Tripura slated for the Fifth Software Technology Park in North-East India

Tripura Industrial Development Corporation (TIDC) on 28 May 2012 announced to set up North-East India’s fifth Software Technology Park in Tripura. The project, supported by the Software Technology Park of India (STPI), will boost information technology in northeast India and to reach out to people of rural and remote areas with e-governance.

The entire cost of setting up the STP will be around 43 crore rupees. The decision to set up the STP would further boost the information technology industries in the industry-starved northeastern region. The TIDC is the nodal body of the STP.

The STP in Agartala would be the fifth information technology centre in northeast India after the Guwahati, Imphal, Gangtok and Aizawl STPs, which have either started functioning or are under construction.
STP facility will cater to the developmental needs of the northeastern region of the country. With its technological support the facility will help the authorities to reach out to citizens with more efficient and productive government services. The facility would also generate the employment opportunities for a large portion of the educated unemployed in the region.

STP, a perfect example of the public private partnership in India, is a project being run under the banner of STPI. The STPI authority is setting up STPs in the country since 1991 to encourage, promote and boost software exports from India besides expansion of the information technology infrastructure and software industry.