STPI Generates 2.98 Lakh Jobs In Non-Metros Till March 2025: Vaishnaw

The Software Technology Park of India (STPI) has created around 2.98 lakh jobs in non-metro cities till March 31, 2025, the government informed the Parliament on Wednesday.

“The STPI registered units in non-metro cities reported 2,98,250 new employment opportunities (as of March 2025). Startups from non-metro areas, supported under the CoEs and the Next Generation Incubation Scheme (NGIS), have reported about 9,800 jobs,” Union Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha.

Established in 1991, the STPI, a premier science and technology organisation under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), provides essential support to scale up the IT & IT-enabled services in tier 2 and tier 3 cities in the country.

Of the total 68 STPI centres pan-India, 60 are located in tier-2 and tier-3 cities, and it has established nine new incubation centres in the last five years, including in Darbhanga, Jajpur, Koraput, Bhagalpur, Kochi, Davenagere, Kohima, Meerut, and Bhopal.

The STPI has also established 15 Centres of Excellence (CoEs) in the past five years in domains such as emerging tech, blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT) in agriculture and AI/ML, AR/VR, industrial automation, industrial robotics, among others, bringing the total to 24 CoEs.

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