The Software Technology Parks of India was created in 1991 with a vision to promote the export of software of the country and to promote the entrepreneurship in the field of ICT and also to give all kind of support to the software exporters, including the bandwidth and the setcom due to then exporters. STPI has played its role to promote the export of software form the country and looking at the figures, the exports from the country in the year 2014-15 has been in tune of $ 98.1 billion. Moreover, the sector has contributed more than nine per cent to the Indian GDP. In the IT sector, about three million engineers are directly employed and thereby creating around three types of indirect jobs for the countrymen. Every year, more than 2.5 lakh engineers are added in the workforce of the ICT sector across the country.
