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STPI: The Beginning

STPI's role was more of an entrepreneurial role of working directly with software companies and working like a corporate. The role of STPI was of a service provider that could be leveraged by software companies.

Therein emerged three important factors that gave the necessary impetus to the concept. These were the newness of the business model, Internet infrastructure facilities and the government interface; all these brought a positive response from industry, especially the SME sector, which needed this support for their business to grow.

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The objectives of STPI is to enable overall growth of the IT industry and the combination to the growth of economy of the country.The present objectives even include Bio-IT facility.

The objectives of Software Technology Parks of India are :

To promote development of software and software services.
To provide statutory services to the exporters by implementing STP/EHTP Scheme.
To provide data communication services including various value added services both to IT industries and corporate houses.
To provide Project Management and Consultancy services both at national and international level.
To promote small and medium enterpreneurs by creating a conducive environment in the field of Information Technology.
To promote Bio-informatics/Bio-technology industries by providing infrastructural statutory support.

In 1990, the STPs were established through three separate autonomous societies at Pune, Bangalore and Bhubaneswar, which were later, merged in June 1991 into a single corporate entity and in quick succession STPIs at Noida, Gandhi Nagar, Hyderabad and Thiruvananthapuram were established. These STPs were equipped with dedicated earth station equipment for providing Data Communication links.

The erstwhile Department of Electronics, Govt. of India with the support of World Bank had carried out a study on the opportunities presented by the Global IT Industry. This study identified the factors, very essential for the growth of the Software Industry and also compared the potential of the countries competing in the Global Market. Some of the factors which needed improvement were clearly identified from the study and STPI focused in improving those factors.

International Communication is one such factor which needed much attention and India was factored -2 as against +8 factored to Ireland. This is one of the primary reasons why STPI took up the responsibility of improving the International Data Communication facilities exclusively for the Software Export Industry. Even though the intention was not to become an International Carrier, but because of the better quality of service provided by STPI and with a high rate of acceptance from the Industry, STPI's International Data Communication Services have grown much beyond anybody's imagination. STPI has truly emerged as an unconventional International carrier within a short span of time and developed relationships with 26 International carrier companies worldwide.

Since 1996, the State Governments' started taking a very proactive role in promoting the IT industry. After the Govt. of Karnataka came out with the first IT policy, many of the State Governments' followed suit. The success of STPI was not limited to the capital cities alone with STPI spreading it wings to secondary cities like Nagpur in Maharashtra and has,spread to as many as 46 cities in a short span of 4 years.

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