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India BPO Promotion Scheme

June 20 , 2018 2354 days 978 0
  • 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.

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