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Technology News Magazine REACH SOUTH INDIA TECHNOLOGY NEWS MAGAZINE Andhra Pradesh l Telangana l Tamilnadu l Pondicherry l Karnataka l Kerala Vol-10 Issue-04, Krishna, November - 2015, Pages-16, `40/- Bringing Channel Together ANDHRA PRADESH BECOMING MOBILE EDITORIAL MANUFACTURING CAPITAL OF INDIA EDITOR: Dinesh Shyam Sukha CO-ORDINATOR : Siddhi The state of Andhra Pradesh is fast becoming related services. PRODUCTION & OPERATION: Ramayya the capital when it comes to local manufacturing of Together, these three companies are expected POSTAGE & PACKING: L N smartphones in India. Global manufacturing major, to invest about Rs 750 crore with each unit being ADVERTISING SALES: Phani Foxconn has already started operations at Sri City classified as a major industry attracting various DESIGN : Dikshit and has partnered Xiaomi and Gionee to manufac- rebates under the State policies and also conces- CREATIVE DESIGNER: MKVS ture their handsets in India. Asus is also expected to sions of VAT, registration and stamp duty. ACCOUNTS: Murthy come in next very soon and many other brands are The decision of these companies comes as a likely to follow suit. major boost after the global contract manufactur- As a result, Andhra Pradesh is fast turning into ing major Foxconn set up a facility in Sri City multi- MAGAZINE CUSTOMER SERVICE: a mobile manufacturing hub with Lava being the product economic zone close by for manufacture [email protected], 0866-6525685 latest entrant with an investment of Rs 500 crore of mobile phones for Xiaomi, Asus, Oppo among towards local manufacturing. others. NOTE: Besides Lava, the Sri Venkateswara Mobile and The site provides great locational advantage All products, brands, service names Electronics Manufacturing Hub at the industrial being close to Krishnapatnam and Chennai ports mentioned may be trademarks of their park at Renigunta near Tirupati — recently inau- and Tirupati and Chennai airports. According to respective owners gurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi — will Government estimates, each of this unit could boast of leading manufacturers like Micromax, Cel- employ about 2000 people. The Industries Depart- kon and Karbonn. The three firms are expected to ment is seeking to woo other manufacturing com- invest Rs 200 crore each to set up their factories. panies--Intex and Lava to the hub. In a big boost to cellular and electronics manu- All these developments are creating a unique facturing in India, Micromax, Karbonn and Celkon value proposition for the state of AP and set to fur- have signed up with the government of Andhra ther establish the state as a favorable smartphone Pradesh to set up their manufacturing facilities near manufacturing destination in India. Tirupati in Chittoor district of the State. The move Dinesh Shyam Sukha by these three cellular companies is also expected Editor to spur the growth of electronics, supplier base and Wishes you CELL IT, VOL-10, ISSUE-04 4 KRISHNA, November-2015 EDITED, PRINTED, PUBLISHED AND OWNED BY DINESH SHYAM SUKHA. PRINTED AT PRINT ZONE, 26/20/18, SWAMY STREET, GANDHI NAGAR, VIJAYAWADA - 520 003, KRISHNA, ANDHRA PRADESH. PUBLISHED AT CELL IT DIGITAL MEDIA, 54-20/3-11, PLOT NO. 3, GURUNANAK COLONY, VIJAYAWADA- 520 008, KRISHNA, ANDHRA PRADESH. EDITOR: DINESH SHYAM SUKHA. NEWS IN FOCUS ANDHRA PRADESH LEADING THE WAY TO FULFIL NATIONAL VISION TOWARDS ESTABLISHING INDIA AS THE GLOBAL HUB FOR MOBILE HANDSET AND COMPONENT MANUFACTURING ACTIVITY: PANKAJ MOHINDROO, NATIONAL PRESIDENT – ICA & CHAIRMAN – FTTF “Andhra Pradesh under the dynamic leadership Mohindroo. touched its nadir. Further, even with this robust of Shri N. Chandrababu Naidu, the Hon’ble Chief “ICA has been closely supporting AP’s vision to growth, we will still reach only 12 per cent of our Minister is fast establish the State as a leading global manufactur- target of 3 lakh crores which we have to achieve turning out to be ing destination for mobile handsets and its compo- by 2019. This is just a beginning” Mr Mohindroo a preferred desti- nent eco – system. Not only are ICA’s efforts directed added. nation for mobile to transform the state into a manufacturing HUB, Shri Venkateswara Mobile & Electronics Manufac- handset and com- rather we are also working with the AP Government turing Hub at Tirupati will create more than 10,000 ponent manufac- to set up design centres and incubation centres to jobs within a year and we expect this hub to con- turing companies. establish AP as a truly Global scale Mobile Handset tribute at least 5% of our all-India target of 15 lakh Suitable regulatory manufacturing HUB, based on the “Make in India” jobs by the year 2019. interventions and and “Digital India vision”, Mr. Mohindroo further Indian Cellular Association (ICA) is the apex body of proactive support reiterated. the Mobile Industry comprising of manufacturers, provided by the The Government of India has set up a Fast Track brand-owners, application & solution providers, State Administra- Task Force (FTTF) to catalyze and re-establish a distributors, retailers and eminent consumers of tion during the robust mobile handsets and component manufac- mobile handsets. The Association has been consti- Pankaj Mohindroo past 4-6 months are turing eco-system in India by 2019 with the objec- tuted to provide value and service to the mobile cel- National President – ICA & Chairman – FTTF turning out to be tive to produce approx. 