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Elets 2nd eJharkhand 2016 Sneak Peak of Key Speakers

Amit Khare

Sunil Kumar Barnwal

Ajoy Kumar Singh

Satendra Singh

K Ravinder Naik

Padma Jaiswal

Additional Chief Secretary Department of Finance Government of Jharkhand

Secretary Department of Higher, Technical Education and Skill Development Government of Jharkhand

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Srinivas Rao

Sales Director Government Business Hitachi Data Systems India

Murali Ramalingam

Country Manager & Senior Director-Sales Ixia India Business

Amit Mehta

Director-Sales Emerging Technology Storage Division at DELL EMC India & SAARC

Transport Commissioner Government of Uttar Pradesh

Secretary Department of Information Technology & eGovernance Government of Jharkhand

Secretary Department of Expenditure Government of Jharkhand

Secretary Department of Cooperation Government of Goa

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Srinivas Rao Sales Director – Government Business Hitachi Data Systems India (HDS)

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India’s Tryst With Cashless Economy?

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ith the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government trying to attain digitalisation goals of government payments, the finance ministry recently made it mandatory for government departments to make electronic payment to suppliers and contractors if the order value exceeds Rs 5,000.

The move is likely to influence a sea-change in the way transactions are done in various parts of the country from tehsils to blocks to every district or city-level in rural parts of India affecting the local system of administration in the country.

Also, the recent move to demonetise Rs. 500 and Rs.1,000 notes by government came as just a glimpse of the transition India is going through to ensure that the country doesn’t lag behind any country in curbing black money or any other malpractices.

It has also showcased to every ordinary citizen in which direction the Modi government is taking rural Bharat and urban India while thwarting possibilities of international threat to sabotage the Indian financial system or prevent terror threats.

All this motivated us to revolve our cover story “Demonetisation for cashless economy, India’s tryst with destiny?” around the idea as how IT industry is helping the demonetisation drive in India. It must be mentioned that the government’s move and the subsequent cash crunch has prompted almost every household to embrace digital payments, especially the e-wallets.

Our story covers the pros and cons of demonetisation, how IT initiatives have pushed the country in becoming a ‘cashless’ economy.

Our recent 2nd Elets eJharkhand 2016 conference in Ranchi held in October witnessed vibrant sessions on key topics of making the State an IT investment hub, role of PSUs, Smart Cities, etc. It was a major success and once again created ripples in the administrative and education world.

With the presence of policy makers, industry leaders, and top-notch delegates, the various segments of discussion turned the most awaited event highly thoughtprovoking, educative and a major event of exchanging ideas and networking.

Hoping the New Year 2017 will be successful and joyous, we look forward to your invaluable feedback.

Dr Ravi Gupta Editor-in-Chief

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Cover Story | Cashless Economy

Demonetising for Cashless Economy India’s Another Tryst with Destiny?

While opinions over the government’s demonetisation move may differ from being positive to lacking planning before implementation, it has undeniably proved to be a great push towards making India a cashless economy. Propelling this push is the country’s ability in cutting-edge information technology, writes Priyanka Sharma of Elets News Network (ENN).

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currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 2,000. It was quite clear from his speech that the move was aimed at containing the evil of black money, which he mentioned 18 times in his ‘thought provoking’ speech.

However, many national newspapers on the morning of November 9 carried full-page advertisements from the mobile payment app PayTM hailing the Prime Minister’s decision. By November 28, only 20 days since the announcement of demonetisation, the Prime Minister started mentioning the term ““digital” or “cashless” as many times

as “black money” in his public addresses across the nation. This significant shift in the narration of demonetisation forms the centerpiece of India’s tryst with cashless economy.

Sensing that this shift would translate into a huge future opportunity, a number of payment gateways like Paytm and Freecharge, which were already in big demand, and wholesale retailers such as Metro Cash & Carry are working on helping small traders and kirana shop owners to adopt digital payment options

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to push India towards a cashless economy.

