 "Odisha targets Rs 3,200 cr IT exports in FY15")
Software exports from the state was Rs 2400 crore in 2013-14 compared to Rs 1945 in the previous year, representing 23 per cent increase.
No IT companies have signed MoU (memorandum of understanding) with the government during 2012-13 and 2013-14 for the development and export of IT products. The growth of IT export last year was 23 per cent. IT export target for 2014-15 has been set at Rs 3200 crore ", Pranab Prakash Das, state IT minister, said in a written reply to the assembly.
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The state government had signed MoU with Tata Consultancy Services ( TCS), Infosys and Wipro for opening of their development centres, which are operating from Bhubaneswar, the minister said.
The IT exports in FY14 included Rs 2,000 crore by STPI (Software Technology Parks of India) registered units and the balance Rs 400 crore by TCS, India's largest IT firm, having its centre in a Special Economic Zone (SEZ).
Infosys, India's second largest IT services company continues to be the lead exporter of IT products from the state. The company will operationalise its second campus in the state soon at the upcoming Infovalley complex, on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar.
Infosys is the anchor tenant for the Infovalley project.
At at its second development centre, the company intends to start with a headcount of 1,000. The IT behemoth has been allotted about 50 acres of land in the Infovalley, which is being developed by Odisha Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (Idco).
The state government has framed a new ICT (information and communication technology) policy-2014, envisaging a gross ICT turnover (including exports of software and IT services, electronic system design & manufacturing, domestic consumption and training) of $4 billion (about Rs 24,000 crore) by 2020.