Indian Express Group has conferred Digital Icon Award to DG STPI Omkar Rai for his outstanding contribution towards supporting the growth of IT industry in the country and especially in the North Eastern region, in Technology Sabha conference in Guwahati.
His organisation Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) was set up in the year 1991 by the central government as an autonomous society for encouraging, promoting and boosting the software exports from India. Today, STPI plays equal role in promoting software development, hardware and R&D in India.
Rai has been spreading a silent IT intervention across the country in the form of creating necessary physical infrastructure and statutory support to state governments over the years step up STPI focus in the tier-II, tier-III cities and tough regions like North East.
Around 4.5 lakh square feet incubation space has been created across the country by STPI. Its technology parks are available in almost all the state in the country. In fact, some of the states like Odisha has more than 5 technology parks built with the support of STPI.
Under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India, STPI works for promotion of Indian IT industry, startups and job creation across the country. It maintains internal engineering resources to provide consulting, training and implementation services. Many state governments, small medium businesses (SMBs) and large corporates use its infrastructure in plug and play mode for offering IT services.
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