India BPO Promotion Scheme (IBPS), envisaged under Digital India Programme, will offer incentives for establishment of 48,300 seaters in respect of BPO/ITES operations across the country with an outlay of ₹500 crore, Special Chief Secretary and IT Adviser to Chief Minister J.A. Chowdary said here on Tuesday.
Speaking at an awareness programme organised at Tech Hub by Software Technology Parks of India, he said the main objective of the scheme was to create jobs for 1.5 lakh persons. He said Andhra Pradesh had been able to create 3,050 jobs so far in allotment by setting up 16 BPO units across the State.
Stating that both the Centre and the State governments were keen on promoting digitisation and to encourage more BPO, KPO and analytics firms, mostly in the rural and semi-urban areas to create jobs, he said now bidding process was on for next round of allotment. The last date for submission of bids is Oct. 27.
He said the State government had decided to make Visakhapatnam the blockchain capital of India and declared that the blockchain conference to be held in the city on Oct. 9 and 10 would attract CEOs from financial technology companies from all over the world. STPI Joint Director M.P. Dubey said under India BPO Promotion Scheme ₹1 lakh incentive was being offered for creating each seat in addition to viability gap funding.
