The minister of state for electronics and information technology and skill development and entrepreneurship, Rajeev Chandrasekhar has inaugurated a Digital India startup hub at the Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) centre at Devanagere, Karnataka.
This STPI centre will be one amongst 63 in India and fifth in the country.

Chandrasekar said that the government’s emphasis has been on the growth of IT/ITES/ESDM in the newer cities and that it should not be confined to the metropolitan cities only.

The Karnataka government has provided 10,000 square feet buildup space in Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) Regional Centre, Davanagere for the STPI centre.

The centre has plug-n-play 102 seater facility, network operations centre (NOC), 16 seater conference room and 32 seater cafeteria and provision for providing high speed data communication facilities among other such facilities.