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Andhra Pradesh first state to exhaust rural BPO quota

The state was allotted 2,200 seats under the India BPO promotion scheme

Andhra Pradesh first state to exhaust rural BPO quota
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Nirmalya Behera Bhubaneswar
Andhra Pradesh has emerged as the first state in the country to exhaust all the seats allocated to it under the India BPO promotion scheme (IBPS) for setting up business process outsourcing (BPO) units in rural areas.

The state was allotted 2,200 seats under the scheme, but with the rising demand from companies to create more seats an additional 850 have been allocated.

“The initial seats allotted to Andhra Pradesh have already been filled up. The response has been quite good. There is provision for over allocation in the scheme ,” said a senior official of Software Technology Parks of