Award for Mysore IT firm

Software Paradigms (India) has been awarded the certificate of excellence in IT exports from the secondary city "" Mysore for 2004-05. The Mysore-based IT unit has won the award for the second year.

The software export industry has grown by 62 per cent in Karnataka, contributing exports to the tune of Rs 27,600 crore during 2004-05. The state has contributed 36 per cent of the total software exports from the country. A 100 per cent export-oriented unit, SPI has been functioning from 1997 as an offshore centre of Software Paradigms International, USA.

Chief minister Dharam Singh presented the award to SPI CEO Siddhartha Mookerji in Bangalore in the presence of Union minister for communication & IT Dayanidhi Maran.