The Odisha Government on Saturday signed an MoU with the Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) for setting up of four more centres in the State.
The new centres would come up at Angul, Jajpur, Koraput and Sambalpur. With this, the number of such centres will rise to eight in the State which is highest in the country.
The existing centres are at Bhubaneswar, Rourkela, Brahmapur and Baleswar.
“The proposed STPI centres would act as resource centres for IT/ITES and ESDM sector by offering general infrastructural facilities like ready to use Incubation Hi-Speed Data connectivity and other amenities required export of software and services. The incubation facility will be available for entrepreneurs, specially catering to the need of start-up/MSMEs/SMEs to kick start their business without any hassles,” said Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. Notably, IT exports from the State were reported at Rs 2,900 crore during the year 2015-16. Around 90per cent of software exports from the State .