Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) is planning to expand its India BPO Promotion Scheme to 1 lakh seats from current 48,000 seats.
It will also set up 5th and India’s largest National data centre (NDC) in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh with capacity of 5 lakh virtual servers.
NDCs host government websites, services and apps, are currently operational at four locations Pune, Hyderabad, Delhi and Bhubaneswar.
India BPO Promotion Scheme (IBPS) was approved under Digital India Programme to incentivize BPO/IT- ITES operations sector in the country.
It was launched in 2014. The scheme aims to incentivize establishment of BPO firms and their extension to Tier II and Tier III cities (as per census 2011)
The Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), an autonomous society of MeitY is nodal implementing agency of the scheme.