PINAKI MAJUMDAR
Jamshedpur, Sept 7: The much-awaited Adityapur-based software technology park became operational from today.
The software technology park will promise an action-packed start for the steel city’s industrial satellite.
The ambitious project is hardly 300 metres away from the Electronic Manufacturing Cluster (EMC) along the Tata-Kandra Road.
Notably, work on both projects had started on a war footing as Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) had set a fresh deadline to complete infrastructure for the software technology park by December 2018.
But, the project got delayed due to various reasons one of them being the Covid-19 pandemic.
Sources said apart from several other software firms, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) would also start its operation at the software technology park.
The foundation stone for the ambitious STPI project worth over Rs 25 crore near Adityapur auto cluster design lab on Tata-Kandra Road was laid in 2015.
The land for the project spread over a 70,000 sqft area was provided by JIADA (formerly AIADA).
IT and allied companies from Bangalore and other parts of the country will get space at subsidised rates at the software park.
Adityapur already houses an auto cluster that benefits 700 entrepreneurs.
President of Adityapur Small Industries Association (ASIA) Inder Agarwal praised the software technology park project.
“Adityapur gives industries a good ecosystem and is ideally located to help entrepreneurs export their products,” Agarwal said.