500 Mn handsets (approx. lular industry in India by fuelling its growth, improv- the clinching factors INR 3,00,000 Crs in value terms) and generating ing competitiveness, helping create a legal and to turn these investment decisions in favour of the employment opportunities for more than 15 Lakhs ethical market and regulatory environment, thereby State”, said Mr. Pankaj Mohindroo, National Presi- people. providing long-term benefits of mobile connectivity dent, Indian Cellular Association (ICA) and Chair- Mr. Mohindroo further hailed the initiatives of the to the Indian masses.Some of its prominent mem- man – Fast Track Task Force (FTTF), set up by the Government of India, such as “Make in India” and bers include Foxconn, Samsung, Microsoft, Nokia, GOI to promote mobile handset manufacturing eco- “Digital India” under the leadership of the Hon’ble Lava, Microsoft, Karbonn, Intex, Micromax, Celkon, system in India. Prime Minister of India, Shri. Narendra Modi. HTC, Panasonic etc. “The Andhra Pradesh Government’s decision to “After the launch of Make in India and Digital India The Fast Track Task Force (FTTF) constituted by the set up a dedicated mobile handset manufacturing movements by our visionary Prime Minister, Shri. Department of Electronics & IT (DeitY), under the facility in Tirupati, the foundation stone of which Narendra Modi and establishment of the Fast Track Chairmanship of Mr. Pankaj Mohindroo (National laid by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Shri Task Force, there have been significant improve- President ICA), with Mr. Josh Foulger, Country Narendra Modi, on 22nd October will be another ments in the investment scenario in the Mobile Head & MD – Foxconn India and Mr. Hari Om Rai, important milestone to leverage the State’s ability Handset and component manufacturing ecosystem CMD – Lava International as co-chairmen has been to attract further investments into this sector”, Mr. and today we are witnessing most of the global and assigned the goal of “re-establishing and catalyzing Mohindroo further mentioned. domestic mobile handset companies setting up or significant growth in the Mobile Handset and Com- “Foxconn has already started operations in Andhra planning to set up manufacturing operations in ponent manufacturing Eco-System in India”. Board Pradesh for manufacturing brands like Xiomi, India”, Mr. Mohindroo. Members of the FTTF include eminent technocrats, Gionee etc. Other important brands like Micromax, “Mobile phone manufacturing in 2015-16 will grow leaders of the industry and top bureaucrats repre- UTL (Karbonn) and Celkon would be kick starting by more than 110 per cent compared to 2014-15, senting various Ministries. their manufacturing operations soon”, added Mr. the year in which mobile handset manufacturing SWIPE SET TO MANUFACTURE ‘MAKE IN INDIA’ SMARTPHONES, TABLETS BY JAN 2016 gies is all set to manufacture next generation ready components indigenously in India. rest of it will be smartphones and tablets at its own manufacturing in SKD or (semi knocked down) format. He added. facility in Chakan, Pune. Swipe Unveils 4G smartphone ELITE 2 exclusively on “We are getting ourselves ready to manufacture Flipkart smartphones and tablets from our manufacturing Swipe Technologies has unveiled its ONLINE-ONLY facility in Chakan, Pune. We are hopeful that our flagship smartphone ELITE 2. ELITE 2 is Swipe’s most first smartphone and tablet will come out by January, affordable 4G device to be sold exclusively on Flip- 2016,” informed, Shripal Gandhi, Founder & CEO of kart from 8th November 2015. The device is com- Swipe Technologies. petitively priced at Rs 4,666 only. Talking about the development of smartphone manu- The company has also announced the EXCLUSIVE facturing ecosystem, he said that the company look- PREVIEW SALE of ELITE 2 for Uber customers, where With an aim to support the ongoing government of ing forward to doing indigenous manufacturing from in Swipe will deliver ELITE 2 directly to Uber custom- India’s Make in India campaign – Swipe Technolo- its facility in Pune. “We will be getting 20 per cent ers in Pune, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Delhi. ACER JOINS THE ‘MAKE-IN-INDIA’ CLUB WITH BOTH SMARTPHONES SET TO BE MANUFACTURED AT THEIR NEW FACILITY IN PONDICHERRY. Acer India, one of the largest PC vendors in the coun- online marketplaces. As part of the tie-up, Flipkart.com nected round the clock. Its ‘Always Ready Everywhere’ try, stepped into the growing smartphone market with will exclusively retail these two smartphone models in capability helps users to multi-task between work and the launch of its latest range of two internationally India.
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