By Tricitynews Reporter
Chandigarh
25th October:- Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, Ravi
Shankar Parsad said that the mission of Digital India is to empower common man
in the country.
Unveiling the Incubation
Facility of STPI Mohali at the JW Marriott, the Union Minister embarked hat
digital India is for the poor and underprivileged in the society and directed
STPI Mohali to provide special facilities to promote entrepreneurship amongst
dalit youth.
On the request of the
Union Minister for Food Processing Industry Harsimrat Kaur Badal, to make STPI
Moali to innovate IT solutions for the farmers, Ravi Shankar Parsad endorsed
the idea and assured that STPI Mohali would become the Centre for Innovation
for the Farmers too, and should become a beacon of Digital India.
Listing out the growth in
diverse areas of country’s economy on the digital front, the union minister
commended STPI for helping the IT industry grow and create newer employment
opportunities, reaching 3 lakh crores in software exports out of which Rs. 3
lakh crores is being generated from the Tier II cities.
Digital India, Startup
India, Standup India are the programmes that are transforming our country and
empowering the people having reached phenomenal growth reaching 103 crore
mobile phones, issuing 105 crores adhaar cards, 40 crores broadband connections
expected to reach 50 crores by next year, and 27 crores smart phones, he added.
STPI shall very soon be
laying the foundation stone of its next centre in Amritsar to help the smaller
cities become part of the digital India movement. He hoped that the country which had very few mobile phone
manufacturing units has attracted fresh FDI and there are over 40 such
manufacturing units in the country, and hoped that manufacturing facility for
mobiles would come up in Punjab too.
Union Minister for Food
Processing Industry Harsimrat
Kaur Badal, said that opening of this incubation facility for
startups in Mohali is a historic event, and the infrastructure facilities to
promote education, health, transportation, etc. in the State is changing the
face of Punjab.
Punjab is an agrarian
state, she said, and requires the innovative IT solutions to help the farmers
cope up with the vagaries of Nature and reduce their dependence on weather.
Minister of State for
Social Justice and Empowerment, Vijay Sampla, said that Punjab has largest
number of scheduled castes and tribes who need to be empowered and STPI can
contribute immensely.
Earlier in the day Union
Minister Ravi Shankar Parsad along with Vijay Sampla, and Adaish Partap Singh
Kairon, inaugurated a state-of-the-art incubation facility of Software
Technology Parks of India (STPI), at Mohali and inspected the data centre and
other facilities.
The largest incubation
facility for the startups amongst the Tier-II cities, and the only with such a
big data centre in the country, would ramp up the region’s march towards one of
the most favored IT destination in the country.
Spread over nearly 1.40
lakh square feet of built-up space, the incubation facility would go a long way
in encouraging new IT/ITES entrepreneurs and startups to make it a hub for
entrepreneurship. This would provide a
major boost to the IT companies in Punjab to enable them to host their software
applications and data, securely and safely at a fraction of the cost, instead
of their own dedicated data centre. The building also houses
Network Operation Centre equipped with infrastructure to ensure networking
services, firewalls, servers, routers, and 100% redundant bandwidth for the
users in the building.
The incubation facility
has a dedicated Tier-III standard world-class data centre of 160 rack capacity
available to startups to use it for big data analytics and software as a
service, informed Dr Omkar Rai,
Director General of STPI, he informed.
Over 60,000 sqft area
from third to the sixth floors provides warm shells and 100-seats Plug-and-Play
modular office space for the startups to operationalize their businesses within
hours.
The top floor houses
common facilities including a 100-seats auditorium, cafeteria, board rooms and
meeting halls.
The facility compliments
the startup ecosystem that STPI had been encouraging in the region and intends
to create robust and active partnership amongst academia, research
institutions, industry, professional bodies, investors and financial
institutions, to help the startups grow.
Dr Omkar Rai informed that
the Incubation Facility is the only building in the region which is expected to
get 5-star rating as the Green Building by GRIHA, and the Ministry of
Environment has already recognized STPI Mohali with an award for “Exemplary
Demonstration of Energy Management.
Rajneesh Agarwal, Director, STPI Mohali said
that the incubation facility has many unique features and is perhaps the first
smart-building with automated controls for temperature, lighting, power
consumption monitoring, uninterrupted power supply for 24x7 operations, and precision
air-conditioning.
