STPI Durgapur center was established in the year 2004 with the objective of encouraging, promoting and boosting software exports from Tier-II city (Durgapur region) of West Bengal. The center has infrastructure and manpower to provide STP/EHTP statutory services, Incubation services, Datacom services, NOC operations and PMC activities. Durgapur being a trade as well as an educational hub has great potential to become IT hub in the state of West Bengal.
Durgapur is a classy place for school level education. A large number of excellent educational institutions exist in the city. College level education was once qualitatively inferior and limited for a city like Durgapur. However, engineering colleges like BC Roy Engineering, Durgapur Institute of Advanced Technology and Management which is better known as DIATM, Bengal Engineering among others have been set up in and around Durgapur which has created a well-oiled educational industry. NIT, Durgapur, previously RE College is a premier institution and pride of the city.
Durgapur is located in the district of Paschim Bardhaman, in West Bengal. It is a well-planned industrial city on the banks of the river Damodar. It lies on the main railway line connecting Kolkata and New Delhi, thus being extremely well connected to both of the above cities. It takes about 2.5 hours by express train to reach Kolkata and an overnight journey to reach Delhi. Kazi Nazrul Islam Airport is a greenfield airport located at Andal, Paschim Bardhaman, West Bengal, India. It is named after Bengali poet Kazi Nazrul Islam and serves the twin city of Durgapur and Asansol.
Being an industrial city, Durgapur as such, has very little to offer to the casual tourist. The main tourist attraction is the Durgapur Barrage over the Damodar river. It is most beautiful during the monsoons, when the river is swollen. The gardens around it are a good place to picnic. The Kumarmangalam Park in the Steel Township with its artificial lakes and small hills is another attraction for picnickers and joggers.
Durgapur is fast emerging as an IT-Hub, the alternative destination to Kolkata for InfoTech companies. Durgapur already have good infrastructure and their modern amenities for people who work in the IT-Park. Durgapur is one among the five satellites IT-Hubs. Durgapur have been identified as city that can emerge as preferred destinations for software development and outsourcing companies. This small town is able to attract a large number of Indian and international IT firms.
A. SoftLink Services at STPI Durgapur
SoftLINK is an internet service developed specially to cater to the needs of the IT industry. The Internet represents one of the most successful examples of the benefits of sustained investment and commitment to research and development of information infrastructure.
SoftLINK is a service offering Leased Internet access having its own Quality of Service Parameters. This service was launched to cater to the rising needs of the industry for quality and committed service. SoftLINK Services have found a large customer base.
STPI offers high-speed Internet Leased Line Service at competitive rates. This service has been catering the needs of the IT industry and provides high-speed, dedicated Internet access with quality and reliability. 24*7*365 technical support, handled by a well-qualified technical team. Online bandwidth statistics allow Customers to monitor the usage and help them forecast future requirements. Service Level Agreement (SLA) for its internet network guarantees uptime of more than 99.5%.
Benefits
- Network Redundancy at all levels (i.e., last mile, router, switch and connectivity to Internet gateway on transmission level)
- Robust Network with multi-homed gateway
- IPv6 compliance
- 24x7x365 technical support, handled by well-qualified technical team
- Online bandwidth statistics to monitor the usage and enable customer to forecast future requirements
- Service Level Agreement (SLA) uptime of more than 99.5%
- Bandwidth on Demand (BoD) service for the existing Internet Leased Line Service customers
B. Incubation Services at STPI Durgapur
STPI Durgapur center has state-of-the-art Incubation Facility to encourage Small and Medium scale Enterprises (SMEs) to promote and motivate entrepreneurs in the field of IT/ITES in this region. STPI-Durgapur houses the first of its kind 'Incubation Center' designed for startup companies with 1000 sq. ft. furnished infrastructure.
Facilities available at STPI-Durgapur Incubation Centre
- STPI - Durgapur has two incubation rooms with a floor area of approx. 500 Sq. Ft. each
- Total 40 nos. Plug-n-Play seats available
- 24-hour high speed leased line connectivity
- Switched Local Area Network
- Fully air-conditioned rooms
- Parallel UPS-System of adequate capacity for uninterrupted power supply
- Backup power supply through DG-Set
- Conference room facility with 8 seats, available on request
- 24 hours physical security
- 24-hour CCTV surveillance