Demonetisation also fuelled the growth of many relatively new mobile apps and payment gateways which have come to the rescue of the general public to make digital payments a viable option in every nook and corner of the country.

Demonetisation: A boon to e-wallets’ business The government’s demonetisation move was followed the subsequent cash crunch due to short supply of new currency and on account of technicalities involved in making ATMs across the country compatible to new currencies, which had different physical dimensions than the older ones that were withdrawn. This led people to move towards digital payments, specially the e-wallets.

According to the Finance Ministry data, the number of daily transactions through e-wallet services such as Oxigen, Paytm and MobiKwik have shot up from 17 lakh — recorded on November 8 when demonetisation was announced — to 63

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lakh as on December 7 (a growth of 271 per cent). In terms of value, the surge has been 267 per cent, from Rs 52 crore daily to Rs 191 crore till the time data was recorded.

Transactions through RuPay Cards (e-commerce and point-of-sale) were up 316% at 16 lakh daily (3.85 lakh on November 8), while in terms of value the growth has been 503% at Rs 236 crore (Rs 39 crore).

The government and digital payment companies are expecting this trend to stay strong, at least till easy availability of new currency.

“CCAvenue has been the digital payment facilitator of choice for a large majority of online businesses, and we have witnessed a massive spike of 30 per cent in transactions on our payment gateway during this period,” says Vishwas Patel, CEO of CC Avenue.

This growth is in line with the government’s digital India dream focusing on digital transactions to make India a cashless country. Post demonetization, the government has asked all banks to install 10 lakh additional points of sale (PoS) terminals within four months to give a boost to digital transactions across the country.

There are about 15 lakh PoS terminals currently deployed to facilitate card-based payments. As part of the plan to expand the digital payments ecosystem and facilitate the move towards cashless transactions, the government has decided that an additional one million new PoS terminals should be installed by March 31 next year.

But is it possible to achieve the target of

achieving the dream of cashless economy in totality keeping in view the vast geography of India? Aakash Jindal, Global Economist and Tax Expert, answers this question.

“India doesn’t live only in Delhi and Mumbai where people were already cashless before demonetisation. People in small towns and villages are still not using the debit and credit cards. The challenge lies in making vegetable vendors, chaiwallas cashless but it will not be easy for the government. We are trying to be cashless, but it is difficult to achieve this target, if not impossible,” he says.

United Payments Interface (UPI) Even though the government backed UPI is not as popular as e-wallets like Paytm and FreeCharge, it has still managed to do 358,000 transactions in the first nine days of December, shooting past November’s 287,000 total, according to a data released by the Central Bank of India.

“Currently, we are implementing the RBI-backed UPI payments with several leading banks. UPI is set to make a paradigm shift in the digital payment space by facilitating instant online payments from a smartphone through a unique personalised identifier without disclosing account numbers or other bank details,” added Patel of CC Avenue.

On the other hand, digital-payments provider Paytm Mobile Solutions has claimed that currently 165 million users are making use of their payment gateway and the company is expecting to process 2

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billion transactions by the end of this year.

“In the shorter term, demonetisation is a great exercise but non availability of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes are creating problems.

It is badly affecting the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as well. In the longer term it will be a good exercise because, black money hoarders will be trapped. Demonetisation will increase our GDP growth and our per capita income. Our inflation stands to reduce in the longer term. It’s a game changer and it would increase our country’s credibility,” added Jindal.

Long term benefits of demonetisation

Rise of the cashless economy: According to experts, spread of the digital payment culture will start the ‘formalisation’ process in the economy. It will reduce the use of physical cash. Once bulk of the economic transactions are digitised it will result in revealing the expenditure made by individuals to the tax authorities especially big transactions.

Large number of new taxpayers may appear with demonetisation: This is because demonetised money will reveal their income size and tax officials may check them in future, compelling to pay tax.

Rise in financial savings: At present, more than 50 per cent of household savings are in physical savings like gold and land.

