MSME Units in IT Sector to Start Manufacturing

BHUBANESWAR, INDIA - Mr. R.N. Palai, I.T.S. Special Secretary Department of Information & Technology, Government of Odisha while emphasising on the growing prospects of the ESDM sector in the State of Odisha, urged the MSME units in the IT sector to come forward and take up manufacturing activities ensuring all the required support from the government. This he spoke while delivering the inaugural address at the ITCO 2015, a colloquium on “IT Sector in Odisha – The Way Forward”, organised by World Trade Centre Bhubaneswar in association with IT Association of Odisha (ITAO) on 5th March 2015. Mr.Palai spoke about the upcoming info valley project and the various other efforts being taken by the Government not only to support the software industry but also to develop the ESDM sector in the State. He highly appreciated and thanked World Trade Centre Bhubaneswar for having organized this colloquium at a very right point of time as with the ICT policy coming into place very recently it was important for the stakeholders to get into such discussions forums.
The colloquium was organized with an objective of getting together experts from the sector to speak to the industry on how they could explore the latest and non-conventional utilities of Information Technology. The colloquium also aimed at bringing out the highlights of the ICT policy, which the State Government of Odisha has come out in 2014.
Mr. Rajiv Vaishnav, Vice President, NASSCOM spoke on the need to develop entrepreneurship in IT sector. He emphasised on developing a good eco system and incubation centres for the upcoming entrepreneurs. He highlighted on the existing potentials of the sector in the state and need for the stake holders to come together to demand as well contribute for the development of the sector.
Mr.Tu Fu, Han Director, TAITRA, Kolkata gave an overview of the IT industry in Taiwan. He explained the products offered by Taiwan for the IT sector and how they explored the international markets. He offered support to the entrepreneurs who wanted to get into manufacturing by creating good and sustainable business linkages so as to support the MAKE IN INDIA concept through it.
Col.(Rtd.) A.K. Nath, Executive Director, C-DAC, Kolkata Centre gave very vital inputs on the non-conventional and innovative ways in which IT services could be developed and intervened. He shared the technology developments of C-DAC Kolkata centre laying the importance of innovations so that IT services could be utilized and reached to the grass root level people like the farmers, different abled people etc. He in his presentation demonstrated few technologies which would enable to solve and simplify the basic necessities of a society.
Mr.Brahmananda Rath, Senior Consultant, State E-governance mission team, presented the highlights of the ICT Policy 2014, GoO. He deliberated on the salient features, objectives, incentives and benefits being offered by the government to the entrepreneurs in the sector.
Earlier Mr. A.O. Kuruvilla, Deputy Director, World Trade Centre Mumbai welcomed the participants giving an overview about the growing importance and contribution of the IT sector to the economic development of Odisha as well as in India as a whole.
A lively Q&A session created much value to the seminar. Mr.Arun Dey, President, ITAO proposed the vote of thanks. The colloquium was attended by large number of participants from the IT sector of the State.

PHOTO: Mr. R.N. Palai, I.T.S. Special Secretary Department of Information & Technology, Government of Odisha delivering the inaugural address. On his left is Mr. Rajiv Vaishnav, Vice President, NASSCOM.

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