The Government has taken various initiatives to promote Information Technology (IT)/ IT enabled Services (ITeS) industry across the country, including small cities. Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), an autonomous society under Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), is instrumental in taking digital technologies across the country to drive the initiatives of the Government to the smaller towns.

Till date, 63 STPI centres have been set-up across the country, including five centres namely Durgapur, Haldia, Kharagpur, Kolkata and Siliguri in West Bengal and one at Patna in Bihar. Additionally, the Government has also approved 22 new STPI centres across the country, including two centres in Bihar at Bhagalpur and Darbhanga. State/UT-wise list of existing and approved STPI Centres given below:

Sate-wise list of existing STPI Centres

S. No	State	Centre Name
	Andhra Pradesh	Kakinada
		Tirupati
		Vijayawada
		Vizag
	Assam	Guwahati
	Bihar	Patna
	Chhattisgarh	Bhilai
	Gujarat	Gandhinagar
		Surat
	Haryana	Gurgaon
	Himachal Pradesh	Shimla
	Jammu and Kashmir	Jammu
		Srinagar
	Jharkhand	Ranchi
		Deoghar
	Karnataka	Bengaluru
		Hubli
		Mangalore
		Manipal
		Mysore
		Davangere
	Kerala	Thiruvananthapuram
	Madhya Pradesh	Gwalior
		Bhopal
		Indore
	Maharashtra	Aurangabad
		Kolhapur
		Nagpur
		Nasik
		Mumbai
		Pune
	Manipur	Imphal
	Meghalaya	Shillong
	Mizoram	Aizawl
	Odisha	Berhampur
		Bhubaneswar
		Rourkela
	Pondicherry	Pondicherry
	Punjab	Mohali
	Rajasthan	Jaipur
		Jodhpur
	Sikkim	Gangtok
	Tamil Nadu	Chennai
		Coimbatore
		Madurai
		Tirunelveli
		Trichy
	Telangana	Hyderabad
		Warangal
	Uttar Pradesh	Allahabad
		Kanpur
		Lucknow
		Noida
		Meerut
	Uttarakhand	Dehradun
	West Bengal	Durgapur
		Haldia
		Kharagpur
		Kolkata
		Siliguri
	Tripura	Agartala
	Goa	Goa
	Nagaland	Kohima

 

State-wise list of approved new STPI Centres

It has been endeavour of the Government to put in place a liberal and transparent policy for attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), wherein most of the sectors are open to FDI under the automatic route. As per extant Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) policy, 100 per cent FDI is allowed in IT sector under automatic route (except the land border sharing country with India) subject to applicable laws/regulations, security and other conditions. A total of Rs 3,56,303 crore FDI has been committed in Computer Software and Hardware during FY 2019-2022 and Rs 63,819 crore in the current FY 2022-2023 (till Dec, 2022).

The Government is implementing Software Technology parks of India (STP) Scheme through STPI, which is a 100 per cent export-oriented Scheme for the development and export of computer software, including export of professional services using communication links or physical media. The export by STPI registered IT/ ITeS Units is increasing on Y-o-Y basis and is stands at US $ 80.3 Billion in the FY 2021-22.

Further, National Policy on Software Products (NPSP) - 2019 has been notified by the Government to promote software product ecosystem in the country. In accordance with NPSP, the Government has approved the Next Generation Incubation Scheme (NGIS) with a budgetary outlay of Rs 95.03 crore to extend incubation facilities to tech start-ups in 12 STPI centres located in small cities including one incubation facility at Patna in Bihar.

The Government had also launched India BPO Promotion Scheme (IBPS) & North-East BPO Promotion Scheme (NEBPS) under the Digital India Programme with the aim to create employment opportunities and dispersal of IT/ITeS industry in small cities/towns by incentivise setting up of BPO/ITeS operations. The duration of IBPS and NEBPS was up to 31.03.2019 & 31.03.2020 respectively to invite new bids, however, disbursements may continue beyond this period. Under these schemes 246 units have set up BPO/ITeS operations across 27 States/UTs of the country providing direct employment to 52,065 persons.   

Further, Union Government has announced GENESIS (Gen-Next Support for Innovative Startups) to discover, support, grow and make successful startups in small cities with emphasis on collaborative engagement among startups, government and corporates for promoting digitisation based on the principals of inclusivity, accessibility, affordability, leading to growth in employment and economic outputs.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.

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