A target of IT (information technology) exports to the tune of Rs 3,200 crore in 2014-15 has been set by the State Government. This is an increase of about 33.33 per cent over the previous fiscal.
Software exports from the State were worth Rs 2,400 crore in 2013-14 compared to Rs 1,945 crore in the previous year, representing a 23-per cent increase. Some No IT companies had signed MoUs with the Government during 2012-13 and 2013-14 for development and export of IT products.
IT Minister Pranab Prakash Das told the State Assembly said in a written reply on Tuesday that the Government had signed MoUs with the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys and WIPRO for opening of their development centres, which are operating from Bhubaneswar.
The IT exports in 2013-14 included Rs 2,000 crore by the Software Technology Parks of India (STPI)-registered units and the balance Rs 400 crore by the TCS, which has its centre in a Special Economic Zone (SEZ).
Das said the Infosys continues to be a leading exporter of IT products from the State. It would operationalise its second campus in the State soon at the upcoming Infovalley complex on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar. At its second development centre, the company intends to start with a headcount of 1,000. The company has been allotted about 50 acres of land in the Infovalley, which is being developed by the Odisha Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (Idco).
The State Government has framed a new ICT (information and communication technology) Policy-2014, envisaging a gross ICT turnover (including exports of software and IT services, electronic system design & manufacturing, domestic consumption and training) of $4 billion (about Rs 24,000 crore) by 2020, the Minister added.