Lok Sabha Question No. 2838 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2015-12-16
Subject: STPs
Ministry: COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: ANTO  ANTONY

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.  2838.

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 16.12.2015

## STPs

## 2838.         SHRI ANTO  ANTONY:

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

- (a) whether the Government has any record regarding the number of Software Technology Parks (STPs) functioning in the country;
- (b) if so, the details thereof, State-wise;
- (c) whether  the  Government  has  received  any  proposal  for  setting  up  of  new  STPs  in various parts of the country; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof, including the number of proposals received and the response of the Government thereto, State-wise?

## ANSWER

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

(a) and (b):  Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), an autonomous society under the Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Communications and  Information  Technology,  Government  of  India  has  set  up  53  STPI  Centres  across  the country, which are functional. The State-wise list of STPI Centres is at Annexure-I. The list of approved new STPI centres under various stages of implementation is at Annexure - II.

(c) and (d):  Currently, eight  proposals for setting up of new STPI Centres from the State of Bihar, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh as per details at Annexure - III, are under evaluation.

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List of STPI Centres

|   SN | State/UT         | Location           |
|------|------------------|--------------------|
|    1 |                  | Vizag              |
|    2 |                  | Tirupati           |
|    3 | Andhra Pradesh   | Vijayawada         |
|    4 |                  | Kakinada           |
|    5 |                  | Hyderabad          |
|    6 | Telangana        | Warangal           |
|    7 | Assam            | Guwahati           |
|    8 | Chhattisgarh     | Bhilai             |
|    9 | Gujarat          | Gandhinagar        |
|   10 | Himachal Pradesh | Shimla             |
|   11 |                  | Srinagar           |
|   12 | Jammu &Kashmir   | Jammu              |
|   13 | Jharkhand        | Ranchi             |
|   14 |                  | Bangaluru          |
|   15 |                  | Hubli              |
|   16 | Karnataka        | Mangalore          |
|   17 |                  | Manipal            |
|   18 |                  | Mysore             |
|   19 | Kerala           | Thiruvananthapuram |
|   20 |                  | Indore             |
|   21 | Madhya Pradesh   | Gwalior            |
|   22 |                  | Aurangabad         |
|   23 |                  | Nagpur             |
|   24 |                  | Nasik              |
|   25 | Maharashtra      | Navi Mumbai        |
|   26 |                  | Kolhapur           |
|   27 |                  | Pune               |
|   28 | Manipur          | Imphal             |
|   29 |                  | Bhubaneswar        |
|   30 | Orissa           | Rourkela           |
|   31 |                  | Berhampur          |
|   32 | Puducherry (UT)  | Puducherry         |
|   33 | Punjab           | Mohali             |
|   34 |                  | Jaipur             |
|   35 | Rajasthan        | Jodhpur            |
|   36 | Sikkim           | Gangtok            |
|   37 | Tamilnadu        | Chennai            |

## ANNEXURE - I

|   38 |               | Coimbatore   |
|------|---------------|--------------|
|   39 |               | Madurai      |
|   40 |               | Tirunelveli  |
|   41 |               | Trichy       |
|   42 |               | Kanpur       |
|   43 |               | Lucknow      |
|   44 | Uttar Pradesh | Noida        |
|   45 |               | Allahabad    |
|   46 | Uttarakhand   | Dehradun     |
|   47 |               | Kolkata      |
|   48 |               | Durgapur     |
|   49 | West Bengal   | Kharagpur    |
|   50 |               | Siliguri     |
|   51 |               | Haldia       |
|   52 | Bihar         | Patna        |
|   53 | Meghalya      | Shillong     |

## ANNEXURE -II

List of  STPI Centres under Implementation

|   Sl. No. | Location   | State          |
|-----------|------------|----------------|
|         1 | Surat      | Gujrat         |
|         2 | Jamshedpur |                |
|         3 | Deoghar    |                |
|         4 | Dhanbad    | Jharkhand      |
|         5 | Bokaro     |                |
|         6 | Goa        | Goa            |
|         7 | Bhopal     |                |
|         8 | Chinndwada | Madhya Pradesh |
|         9 | Jabalpur   |                |
|        10 | Aizwal     | Mizoram        |
|        11 | Balasore   | Odisha         |
|        12 | Amritsar   | Punjab         |
|        13 | Agartala   | Tripura        |
|        14 | Agra       |                |
|        15 | Varanasi   | Uttar Pradesh  |

ANNEXURE -III List of Proposed new STPI Centres- State Wise

|   S. N. | Location          | State   |
|---------|-------------------|---------|
|       1 | Darbhanga         | Bihar   |
|       2 | Bhagalpur         | Bihar   |
|       3 | Angul             | Odisha  |
|       4 | Jajpur            | Odisha  |
|       5 | Koraput (Jeypore) | Odisha  |

|   6 | Sambalpur   |
|-----|-------------|
|   7 | Meerut      |
|   8 | Gorakhpur   |