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CCAvenue has been the digital payment facilitator of choice for a large majority of these online businesses, and we have witnessed a massive spike of 30 per cent in transactions on our payment gateway during this period,” says Vishwas Patel, CEO of CC Avenue. money. Now with the low reward in the real estate and gold holdings, people may tempt to save in financial forms like bank deposits, mutual funds etc.

Challenges

Pushing ahead digital transactions: The major challenge for the government is to take this digital transformation deep into the rural parts of India. Payworld, one of India’s largest assisted wallets, which had over 100 million users and 1 lakh retail touch points across 630 cities and 80,000 villages till the first week of November, has registered 25 per cent jump in new users — mostly from rural and semi-urban areas — over the last two weeks.

While most players, including Chinese e commerce major Alibaba-backed Paytm and Snapdeal-owned FreeCharge, are catering to the top 10 per cent people of India, ItzCash plans to keep its focus on rural India where roughly 66 per cent of

the country resides. The company, with an omni-channel presence through outlets, mobile wallets and cards, is present across 3,000 towns and cities, and claims to have seen a 40 per cent spike in transaction volumes since November 8. Rural India indeed looks like a land of golden opportunity for marketers, including mobile wallet players.

The Rural Development Ministry, too, wants to rope in digital wallet firms to make the 40,000 crore turnover of women’s selfhelp groups (SHGs) cashless and broaden financial inclusion.

The ministry has tied up with banks to smoothen the transfer of money given through welfare schemes following the demonetisation of high-denomination currency notes.

“We do feel that there is still an urgent need for higher literacy rates, improved banking infrastructure, greater financial inclusion and a tech-savvy mindset among the populace. Once all these fall in place, the transition towards a cashless economy will be smooth, fast and acceptable,” says Patel.

According to The Economic Times, there are about 1.5 crore shops, but only 14.6 lakh point of sale devices that can handle credit or debit cards.

Aimed at promoting digital transactions, the government think tank Niti Aayog has announced two schemes - Lucky Grahak Yojana and Digi Dhan Vyapari Yojana involving a rewards programme based on lucky draws, entailing a spending of Rs 340 crore. The Lucky Grahak Yojna is targeted at consumers and the Digi Dhan Vyapari Yojna at encouraging merchants to transition to digital payments. Such initiatives will really push the benefits of demonetisation to each and every household of India.

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corporate interview | Amit Mehta

Dell EMC-Efficiently Storing, Protecting

and Managing Data From high performance all-flash arrays to hybrid flash platforms and scale-out NAS systems, Dell EMC enterprise storage helps data-intensive organisations deliver optimal experiences.

Amit Mehta, Director-Sales, Emerging Technology Storage Division at DELL EMC, India & SAARC in conversation with Harshal Desai of Elets News Network (ENN) tells us more about the company’s data storage products.

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corporate interview | Amit Mehta

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ow is Dell EMC redefining enterprise storage?

For businesses to transform themselves, it is important to adopt the concept of mobility where on one side they need to manage the current infrastructure and current platform solutions which are second generation applications and at the same time they need to adopt and invest to innovate and look at the new age applications. When you look at modernising data centres, storage is one critical component and we believe that in Dell EMC we have five pillars of modern data centres as it works.

The first pillar is flash and we believe with the commoditisation of flash and with the rapid innovation in flash, there is opportunity of higher op at lower cost that really impact the typical performance centric applications like high-end Erp, for the applications which are performance hungry or are sensitive we believe for them flash is the way to go and what flash essentially does is deliver higher performance at far lower data center footprint.

Our ability to architect our customer machine critical performance centric application workload expands across wide range of price points from entry level right to the high end that is the flash portfolio.

The second portfolio we have is the scale out platform and by scale out. A lot of data is required to be stored for compliance reading. We have a platform called isolone which enables organisations to consolidate all the sources of unstructured data and naturally reduce the data center footprint reducing the one fourth size of the unstructured environment in terms of data center footprint and put a scale out platform, that’s where we have isolone.

