New Delhi: IT services exports from STPI-registered units have crossed Rs 9 lakh crore in the 2024 financial year, a senior official said on Wednesday.
Speaking on the 33rd Foundation Day of Software Technology Parks of India, Director General Arvind Gupta announced an initiative towards developing India's sovereign cloud journey under the brand name 'Ananta', a cloud built by Indians for Indians. There will be hyperscale cloud.
In addition to traditional compute infrastructure services (IaaS), Ananta will also provide PaaS, SaaS, and GPU-based services.
Gupta said, “STPI has played a very important and significant role in taking the IT industry to this level. Exports from STPI registered units have also reached Rs 9.19 lakh crore.,
In the first year of its establishment in 1991, STPI registered units reported exports worth Rs 17 crore.
At the event STPI signed an MoU with Sabudh Foundation to create skill-development initiatives and nurture the entrepreneurial training ecosystem in DeepTech for engineering graduates.
An MoU was exchanged between STPINEXT Initiative and DBS Bank India with the aim of strengthening the tech startup ecosystem in India.
Gupta said that STPI now has 65 centres, out of which 57 centers are in Tier 2, Tier 3 cities.
“The (IT) ministry has ordered us to expand entrepreneurship, expand IT-ITES industries to tier 2, tier 3 cities.As a result, we have 55 centers across the country in tier 2 and tier 3 cities. “A lot of employment has been generated, a lot of revenue has been generated and there has been a shift of BPOs to tier 2 and tier 3 cities,” Gupta said.
He said STPI has created 24 centers for entrepreneurship across the country, which are domain-specific and it is nurturing more than 1,000 startups in the country.
“Start-ups need a lot of cloud services. So we are also going to launch a platform in PPP mode with Yota.It will be called Ananta, where we can provide cloud services to start-ups, small IT industries. This will help them develop deep technology products, Gupta said.''
Speaking on the 33rd Foundation Day of Software Technology Parks of India, Director General Arvind Gupta announced an initiative towards developing India's sovereign cloud journey under the brand name 'Ananta', a cloud built by Indians for Indians. There will be hyperscale cloud.
In addition to traditional compute infrastructure services (IaaS), Ananta will also provide PaaS, SaaS, and GPU-based services.
Gupta said, “STPI has played a very important and significant role in taking the IT industry to this level. Exports from STPI registered units have also reached Rs 9.19 lakh crore.,
In the first year of its establishment in 1991, STPI registered units reported exports worth Rs 17 crore.
At the event STPI signed an MoU with Sabudh Foundation to create skill-development initiatives and nurture the entrepreneurial training ecosystem in DeepTech for engineering graduates.
An MoU was exchanged between STPINEXT Initiative and DBS Bank India with the aim of strengthening the tech startup ecosystem in India.
Gupta said that STPI now has 65 centres, out of which 57 centers are in Tier 2, Tier 3 cities.
“The (IT) ministry has ordered us to expand entrepreneurship, expand IT-ITES industries to tier 2, tier 3 cities.As a result, we have 55 centers across the country in tier 2 and tier 3 cities. “A lot of employment has been generated, a lot of revenue has been generated and there has been a shift of BPOs to tier 2 and tier 3 cities,” Gupta said.
He said STPI has created 24 centers for entrepreneurship across the country, which are domain-specific and it is nurturing more than 1,000 startups in the country.
“Start-ups need a lot of cloud services. So we are also going to launch a platform in PPP mode with Yota.It will be called Ananta, where we can provide cloud services to start-ups, small IT industries. This will help them develop deep technology products, Gupta said.''
