Deftronics’17: Setting the pace for Make-in-India in the Strategic sector!
A stable government, a popular PM – and a unique strategy for boosting the economy…Make-In-India is the clarion call which is pulling together investments in the strategic sector. I looked at the black boxes made in SLN Technologies – my … Continued
Startup Wave in the Jaat Land!
We met the Manav Rachna academic team, Dr Umesh Dutta and Dr Bindu , at the 11th August MEITY – IESA workshop on the Iesa Innovation Initiative roll out. And – on Prof Umesh’s invitation – I visited Manav Rachna … Continued
Flexi-tronics 2017 – hope for a smart future…
Speaking at the Flexitronics 2017, a well –attended academia-industry conclave on Flexible Electronics here in the national capital, Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity), Mr Ajay Kumar said the flexible electronics is a new age … Continued
My NAVIC Presentation …
An India GPS for India…ISRO’s world class space program has the promise of realizing an India global positioning system with the operational name NAVIC or Navigation for Indian Constellation. This presentation, prepared in the context of a stakeholder meet organized … Continued
Navigating NAVIC …an Indian GPS for India..
IESA hosts industry-ISRO-MEITy stakeholder meet to anchor a plan to enable NAVIC for the Indian Automotive Sector In April 2016, with the launch of it’s 7th statellite, IRNSS -1G , the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System with the operational name … Continued
ONE NATION, ONE TAX – A GAME-CHANGER CALLED ‘GST’
I attended the FICCI 3 day workshop on GST over this weekend. Industry colleagues were all discussing the potent impact of the GST on the economy. We had a number of questions to ask the representatives from GSTN and the … Continued
4 Point Notes – Learnings from Display week 17, Megatrends in Display Fabs…and how India can benefit!
The excitement at Display week’17 was at sharp contrast to the previous years. Contrary to expectations, the Display industry had been doing very well, viz, Display sector was turning 20%+ gross margins ..The Display Panel Stock Index by DSCC has … Continued
Neutralizing blind-spots
In the clash between the human need for maximising benefits vs and maximizing self-esteem, the tendency to dilute the internal metrics of ethics to benefit ourselves is a common game that we indulge ourselves in. From the accounting malpractises of … Continued
Teaming up with TEEMA – Building the Taiwan outreach
Attended a Taiwan-India outreach program board level 20 member delegation led by Mr. T.C. Guo, Chairman, Taiwan Electrical and Electronics Manufacturers Association (TEEMA). Other eminent leaders from Taiwan included His Excellency, CK Tien, Ambassador of Taiwan and Mei-Hua Wang, Vice … Continued