITHA KALVAKUNTLA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 6038

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 04.04.2018

## STPIs

## 6038.     SHRI VIKRAM USENDI: SHRIMATI KAVITHA KALVAKUNTLA:

Will the Minister of ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY be pleased to state:

- (a)  whether any Software Technology Parks of India (STPIs) have been set up in the country;
- (b) if so, the details thereof along with the objectives of setting up of such parks for the last three years;
- (c)  the State-wise details of STPIs which have been registered and are operational at present;
- (d)  whether the Government proposes to set up more units of STPIs in the country;
- (e)  if so, the State/UT-wise details of new STPIs proposed to be set up in the country; and
- (f)  the total amount of revenue collected by the Government in the last three financial years  from STPIs along with the State-wise break-up thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI K.J. ALPHONS)

(a): Yes, Sir.

(b): A total of 57 STPI centres are operational across the country, as of now, out of which 49 centres are in Tier II and Tier III cities.  Three new STPI centres at Agartala (Tripura), Gurugram (Haryana), and Surat (Gujarat) have been set up during the last three years.  The objectives of setting up of STPI centres are:

-  To promote the region as one of the preferred IT destination and to attract IT/ ITeS/ BPO Units to the State;
-  To promote the export of IT Software and Services from the region thus  contributing to Gross National Exports;
-  To  provide Statutory Services under Software  Technology Park (STP) and Electronic  Hardware Technology Park (EHTP) Schemes of the Government;
-  To provide High-Speed Data Communication and other value added services; and
-  Stimulate creation of direct and indirect employment opportunities.
- (c):  State-wise list of existing STPI centres is enclosed at Annexure- I.

(d):  Yes,  Sir.  The  Government  sets-up  new  units  of  STPIs  in  the  country  based  on  the  demand  from  the respective State Governments. Towards this, the State Government/ Centres of Excellence/ Higher Educational Institution are required to provide:

-  minimum 2 acres of developed land free of cost on long term lease, or
- 50,000 sq. ft. built-up area free of cost on long term lease, and
-  Feasibility  study  by  STPI  jointly  with  the  State  Government/  Centres  of  Excellence/  Higher Educational Institution to assess the potential of the location.

In  case  the  State  Government/  Centres  of  Excellence/  Higher  Educational  Institution  provides  a  minimum  2 acres of land, STPI constructs a minimum 20,000 sq.ft. built-up space as per the approved policy guidelines for "Infrastructure development at STPI centre and populating of incubation facilities".

- (e): List of proposed new STPI centres is enclosed at Annexure- II.

(f): The Government does not collect revenue from STPIs. The STPI registered units are engaged in export of Software/ Software Services. State wise breakups of the exports in the last three (3) financial years are enclosed at Annexure-III.

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## List of existing STPI Centres

| #   | State             | Centre Name        |
|-----|-------------------|--------------------|
| 1   |                   | Kakinada           |
| 2   |                   | Tirupati           |
| 3   | Andhra Pradesh    | Vijayawada         |
| 4   |                   | Vizag              |
| 5   | Assam             | Guwahati           |
| 6   | Bihar             | Patna              |
| 7   | Chhattisgarh      | Bhilai             |
| 8   |                   | Gandhinagar        |
| 9   | Gujarat           | Surat              |
| 10  | Haryana           | Gurgaon            |
| 11  | Himachal Pradesh  | Shimla             |
| 12  |                   | Jammu              |
| 13  | Jammu and Kashmir | Srinagar           |
| 14  | Jharkhand         | Ranchi             |
| 15  |                   | Bengaluru          |
| 16  |                   | Hubli              |
| 17  | Karnataka         | Mangalore          |
| 18  |                   | Manipal            |
| 19  |                   | Mysore             |
| 20  | Kerala            | Thiruvananthapuram |
| 21  | Madhya Pradesh    | Gwalior            |
| 22  |                   | Indore             |
| 23  |                   | Aurangabad         |
| 24  |                   | Kolhapur           |
| 25  | Maharashtra       | Nagpur             |
| 26  |                   | Nasik              |
| 27  |                   | Mumbai             |
| 28  |                   | Pune               |
| 29  | Manipur           | Imphal             |
| 30  | Meghalaya         | Shillong           |
| 31  | Mizoram           | Aizawl             |
| 32  |                   | Berhampur          |
| 33  | Odisha            | Bhubaneswar        |
| 34  |                   | Rourkela           |
| 35  | Pondicherry       | Pondicherry        |
| 36  | Punjab            | Mohali             |
| 37  | Rajasthan         | Jaipur             |
| 38  |                   | Jodhour            |
| 39  | Sikkim            | Gangtok            |
| 40  |                   | Chennai            |
| 41  |                   | Coimbatore         |
| 42  | Tamil Nadu        | Madurai            |
| 43  |                   | Tirunelveli        |
| 44  |                   | Trichy             |
| 45  |                   | Hyderabad          |
|     | Telangana         | Warangal           |
| 46  |                   | Allahabad          |
| 47  | Uttar Pradesh     |                    |
| 48  |                   | Kanpur             |

