Country's 51st STPI inaugurated at Berhampur

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Santanu Barad

21 August, 2010

COUNTRY'S 51^st Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) was inaugurated at Berhampur on Friday. On this occasion, Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik hoped that it will facilitate the local Information Technology entrepreneurships.

While speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the STPI at Ambapua on the outskirts of Berhampur city, CM Naveen Patnaik said that it would add to potential opportunities and as a destination for IT in the region, adding, that the park would be helpful in developing the IT infrastructure in the region.

Naveen also said that the IT industry has progressed a lot in Orissa in the last five years after the boom in the country. The state is also a leading state in implementing the e-governance programme, he said, adding that the STPI at Berhampur would provide excellent infrastructure for the youths and experts of the region.

Union Minister of state for Communication and Information Technology, Sachin Pilot also attended the inaugural ceremony and said that it was a challenge for the youth. This STPI at Berhampur is the 51^st in the country and as many as 44 such parks are located in the small cities.

Pilot informed that funds had been allocated to make it possible for the people to download in all the 22 official languages of the country. Common Service Centers would be opened in 80,000 villages of the country on PPP mode. 8,000 such centres have been sanctioned for Odisha and these centres would be nucleus of activities in the IT sector particularly in the villages, said Sachin.

Notably, STPI Berhampur happens to be the third such park in Odisha after Bhubaneswar and Rourkela.