Isolone enables organisations to set up a data lake. The data lake is a single source of unstructured data across different sources which combines the data and then derives business benefit out of it.

Then we have the third pillar, the software defined storage, a lot of customers want to embrace commodity because they have tools to manage IT infrastructure and they want to rapidly take advantage of the cost economies of the commodity.

The density of commodity servers is also

increasing. People want to deploy software defined storage on commodity environment and we have couple of solutions. A lot of people are moving towards objects and being new in developers people are writing applications on python are generally object workloads. When they compare Amazon S3 pricing and ECS, we say that we have the potential to reduce the total cost of over shape of the customer. If he wants to deploy on ECS on his environment, he can reduce the total cost to serve to about 60% compared to S3.

The fourth pillar is what we call the cloudenabled. Each of the solutions that we are architecting whether it is flash or scale out, for instance if you have frozen data for archival purposes, you can keep all your data which you use regularly on an all flash array then you can automatically move the tier of data from all flash to the cloud and that is where

hybrid deployment of cloud.

How do you see the data storage market in next five years?

In each of the customer engagements we had people who have embraced the strategy.

Clearly, in terms of adoption, we see the adoption growing. Most of the players putting up their data centers here like Tata com, Next Gen but virtue of their expansion they see a huge surge. Public cloud surge is more than they hybrid cloud. The public cloud is on a roll and we want to help the customers to have a better cost manage economy where we have hybrid.

What challenges are being faced in India to adopt Big Data Analytics?

At the base-level we are talking about working without customers to collage different silos of

Our first strategy is to understand the customers’ digital transformation journey and help them modernise the data center. the archival price points are very cheap and they can take benefit of archival on the cloud.

The final pillar is trust, with our services in RSA and Dell secure work we now wrap around each of the portfolios that we have on storage with security.

Our first strategy is to understand the customer’s digital transformation journey and help them modernise the data center.

Our recommendation is to build what differentiates you and buy what is available off the shelf.

What are your views on public and private Cloud and Data security?

What happened in the last five years with the success of azure that people have realised whether its infrastructure as a storage, even large scale organisations are leveraging the infrastructure of compute, leveraging the infrastructure of software services like e-mails, crms. Today, you are as secure or insecure as you are in your environment. The question now lies whether the people are getting the benefit of the cloud economy as they thought they would. People are looking at options like

information create one structure, one source of unstructured data lakes which they can from various platforms.

After that, we worked with Hadoop tender to drive big data, Hadoop is the application of choice for driving big data and the text.

One is that we have faster time to market and the other is we can lower the cost point of collaption with the data lake on a keynote platform up to 100.6%.

And then on top of the Hadoop tenders, we have this whole ecosystem of solutions, solutions which are nation by nation solutions to lend information to the end user. So customers who want to build the enterprise data lake, they have their Hadoop provider and they build applications or tableau kind of a software.

So, earlier we could only offer the solutions, now we can offer solutions to customers, where customers can take a direct computing storage from us and then when the thing goes up, they can buy storage separately and compute separately. So that’s the opportunity the Dell-EMC collaboration can come to. Enter low and scale all the way up to 100 TB.

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corporate interview | Amit Singha

With an industry experience of more than 19 years, Indus Net Technologies is helping corporations and governments across the globe embrace the cloud based custom application development, mobility and digital marketing services, says Amit Singha, Head of eGovernance Division, Indus Net Technologies in conversation with Elets News Network (ENN).

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lease give us an overview of your company.

Indus Net Technologies (INT) is an innovative IT Service managed outsourcing and internet strategy company with unique combination of creativity and technology. Headquartered in India, INT has offices in more than five global locations and caters to a wide range of enterprise clients, digital agencies and emerging companies across various industry verticals like Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI),Media, Publishing and Entertainment (MPE), travel and hospitality, education, e-governance etc. in more than 40 countries.

