Ravishankar Prasad lays foundation stone of STPI Amritsar

Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Parsad here today laid the foundation stone of the Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) which is to be built at an estimated cost of Rs 20 crore.
The Amritsar incubation centre, spread over 2.72 acres of land, will be fully furnished air conditioned three-storeyed with state-of-art Network Operation Centre (NOC), an STPI release said here.
The new facility would serve the IT/ITeS exporting units by offering modern infrastructural facility including incubation facilities, high speed data communication and connectivity and exports facilitation, creating new direct and indirect employment opportunities too.
This is part of the national initiative under Digital India programme so that the hardware and software industry grows in pace with the international developments and create newer employment opportunities as well as for the startups.

NOC shall be equipped with servers, routers, and 100 per cent redundant bandwidth and effective firewalls besides the conference facilities which shall also house the STPI's local administrative office, the release said.
Prasad had on October 25 inaugurated one of the biggest incubator facility at Mohali spread over 1.40 lakh sq ft of built up space at an estimated cost of Rs 60 crore.
The overall exports done by STPI registered IT/ITES units in the country increased from Rs 2,93,797 crore in 2014-15 to Rs 3,19,569 crore in 2015-16, an increase of 8.77 per cent, and the largest contribution has been from the STPIs setup in the Tier-II cities, the release said.