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Technology Parks of India
STP
scheme is implemented through Software Technology Parks
of India (STPI), which is an autonomous Society of Department
of Electronics, Govt of India. The STPI centres provide effective
support to the units for clearances under the scheme. For
easy implementation and all India coverage India has been
divided in to different jurisdictional areas. Each Jurisdictional
area is taken care by a nodal office of STPI.
The SoftNET provides International data communication
services using the International Gateways of STPI.
In Jaipur an IBS 'C' Earth Station is functional at
Exports promotion industrial park, which is serving as an
International Gateway to provide SoftNET services in and around
Jaipur.
The International helps in connecting to any part of world
based on requirement and provides broadband connectivity.
The scheme in general provides various incentives in terms
of duty exemption etc. Govt. of India has tried to provide
an investor friendly scheme that has been an attraction for
major software developing and exporting companies.
Today there are approximately 1000 units operating under STP
scheme spread all over India. Government of India has declared
software as one of the extreme focus area for growth of exports.
Therefore, Govt of India announced a special scheme to promote
software exports
One of the objectives of Software Technology Parks of India
is to provide effective data communication facilities to the
esteemed Software Exporters. In persuasion of this objective
the STPI established its own gateways at its nodal centres
located in different parts of the country.
The services at the Gateway are provisioned on demand by a
professional team. There is a Network Operations Centre
(NOC) collocated with the gateway itself. The NOC is operational
24 hrs and provides effective services for network fault restorations.
The Software exporters can use this Gateway to get the Datacom
Services of STPI in order to get connected to the world .The
Gateway is also serving the Internet Services of STPI in this
part of the country. The major ISPs can look forward to get
services of this Gateway to get connected on the Internet
backbone.
One of the objectives of Software Technology Parks of India
is to provide effective data communication facilities to the
esteemed Software Exporters. In persuasion of this objective
the STPI established its own gateways at its nodal centres
located in different parts of the country.
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