The 29th foundation day of the Software Technology Park of India (STPI) was observed through online on Friday.
Odisha Skill Development Authority Chairman Subroto Bagchi, KIIT and KISS founder Dr Achyuta Samanta, MeitY secretary Ajay Prakash Sawhney, STPI DG Dr Omkar Rai, Meity special secretary Jyoti Arora and additional secretary Dr Rajendra Kumar and State Electronics &IT Secretary Manoj Kumar Mishra participated in the programme, among others.
Dr Samanta enlightened on how education is best tool to boost innovation and eradicate anything in the world. Bagchi articulated the glorious journey of the STPI during the last three decades and envisioned a great role to be played by STPI by 2050. Sawhney briefed on the initiatives of Government to meet the Covid crisis and congratulated STPI on its eventful successful journey.
STPI DG Dr Rai briefed about the STPI initiatives in the country.
So far, the STPI has established 60 centres in the country, including three in Odisha at Bhubaneswar, Rourkela and Brahmapur. A new STPI center at Baleswar would be operational soon. New STPIs have already been planned at Angul, Jajpur, Koraput (Jeypore) and Sambalpur.