Union Oil and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Union Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad inaugurated a Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) centre in Bhubaneswar. The inauguration of STPI Electronics and IT Enclave and Data Centre of Directorate of Hydrocarbons is seen as a part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s initiative Digital India. Speaking at the event, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said, “There is a need to strike a balance among data availability, data utility, data innovation, data enterprise and data privacy.”