With an industry experience of more than 19 years, more than 750 digital professionals and technological expertise across all major business functions, INT helps corporations and governments across the globe embrace the ‘Nexus of Forces’ – cloud/web based custom application development, mobility and digital marketing services to make their business future ready. Our solutions are tailored to specific business needs enabling our clients that include many Fortune 500 clientele to save smarter and grow faster.

central and state governments. Few of our clients are MyGov, Election Commission, Parliament of India, United India Insurance, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Ministry of Rural Development, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Commerce, State Bank of India, West Bengal Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation (HIDCO) to name a few.

Smart city mission is making use of a lot of digital services. How do you see your company in the ecosystem of ‘Smart Cities’?

Starting from the initial stage of our PM’s vision we are still connected with various

Our solutions are tailored to specific business needs enabling our clients that include many Fortune 500 clientele to save smarter and grow faster.

Indus Net Technologies is helping the government in delivering e-governance services in a big way.

Could you highlight some of them for our readers?

Indus Net Technologies is currently empanelled with NICSI (National Information Center for Services Inc.), NeGD (National e-Governance Division), BSNL, ELCOT (Electronic Corporation of Tamil Nadu) as a technology partner. Being a digital partner of these organisations, we get the opportunity to work with various Ministries, PMO, State governments, PSUs etc.

We are also empanelled with NeGD for all kinds of game development for

initiatives of Government of India. We are the only agency, who developed PM Modi’s dream application called ‘MyGov’, which is a crowdsourcing platform which creates a direct connection between the government and citizens, allows people to contribute towards government decision making, policies and good governance.

Then comes ‘Incredible India’, an Android based mobile application which aims to offer detailed information about the Indian tourism industry to both domestic and international tourists. The app provides access to information about Ministry of Tourism.

When the first 100 ‘Smart Cities’ project

was announced, Indus Net Technology was associated with ‘New Town Rajarhat’ and created the most awaited Indian first smart city mobile application (New Town Smart City Application) and bring New Town Rajarhat into digital media with mass level audience reach with the help of Digital Marketing. Apart from New Town Rajarhat, we have also launched citizen’s grievance tool with the help of a mobile application for Bardhaman District, it’s called ‘Smart Bardhaman’.

Indus Net Technology has also developed an application for West Bengal Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Department, called SWAS (Service with a Smile), it’s an interactive mobile application where entrepreneurs seek information and guidance to respective department to set up their own unit/ footprint here in West Bengal.

What kind of storage solutions ‘Indus Net technologies’ is offering to its clients ?

At Indus Net Technologies, we deliver complex and scalable solutions with a consultative approach in Web Application, Cloud Application, Custom Application Development, Mobile Apps, Enterprise Mobility and Digital Marketing.

What new products your company plans to launch in the near future ?

We are coming up with two new products.

The first one is called ‘Collusion’ which is an employee collaboration and project management system and second one is called ‘Breeze’ which is an Enterprise resource planning product plus Human Resource Management System.

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Corporate Interview | Shikha Rai

Canon India:

Overcoming Gender Bias

The tech industry should take it up as a responsibility to inspire girls into science and technology. Canon India believes that all employees should feel valued and appreciated in an environment of inclusiveness, says Shikha Rai, Vice President, HR & IT, Canon India in conversation with Elets News Network (ENN).

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hat efforts are being taken to address the issue of gender bias at Canon India?

Canon India’s vision is “We will be the company that is respected by people. People who work for Canon and those related with it will take pride in their association”.

Fair, transparent, equitable systems with no prejudices and biases would make such vision possible. Our endeavour is that all employees should feel valued and appreciated in an environment of inclusiveness.

We believe that to address issues related to mindsets, the change should happen from the top. Leadership support should be visible. This year, the CEO and President of Canon India held a series of lunch meetings with the women employees across all grades and locations to understand the unique challenges that they may be facing and how the company could support their career objectives. We have initiated a programme called WE@Canon (Women Empowerment at Canon) where the senior women leaders are advisors to the CEO to support initiatives that can bring positive change in the organisation’s gender ratio.

