Lok Sabha Question No. 251 (STARRED), answered on 2015-12-16
Subject: Software Technology Parks
Ministry: COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: ASHOK MAHADEORAO NETE

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

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

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO.  *251

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 16.12.2015

## SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY PARKS

## *251.   SHRI ASHOK MAHADEORAO NETE:

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

- (a) whether the Government proposes to establish software technology parks so as to facilitate information revolution in the rural areas particularly in the backward and tribal areas of Maharashtra;
- (b) if so, the details of such parks set up in various States particularly in the backward and tribal areas of Maharashtra; and
- (c) the locations where the new technology parks are proposed to be set up, State-wise and the expenditure likely to be incurred thereon?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI RAVI SHANKAR PRASAD)

- (a)  to  (c): A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

## STATEMENT  REFERRED  IN  REPLY  TO  RAJYA  SABHA  STARRED QUESTION NO. *251 FOR 16.12.2015 REGARDING  'SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY PARKS'.

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(a)  to  (c):    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 including six centres in the State of Maharashtra  which  are  located  at  Aurangabad,  Nagpur,  Nasik,  Navi  Mumbai, Kolhapur and Pune. Out of 53 STPI centres, 46 centres are in non-metro locations. The State-wise location  of  STPI Centres is at Annexure-I .  The list of approved new STPI centres under various stages of implementation is at Annexure - II . In addition, there are eight proposals for setting up of new STPI centres as per details at Annexure - III. As per policy for setting up of new STPI centres, the cost shall be borne by STPI only from its internal accruals.

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List of STPI Centres

| SN State/UT         | Location           |
|---------------------|--------------------|
| 1                   | Vizag              |
| 2                   | Tirupati           |
| Andhra Pradesh 3    | Vijayawada         |
| 4                   | Kakinada           |
| 5                   | Hyderabad          |
| Telangana 6         | Warangal           |
| 7 Assam             | Guwahati           |
| 8 Chhattisgarh      | Bhilai             |
| 9 Gujarat           | Gandhinagar        |
| 10 Himachal Pradesh | Shimla             |
| 11                  | Srinagar           |
| Jammu &Kashmir 12   | Jammu              |
| 13 Jharkhand        | Ranchi             |
| 14                  | Bangaluru          |
| 15                  | Hubli              |
| Karnataka 16        | Mangalore          |
| 17                  | Manipal            |
| 18                  | Mysore             |
| 19 Kerala           | Thiruvananthapuram |
| 20                  | Indore             |
| Madhya Pradesh 21   | Gwalior            |
| 22                  | Aurangabad         |
| 23                  | Nagpur             |
| 24                  | Nasik              |
| Maharashtra 25      | Navi Mumbai        |
| 26                  | Kolhapur           |
| 27                  | Pune               |
| 28 Manipur          | Imphal             |
| 29                  | Bhubaneswar        |
| Orissa 30 31        | Rourkela           |
|                     | Berhampur          |
| 32 Puducherry (UT)  | Puducherry         |
| 33 Punjab           | Mohali             |
| 34                  | Jaipur             |
| Rajasthan 35        | Jodhpur            |
| 36 Sikkim           | Gangtok            |
| 37                  | Chennai            |
| 38                  | Coimbatore         |
| Tamilnadu 39        | Madurai            |
| 40                  | Tirunelveli        |
| 41                  | Trichy             |
| 42                  | Kanpur             |
| Uttar Pradesh 43    | Lucknow            |
| 44                  | Noida              |

## ANNEXURE - I

|   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         | Odisha        |
|       7 | Meerut            | Uttar Pradesh |
|       8 | Gorakhpur         | Uttar Pradesh |