BERHAMPUR: The third centre of the Software Technology Park of India in Orissa is going to be inaugurated in Berhampur. According to sources it is scheduled to be inaugurated by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in the last week of February. After Bhubaneswar and Rourkela it would be the third STPI in Orissa. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Orissa government and the STPI in July 2005. Mr. Patnaik had laid its foundation stone in December 2006 during the boom period of IT sector. Ironically the centre is slated for inauguration while global recession has started to impact the IT sector.
There are expectations that due to low infrastructure cost in a city like Berhampur, IT companies would take advantage of the centre and establish their units here. At present the STPI has around 125 IT units registered with its other two units.
This centre would also provide technological incubation infrastructure facility to new small-scale IT entrepreneurs. These entrepreneurs would be provided ready-to-use space at an affordable cost by the Berhampur STPI. These entrepreneurs as well as the IT units to come up in Berhampur would also be eligible to get consultancy facility from the STPI. It would have an internal engineering resource force to offer consultancy services in key aspects of IT industry. A state of the art Infopark would also be established adjacent to the STPI.
The Hindu
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