Lok Sabha Question No. 1038 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-07-26
Subject: New Software Parks
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: Kotagiri Sridhar

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1038

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 26.07.2023

## NEW SOFTWARE PARKS

## 1038.    SHRI SRIDHAR KOTAGIRI:

Will the Minister of Electronics and Information Technology be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has any plans to setup new software parks in the country;
- (b) if so, the details thereof, State/UT-wise, particularly in Andhra Pradesh; and
- (c) if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE FOR ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI RAJEEV CHANDRASEKHAR)

(a)  and    (b):  Yes,  Sir.  Software  Technology  Parks  of  India  (STPI)an  autonomous  society under  Ministry  of  Electronics  and  Information  Technology  (MeitY),  is  instrumental  in proliferating  digital  technologies  across  the  country  to  drive  Government's  initiatives  to smaller towns. These STPI centres are offering state-of-art infrastructure facilities including plug-n-play  facility,  centralized  computing  and  High-Speed  Data  Communication.As  on date, STPI has set-up 63 STPI centres across the countryincluding four STPI centres in the State of Andhra Pradesh at Kakinada, Tirupati, Vijayawada and Vizag. Further, Government of India has also approved 22 new STPI centres across the country.State/UTwise list of existing and approved STPI Centres are at Annexure-I and Annexure-II.

- (c):  Does not arise.

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## Sate-wise list of operational STPI Centres

| S. No   | State             | Centre Name        |
|---------|-------------------|--------------------|
| 1.      | Andhra Pradesh    | Kakinada           |
| 2.      |                   | Tirupati           |
| 3.      |                   | Vijayawada         |
| 4.      |                   | Vizag              |
| 5.      | Assam             | Guwahati           |
| 6.      | Bihar             | Patna              |
| 7.      | Chhattisgarh      | Bhilai             |
| 8.      | Gujarat           | Gandhinagar        |
| 9.      |                   | Surat              |
| 10.     | Haryana           | Gurgaon            |
| 11.     | Himachal Pradesh  | Shimla             |
| 12.     | Jammu and Kashmir | Jammu              |
| 13.     |                   | Srinagar           |
| 14.     | Jharkhand         | Ranchi             |
| 15.     |                   | Deoghar            |
| 16.     | Karnataka         | Bengaluru          |
| 17.     |                   | Hubli              |
| 18.     |                   | Mangalore          |
| 19.     |                   | Manipal            |
| 20.     |                   | Mysore             |
| 21. 22. |                   | Davangere          |
|         | Kerala            | Thiruvananthapuram |
| 23.     | Madhya Pradesh    | Gwalior            |
| 24.     |                   | Bhopal             |
| 25.     |                   | Indore             |
| 26.     | Maharashtra       | Aurangabad         |
| 27.     |                   | Kolhapur           |
| 28.     |                   | Nagpur             |
| 29.     |                   | Nasik              |
| 30.     |                   | Mumbai             |
| 31.     |                   | Pune               |
| 32.     | Manipur           | Imphal             |
| 33.     | Meghalaya         | Shillong           |
| 34.     | Mizoram           | Aizawl             |
| 35.     | Odisha            | Berhampur          |
| 36.     |                   | Bhubaneswar        |
| 37.     |                   | Rourkela           |
| 38.     | Pondicherry       | Pondicherry        |
| 39.     | Punjab            | Mohali             |
| 40.     | Rajasthan         | Jaipur             |
| 41.     |                   | Jodhpur            |
| 42.     | Sikkim            | Gangtok            |
| 43.     | Tamil Nadu        | Chennai            |
| 44.     |                   | Coimbatore         |
| 45.     |                   | Madurai            |
| 46.     |                   | Tirunelveli        |
| 47.     |                   | Trichy             |
| 48.     | Telangana         | Hyderabad          |
| 49.     |                   | Warangal           |
| 50.     | Uttar Pradesh     | Allahabad          |
| 51.     |                   | Kanpur             |

## Annexure-I

|   S. No | State       | Centre Name   |
|---------|-------------|---------------|
|      52 |             | Lucknow       |
|      53 |             | Noida         |
|      54 |             | Meerut        |
|      55 | Uttarakhand | Dehradun      |
|      56 | West Bengal | Durgapur      |
|      57 |             | Haldia        |
|      58 |             | Kharagpur     |
|      59 |             | Kolkata       |
|      60 |             | Siliguri      |
|      61 | Tripura     | Agartala      |
|      62 | Goa         | Goa           |
|      63 | Nagaland    | Kohima        |

Annexure-II State-wise list of approved new STPI Centres

|   S.N | State             | Location          |
|-------|-------------------|-------------------|
|     1 | Madhya Pradesh    | Chhindwada        |
|     2 | Madhya Pradesh    | Jabalpur          |
|     3 | Punjab            | Amritsar          |
|     4 | Jharkhand         | Dhanbad           |
|     5 | Jharkhand         | Jamshedpur        |
|     6 | Jharkhand         | Bokaro            |
|     7 | Uttar Pradesh     | Agra              |
|     8 | Uttar Pradesh     | Varanasi          |
|     9 | Uttar Pradesh     | Gorakhpur         |
|    10 | Uttar Pradesh     | Bareilly          |
|    11 | Kerala            | Kochi             |
|    12 | Arunachal Pradesh | Itanagar          |
|    13 | Odisha            | Balasore          |
|    14 | Odisha            | Sambalpur         |
|    15 | Odisha            | Jajpur            |
|    16 | Odisha            | Angul             |
|    17 | Odisha            | Koraput (Jeypore) |
|    18 | Bihar             | Darbhanga         |
|    19 | Bihar             | Bhagalpur         |
|    20 | Haryana           | Panchkula         |
|    21 | Gujarat           | Bhavnagar         |
|    22 | Himachal Pradesh  | Kangra            |

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