PATNA: In the news for many a positive change, Bihar is set to add another feather to its cap in the form of its first software technology park (STP). Located in Patna, the park — 49th of its kind in the country — will have facilities to accommodate around ten small and medium level software firms. Chief minister Nitish Kumar will inaugurate the park on Friday at a function which will also be attended by Union minister of state for communication and information technology Shakeel Ahmed. A team of senior officials of the Software Technology Park of India (STPI), including director (east) P K Das and New Delhi-based senior director Omkar Rai reached Patna on Thursday to supervise the preparations for the inauguration. Earlier the state had just one regulatory office of the STPI and software exported from Bihar were routed through the STP located in Bhubaneswar. This did not allow the state to take credit for its contribution in the software exports from the country. “The park will have ready-to-use-facility for firms willing to set up their units in it,” S K Patnaik, office incharge of Patna STP, told TOI on Thursday. He said the park will offer facilities like computers, internet connection and uninterrupted power supply at a nominal rate. The building of the park has already been completed and additional facilities would be in place within a month’s time. “Though this park can accommodate only small and medium level software firms, it can provide a launching pad to entrepreneurs for setting up larger firms,” Patnaik added. He hoped the park would not face much problem as far as optimum utilisation of the facilities is concerned since Bihar has as many as 11 registered software export firms. It was in early 1990s that the then secretary of department of electronics, government of India, N Vittal, came up with the concept of STPI with a view to promoting software exports from the country. The Union government also announced major sops for software firms willing to use the facilities provided in the STPs. Bihar also tried to catch the software promotion bus and the then state government approached the Centre for setting up an STP in the state. Vittal came to Patna in 1992 and asked the state government to provide land for the park. The state government, however, developed cold feet after that and land could not be provided which resulted in the transfer of the proposed software park from Patna to Bhubaneswar. Things, however, started to look up once again during the President’s rule in the state in 2005 when a fund of Rs 1 crore and a three-acre plot were given by the state government for the park. The state government also provided space for an STPI regulatory office in the BISCOMAUN building and BELTRON was authorised to set up necessary infrastructure for efficient running of this regulatory office.
Friday, February 22, 2008
Bihar first step in software export
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yes i do agree with the writer's view. today need is to create opportunities in Bihar. biharies may be labourers but not destined to be slaves, so why should we run away from the opportunities?
we are too a part of a country "India". we are fighters and know how to establish "Indianism" for Biharis but no with the way what is happening in Maharashtra.
It is very unfortunate for all Bihari’s except corrupt Politicians and Beaurocrats that since 2002 we are dreaming of IT Park.
These politicians will just do announcement and inauguration. Later on things will be thrown out in cold box. The fact is that these bullshit politicians hardly understand the value of IT Park. I guess in the regime of these corrupt politicians IT Park in Patna will never come up. It's my bad luck that Being Bihari I cannot work in Bihar and I am settled far away in USA. Because of these kinds of politicians our country was in the hand of British people for a long time. Shame on all crooked politicians of India.
It is very unfortunate for all Bihari’s except corrupt Politicians and Beaurocrats that since 2002 we are dreaming of IT Park.
These politicians will just do announcement and inauguration. Later on things will be thrown out in cold box. The fact is that these bullshit politicians hardly understand the value of IT Park. I guess in the regime of these corrupt politicians IT Park in Patna will never come up. It's my bad luck that Being Bihari I cannot work in Bihar and I am settled far away in USA. Because of these kinds of politicians our country was in the hand of British people for a long time. Shame on all crooked politicians of India.
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