Lok Sabha Question No. 1949 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-03-09
Subject: Software Technology Parks
Ministry: COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: JOSE K. MANI, RAMESWAR TELI

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY)

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No.  1949

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 09.03.2016

## SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY PARKS

## 1949.   SHRI JOSE K. MANI: SHRI RAMESWAR TELI:

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

- (a) the objectives behind setting up of Software Technology Park of India (STP);
- (b) the  details  of  Software  Technology  Park  of  India  which  have  been  registered  and currently functioning State-wise;
- (c) whether there are plans to set up more such units in the rural and backward areas of the country; and
- (d) if so, the details of new STPs planned, State/UT-wise?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI RAVI SHANKAR PRASAD)

- (a):  The objectives of the Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) are as under:
- (i) To promote the development and export of software and software services including ITeS/ Bio- IT.
- (ii) To provide statutory and other promotional services to the exporters by implementing Software  Technology  Park  (STP)/  Electronics  Hardware  Technology  Park  (EHTP) schemes  and  such  other  schemes  which  may  be  formulated  and  entrusted  by  the Government from time to time.
- (iii) To provide data communication services including value added services to IT / ITeS related industries.
- (iv) To promote micro, small and medium entrepreneurs by creating conducive environment for entrepreneurship in the field of IT/ITeS.

(b) to (d):   A total of 54 STPI centres are currently functioning across the country as per the list (State/UT wise) at Annexure-A. STPI is in the process of setting up 24 more STPI centres in smaller cities/towns. The State-wise list of these proposed STPI centres is at Annexure-B.

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## ANNEXURE-A

List of 54 existing STPI Centres

|   SN | States           | Location           |
|------|------------------|--------------------|
|    1 |                  | Kakinada           |
|    2 |                  | Tirupati           |
|    3 | Andhra Pradesh   | Vijayawada         |
|    4 |                  | Vizag              |
|    5 | Assam            | Guwahati           |
|    6 | Bihar            | Patna              |
|    7 | Chhattisgarh     | Bhilai             |
|    8 | Gujarat          | Gandhinagar        |
|   09 | Himachal Pradesh | Shimla             |
|   10 | Jammu &Kashmir   | Srinagar           |
|   11 |                  | Jammu              |
|   12 | Jharkhand        | Ranchi             |
|   13 |                  | Bangaluru          |
|   14 |                  | Hubli              |
|   15 | Karnataka        | Mangalore          |
|   16 |                  | Manipal            |
|   17 |                  | Mysore             |
|   18 | Kerala           | Thiruvananthapuram |
|   19 |                  | Indore             |
|   20 | Madhya Pradesh   | Gwalior            |
|   21 |                  | Aurangabad         |
|   22 |                  | Nagpur             |
|   23 |                  | Nasik              |
|   24 | Maharashtra      | Navi Mumbai        |
|   25 |                  | Kolhapur           |
|   26 |                  | Pune               |
|   27 | Manipur          | Imphal             |
|   28 | Meghalya         | Shillong           |
|   20 | Mizoram          | Aizwal             |
|   30 |                  | Bhubaneswar        |
|   31 | Orissa           | Rourkela           |
|   32 |                  | Berhampur          |
|   33 | Pondicherry      | Pondicherry        |
|   34 | Punjab           | Mohali             |
|   35 |                  | Jaipur             |
|   36 | Rajasthan        | Jodhpur            |
|   37 | Sikkim           | Gangtok            |
|   38 | Tamilnadu        | Chennai            |

|   39 |               | Coimbatore   |
|------|---------------|--------------|
|   40 |               | Madurai      |
|   41 |               | Tirunelveli  |
|   42 |               | Trichy       |
|   43 | Telangana     | Hyderabad    |
|   44 |               | Warangal     |
|   45 |               | Kanpur       |
|   46 |               | Lucknow      |
|   47 | Uttar Pradesh | Noida        |
|   48 |               | Allahabad    |
|   49 | Uttarakhand   | Dehradun     |
|   50 |               | Kolkata      |
|   51 |               | Durgapur     |
|   52 | West Bengal   | Kharagpur    |
|   53 |               | Siliguri     |
|   54 |               | Haldia       |

## ANNEXURE-B

## List of approved STPI Centres to be set up State-wise

|   Sl. No. | Location          | State             |
|-----------|-------------------|-------------------|
|         1 | Itanagar          | Arunachal Pradesh |
|         2 | Darbhanga         | Bihar             |
|         3 | Bhagalpur         | Bihar             |
|         4 | Jamshedpur        |                   |
|         5 | Deoghar           |                   |
|         6 | Dhanbad           | Jharkhand         |
|         7 | Bokaro            |                   |
|         8 | Goa               | Goa               |
|         9 | Surat             | Gujrat            |
|        10 | Bhopal            | Madhya Pradesh    |
|        11 | Chinndwada        |                   |
|        12 | Jabalpur          |                   |
|        13 | Kohima-Dimapur    | Nagaland          |
|        14 | Balasore          | Odisha            |
|        15 | Angul             | Odisha            |
|        16 | Jajpur            | Odisha            |
|        17 | Koraput (jeypore) | Odisha            |
|        18 | Sambalpur         |                   |
|        19 | Amritsar          | Punjab            |
|        20 | Agartala          | Tripura           |
|        21 | Agra              | Uttar Pradesh     |
|        22 | Gorakhpur         |                   |
|        23 | Meerut            |                   |
|        24 | Varanasi          |                   |

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