Berhampur STPI to be operational soon

A software park, set up under the aegis of Software Technology Park of India (STPI) at Ambapua on the outskirt of Berhampur, is likely to be fully operational soon.

While a local IT firm, with about 100 employees, has already stared its operation in this park, some more south-based software companies have shown interest to open their units there, a senior officer of IT department said.

“We have invited some reputed IT companies to open their units in Bderhampur STPI centre, but they are yet to give any firm commitment”, said Manas Panda, additional director, STPI.The Berhampur STPI centre is the third such institute in the state after Bhubaneswar and Rourkela. The government proposes to establsih another STPI centre at Balasore.  The Berhampur complex was set up by STPI, an autonomous body under the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), on 3 acres of land at the outskirt of the city at an investment of Rs 5 crore. The state government had provided the land free of cost. The chief minister Naveen Patnaik laid the foundation stone for the project on December 13, 2006.

Panda said, STPI will work closely with the state government for promotion of software exports from this centre after it becomes fully operational.

“The main objective is to make the region one of the preferred IT destinations for IT companies keen to come to the state and help create job opportunities for the technical educated youths”, he added.