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cOMPANY PROFILE HISTORY : "Let us work up the embers of national pride latent in all of us and build up our morale so that we can confidently aim high and achieve greater goals" Dr. A.S.Rao, Founder MD of EcIL Ayyagari Sambasiva Rao, the founder managing director of the Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL), died on Friday night at Nims after a prolonged illness, family sources said. He was 89. He is survived by his wife, four sons and three daughters. Rao, born in Mogallu in West Godavari district in 1914, obtained his engineering degree from Stanford University in 1947 and joined the Department of Atomic Energy as a nuclear physicist to work with the likes of Homi J Bhabha. He was the director of radiation health protection and electronics groups at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Barc) and later played a key role in setting up ECIL in the city in 1967 when the DAE decided to go commercial in its electronics research. ABUOUT EcIL EcIL was setup under the Department of Atomic Energy on 11th April, 1967 with a view to generate a strong indigenous capability in the field of professional grade electronics. The initial accent was on total self-reliance and EcIL was engaged in the Design, Development, Manufacture and Marketing of several products with emphasis on three technology lines viz. Computers, Control Systems and Communications. Over the years, EcIL pioneered the development of various complex electronics products without any external technological help and scored several 'firsts' in these fields prominent among them being country's y First Digital Computer y First Solid State TV y First Control & Instrumentation of Nuclear Power Plants y First Earth Station Antenna y First Computerized Operator Information System y First Radiation Monitoring & Detection Systems y First Automatic Message Switching Systems y First Operation & Maintenance Center For E-108 Exchange The company played a very significant role in the training and growth of high caliber technical and managerial manpower especially in the fields of computers and Information Technology. Though the initial thrust was on meeting the control & Instrumentation requirements of the Nuclear Power Program, the expanded scope of self-reliance pursued by ECIL enabled the company to develop various products to cater to the needs of Defense, Civil Aviation, Information & Broadcasting, Telecommunications, Insurance, Banking, Police, and Para- Military Forces, Oil & Gas, Power, Space Education, Health, Agriculture, Steel and Coal sectors and various user departments in the Government domain. ECIL thus evolved as a multi-product company serving multiple sectors of Indian economy with emphasis on import of country substitution and development of products & services that are of economic and strategic significance to the country. VISION To contribute to the country in achieving self reliance in strategic electronics. MISSION ECIL's mission is to consolidate its status as a valued national asset in the area of strategic electronics with specific focus on Atomic Energy, Defence, Security and such critical sectors of strategic national importance. OBJEcTIVES y To continue services to the country's needs for the peaceful uses Atomic Energy. Special and Strategic requirements of Defence and Space, Electronics Security Systems and Support for Civil Aviation sector. y To establish newer technology products such as Container Scanning Systems and Explosive Detectors. y To explore new avenues of business and work for growth in strategic sectors in addition to working for realizing technological solutions for the benefit of society in areas like Agriculture, Education, Health, Power, Transportation, Food, Disaster Management etc. y To progressively improve shareholder value of the company. y To strengthen the technology base, enhance skill base and ensure succession planning in the company. y To re-engineer the company to become nationally and internationally competitive by paying particular attention to delivery, cost and quality in all its activities. y To consciously work for finding export markets for the company's products. SYMBOL SLOGAN ORGANISATIONAL STRUcTURE BOARD OF DIREcTORS In terms of Sec 617 of the Companies Act, 1956, ECIL is a Government Company. Presently, the entire paid up capital of the Company is held by the President of India, including 3 shares held by his nominees. The Board, as on 31.03.2010 comprises of nine Directors - Chairman & Managing Director, three Whole-time Director and five Non-Executive Directors. The Board meets at regular intervals and is responsible for the proper direction and management of the Company. Shri Y.S. Mayya Outstanding Scientist & chairman & M. D. Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Sanjeev Loomba Director(Personnel) Shri NSS. Prasada Rao Director(Technical) Shri Shiv Kumar Nori Director (Finance) Shri V. R. Sadasivam Jt. Secretary Finance Shri Umesh chandra Sr.Executive Director (Safety and KM),NPcIL Lt Gen.Partha Mohapatra, AVSM Signal Officer-in-chief & col. Dr. R. Sreehari Rao chief controller R&D and MOD VERTIcALS EcIL, established in 1967 under the Department of Atomic Energy had the primary objective of productionising the products developed at BARC, Mumbai in order to support the Country¶s Nuclear Power and other Atomic Energy Programmes. Concurrently, it has endeavored to create a strong indigenous / production base in the Country for professional grade electronics spanning from small passive components to large and complex computer based systems. Though the initial thrust was on meeting the C&I requirements of NPP, the expanded scope of self-reliance pursued by the Company enabled it to develop various special purpose products and systems to cater to the needs of Defence, Civil Aviation, Information & Broadcasting, Telecommunications, Space, Security, Oil & Gas Power, Education and several other user departments in the Government domain. The Company has thus evolved over the years as a multi-product Company serving multiple sectors of Indian economy with emphasis on Import Substitution and development of products and services that are of economic and strategic importance to the Country spanning the strategic sectors of Atomic Energy, Defence, Space, Security, IT & eGovernance. AEROSPAcE ECIL Played a pioneering role in supporting the ambitious programms of ISRO. ECIL¶s Antenna Products Division has its lineage that dates back to 1968, when ARVI Satellite Communication (ASCOM) group was constituted by drawing experts from various organizations to execute the design, develop, manufacture, install, test and commission the country¶s 1st INTELSAT Class-A Earth Station Antenna at ARVI, Pune for providing the gateway for overseas communications for the traffic originating around Mumbai region. ASCOM Group has designed the 97ft Earth Station Antenna with a king post Elevation over Azimuth pedestal, servo system and antenna control unit. The station was installed and commissioned in 1968. The Feed was imported. The control and servo system was developed by BARC. After the completion of the above project, Microwave Antenna System Engineers Group {MASEG (ISRO)} was formed to further the R&D activities on Microwave and satellite earth station antennas for providing communication facilities in the country. The MASEG group got merged with ECIL in 1972, and Antenna Products Division was formed in ECIL with the aim of taking up commercial production of Microwave and Earth station antennas. In 1975, ECIL delivered another 97ft Earth Station Antenna with king post pedestal (similar to ARVI Antenna) at Lachhiwala in Dehradun for providing the International gateway to the traffic originating from Delhi region. The expertise gained during the execution of above two projects has firmed up the knowledge base at ECIL to take up design and production of various types of communication antennas. Communication antennas per se can broadly be classified into 3 types. 1. for Terrestrial Communication a. Troposcatter antennas b. Line of Sight (LoS ) antennas 2. for Satellite Communication c. Ground/Earth Station Antennas Troposcatter Antennas : Large Bill Board antennas focus a high power radio beam at the troposphere mid way between the transmitter and receiver. A certain portion of the signal is refracted and received at a similar antenna at the receiving station. Earth Station Antennas : On the earth station front, ECIL continued its progress and delivered and installed 3 Nos. of 8m earth station antennas at Port Blair, Kavaretti and Aizwal with indigenous design to bring the far flung areas of Northeast into country¶s telecom network. When the INSAT programme was initiated, ECIL developed and delivered 2 Nos. of reflectors required for 14m diameter Antennas for TTC application at MCF, Hassan with control system by jointly working with BARC. During the same period, ECIL also successfully absorbed the limited know-how from NEC, Japan in productionising medium sized Earth station antennas of diameter 11M, 7.5M and 4.5M.Several of these antennas were delivered to various users like DOT, ONGC, NTPC and MCF. In 1987, ECIL successfully designed, developed, manufactured and installed the 11M diameter full motion antenna for TTC application at MCF, Hassan. The 32m diameter Wheel & Track antenna was installed at ARVI, Pune which was executed jointly in collaboration with NEC, Japan. During this period, ECIL acquired know-how for the indigenous realization of a 32M Wheel & Track antenna employing the beam wave guide feed from NEC, Japan. A full fledged Design Center exists,