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'India's exports from STP rising at 8-10 pc yearly'
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Sujit Chakraborty | 29 Sep, 2014
Country's exports from the Software Technology Parks (STP) across India are
rising at a pace of 8 to 10 percent annually and would further increase
in the upcoming years as the industry spreads across the country, a
senior sector official said.
"There are huge software technology
markets across the world and India's export prospect from the sector is
extremely vivid," Software Technology Park of India (STPI) Director
Prabir Kumar Das told agency.
"Currently India's yearly export
growth from the software technology is 8 to 10 percent. After setting of
under construction STPs in different states of the country, the export
growth would be at much higher speed."
Das said the overall
exports increased from Rs.226,712 crore in 2011-12 to Rs.251,498 crore
in 2012-13 and the overseas trade further increased to Rs.275,000 in the
2013-14.
Karnataka, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu,
Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Kerala, Odisha and Delhi are the
leading ten states in India in software export.
The STPI, an
autonomous society of the union ministry of communications and
information technology, was set up in 1991 to implement the STP scheme
and to promote software exports by providing infrastructure facilities
including high speed data communication (HSDC) links.
It has so
far set up STPs in 53 centres across India. STPs are being set up or
already commissioned six - Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Mizoram
and Tripura - of the eight northeastern states. They will be set up in
Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland and preliminary works for the purpose are
on.
The STPIs has been providing statutory and other promotional
services to the exporters by implementing STP and electronics and
hardware technology parks (EHTP) schemes.
Noting the global IT market was constantly growing, Das said that India cannot remain at the rear.
"IT
is now not only the common men's tools, but it also boosting a lot to
crores of micro, small and medium enterprises besides the big
industries," he added.
He said following the taming of the
decades-old terrorism in the northeastern states, the STPs in the region
would join the country's leading states in software technology exports.
"Supported
by the STPI, the STPs in the northeastern region would also play an
important role in solving the educated unemployment problem of the
region," he said, noting that in Tripura alone, more than 300 B.Tech and
M.Tech students in computer science and engineering are passing out
from different institutions and around 1,000 students are undergoing
different IT courses.
According to an official document, STP
scheme, which is a 100 percent export-oriented plan, has attracted many
entrepreneurs in the area of software and services. Until March this
year, over 5,000 units were operative out of which 4,200 units have
exported software.
Das had signed an MOU with the Tripura
information technology department Sep 25 to set up a STP in Agartala at a
cost of Rs.43 crore.
"The under commission STP in Tripura would
further boost the information technology industries in the
industry-starved northeastern region," said Tripura Industrial
Development Corporation (TIDC) chairman Jitendra Chaudhury.
The
TIDC is the nodal body of the STP while Hyderabad-based Avon
Technologies India Private limited is the consultant and Mumbai-based
D.K. Infrastructure Private Limited is executing the project.
"The
STPI has prepared the detailed project report and would provide the
entire fund of Rs.43 crore for the STP," said Chaudhury, adding it would
provide all sorts of facilities for the growth of IT industries in the
northeastern region for the purpose of socio-economic development.
"The
STP would help the authorities to reach out to citizens with more
efficient and productive government services," he said adding that it
would serve as an important tool to create maximum job opportunities as
well as absorbing a large portion of the educated unemployed.
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