crore in FY 2010–11. The state with the largest export contribution was Karnataka followed by Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Haryana and Telangana. STPI has a presence in many major cities of India including the cities of Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Trivandrum, Kanpur, Patna, Bhubaneswar, Kolkata, Mumbai, Nagpur, Warangal, Gandhinagar, Kakinada, Lucknow, Pune, Surat, Tirupati, Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam. Besides regulating the STP scheme, STPI centers provide a variety of services including high-speed data communication, incubation facilities, consultancy, network monitoring, data centers and data hosting. STPI provides physical hosting for the National Internet Exchange of India. The tax benefits under the Income Tax Act Section 10A applicable to STP units has expired since March 2011. While the Government has chosen not to extend the Sec 10A benefits against the demand by the IT units, most of the STP registered SME units will be affected, and now will have to pay income tax on profits earned from exports. A new incentive scheme for IT and ITES companies is under discussion. It will help dispersal of IT industry in smaller cities and also support STPI-registered units which have not come under SEZs as well as other units which are not covered under any incentive scheme. This incentive scheme is seen as an alternate scheme to compensate the STPI units, but the same would be restricted to those units located in tier II and III cities. Exports Awards by STPI STPI in association with Indian state governments provides Exports Awards. Exports by STPI registered IT/ITeS units The overall exports done by STPI registered IT/ITeS units increased from 2,73,313 crore in 2013–14 to 2,93,797 crore in 2014–15, an increase of 7.49%. The bifurcation of 2014-15 exports is as follows: Exports from units availing servicesunder STP scheme (under FTDR Act, 1992) is Rs 2,84,384.10 crore. Exports from units availing only Softex attestation services is Rs 9,412.40 crore. All figures in crores of INR Exports by EHTP units The exports made by EHTP units decreased by 26.35% from 27091.54 crore in 2013–14 to 19951.81 crore in 2014–15. References External links Official website Government agencies of India Software technology parks in India Government agencies established in 1991 1991 establishments in Delhi