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Chandigarh: With software exports worth over Rs 1.52 lakh crore, the Millenium city of Gurugram, an economic capital of Haryana, is much ahead of the IT hubs of neighboring states of Punjab and Haryana, when it comes to business from Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) in the three states. Notably, besides leading the region with remarkable exports, the performance of companies operating in Gurugram had helped the centre to register more than the double of its growth in the past four years. In the year 2020-21, Gurugram had reported exports of Rs 20,140.46 crore, which have gone upto Rs 52,931.70 crore in 2023-24. Figures for the current financial year is yet to be compiled. Even during the past four years, the Gururam centes have registered a consistent growth. Gurugram has total of 16,361 square feet of space for incubation centres for 141 plug and play seats. Notably, the STPI centre of Mohali, which too had emerged as a IT hub of north India, has recorded the total exports of Rs 12,789.22 crore in the last five financial years, with maximum Rs 4,228.36 crore recorded in last financial year. However, it is much behind the records of Gurugram in Haryana. However, the Shimla centre of Himachal Pardesh has a long way to go, as this could do software exports worth Rs 30.88 in the past five financial years. The information came to light during Wednesday’s sitting of Lok Sabha, where Union minister for Electronics and Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw, shared the details about the software exports from various STPIs of India.

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