## Annexure-I

|   49 |             | Lucknow   |
|------|-------------|-----------|
|   50 |             | Noida     |
|   51 | Uttarakhand | Dehradun  |
|   52 | West Bengal | Durgapur  |
|   53 | West Bengal | Haldia    |
|   54 | West Bengal | Kharagpur |
|   55 | West Bengal | Kolkata   |
|   56 | West Bengal | Siliguri  |
|   57 | Tripura     | Agartala  |

Annexure-II

## List of upcoming STPI Centres

|   # | State             | Centre Name       |
|-----|-------------------|-------------------|
|   1 | Arunachal Pradesh | Itanagar          |
|   2 | Bihar             | Bhagalpur         |
|   3 | Bihar             | Darbhanga         |
|   4 | Goa               | Goa               |
|   5 | Jharkhand         | Bokaro            |
|   6 | Jharkhand         | Deoghar           |
|   7 | Jharkhand         | Dhanbad           |
|   8 | Jharkhand         | Jamshedpur        |
|   9 | Madhya Pradesh    | Bhopal            |
|  10 | Madhya Pradesh    | Chhindwada        |
|  11 | Madhya Pradesh    | Jabalpur          |
|  12 | Nagaland          | Kohima            |
|  13 | Odisha            | Angul             |
|  14 | Odisha            | Balasore          |
|  15 | Odisha            | Jajpur            |
|  16 | Odisha            | Koraput (Jeypore) |
|  17 | Odisha            | Sambalpur         |
|  18 | Punjab            | Amritsar          |
|  19 | Karnataka         | Davangere         |
|  20 | Uttar Pradesh     | Agra              |
|  21 | Uttar Pradesh     | Gorakhpur         |
|  22 | Uttar Pradesh     | Meerut            |
|  23 | Uttar Pradesh     | Varanasi          |
|  24 | Haryana           | Panchkula         |
|  25 | Gujarat           | Bhavnagar         |

Annexure-III State Wise Exports by STPI registered IT/ITeS units (` in Crore)

|   # | State            |   FY2014-15 |   FY2015-16 |   FY2016-17 |
|-----|------------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
|   1 | Karnataka        |   109798    |   125419    |   141846    |
|   2 | Maharashtra      |    61314    |    64064    |    69010    |
|   3 | Telangana        |    39186    |    41480    |    46429    |
|   4 | Tamilnadu        |    33276    |    33905    |    34563    |
|   5 | Haryana          |    17858    |    19265    |    20874    |
|   6 | Uttar Pradesh    |    13740    |    16451    |    17237    |
|   7 | West Bengal      |     7015    |     6990    |     7152    |
|   8 | Kerala           |     2867.8  |     3008.9  |     3534.5  |
|   9 | Odisha           |     1940    |     2179.7  |     2493.4  |
|  10 | Gujarat          |     1917.8  |     2224.6  |     2363.5  |
|  11 | Delhi            |     2217.9  |     1442.3  |     1483.6  |
|  12 | Rajasthan        |      712.27 |      803.97 |      997.32 |
|  13 | Chandigarh       |      519.89 |      700.79 |      758.82 |
|  14 | Andhra Pradesh   |      379.54 |      477.9  |      526.69 |
|  15 | Madhya Pradesh   |      343.38 |      355    |      516.18 |
|  16 | Punjab           |      336.34 |      324.83 |      369.93 |
|  17 | Puducherry       |      153.26 |      182.55 |      239.21 |
|  18 | Uttarakhand      |       74.67 |       82.57 |       89.88 |
|  19 | Goa              |       94.59 |      117.17 |       85.13 |
|  20 | Sikkim           |        0    |        0    |       38.29 |
|  21 | Chhattisgarh     |       18.63 |       23.29 |       36.79 |
|  22 | Assam            |        1.35 |        0.18 |       10.5  |
|  23 | Meghalaya        |        4.21 |        6.31 |        7.7  |
|  24 | Himachal Pradesh |        8.35 |        5.16 |        6.97 |
|  25 | Bihar            |       10.63 |        7.25 |        4.65 |
|  26 | Jammu &Kashmir   |        2.45 |        3.35 |        3.58 |

| 27   | Jharkhand   |      7 |   49.16 |      2 |
|------|-------------|--------|---------|--------|
|      | Total       | 293796 |  319569 | 350680 |