Policies and guidelines are being relooked from the lens of gender equity.

While we have increased the maternity leaves to 26 weeks, we looked into the

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appraisal policy and included guideline for the managers on how to appraise those women colleagues who would be on leave for this extended period. Post-maternity transition support has been introduced with flexibility in office timing and part time option.

While hiring, our talent acquisition teams ensure fair representation of women candidates. Our leaders and key managers have gone through a workshop called ‘Fine Balance’ which spoke about how unconscious biases are present in workplaces, impact of stereotyping and also how a diverse workforce makes business sense - leads to better Return of Equity, creative ideation and balanced decision making. We have programmes to address any discrimination or harassment. Training

women-friendly HR policies in organisations?

I believe that the HR policies need to be fair, transparent and equitable which means that they need to be friendly to all sections of the workforce. If a particular section of the workforce has a unique need, and differential support is required to address it, it should be done.

Diverse workforce brings the best results and hence the HR policies should be such that encourage and promote diversity and inclusion.

What are the challenges faced by women in the tech industry?

Engineering colleges still report a lopsided representation of women. The tech industry should take up, as their

Post maternity transition support has been introduced with flexibility in office timing and part time option. on Prevention of Sexual Harassment (POSH) is mandated.

Workshops are conducted on various topics like work-life balance, how to establish one’s own sense of identity and also to learn from role models.

What is your opinion on

responsibility to inspire girls into science and technology. Lack of women role models in the tech industry also does not help the cause. The gap expands the higher up one goes, as there are dropouts during the crucial junctures of marriage and childbearing. These factors also create gender bias at the time of recruitment.

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corporate Interview | Srinivas Rao

Hitachi Powering Enterprises in Digital Age Hitachi Data Systems India Private Ltd is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Japan-based Hitachi Ltd. The company offers an integrated portfolio of services and solutions that enable digital transformation through enhanced data management, governance, mobility and analytics to its customers. Srinivas Rao, Sales Director – Government Business, Hitachi Data Systems India (HDS), shares the market experience and opportunities for the company, in an interview with T. Radhakrishna of Elets News Network (ENN).

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ive us an overview of HDS and its business vision?

HDS offers an integrated portfolio of services and solutions that enable digital transformation through enhanced data management, governance, mobility and analytics. We help global organisations open new revenue streams, increase efficiencies, improve customer experience and ensure rapid time to market in the digital age.

HDS powers the digital enterprise by integrating the best information technology and operational technology from across the Hitachi family of companies.

We combine this experience with Hitachi expertise in the internet of things to deliver the exceptional insights business and

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society need to transform and thrive.

Today, the best examples for digital transformation are industries such as hospitality and cab. Both have transformed rapidly using the digital transformation technologies especially data analytics and mobile connectivity. The growth is evident across the globe. Incidentally, enterprises across the globe are under pressure for strengthening their business vision. There is no exception for public sector or the government.

As you know digital transformation is the profound and accelerating transformation of business activities, processes, competencies and models to fully leverage the changes and opportunities of digital technologies and their impact across society in a strategic and prioritised way.

Digital has raised customer expectations.

They now expect a higher level of service from organisations.

There has been a lot of respect for Japan and its companies in India and globally. How do you see this scenario for HDS and its parent company?

India–Japan relations have traditionally been strong. For centuries, the people of India and Japan have engaged in cultural exchanges and are guided by common cultural traditions and share commitment to the ideals of democracy, tolerance, pluralism and open society. India and Japan, two of the largest and oldest democracies in Asia, having a high degree of congruence of political, economic and strategic interests, view each other as partners that have responsibility for and are capable of responding to global and regional challenges.

Being a 100% subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd, we do collaborate with our parent company and sister subsidiaries and their knowledge resources, to provide solutions for our customers in India. In today’s scenario, collaborative approach will help us to offer better solutions. It also includes other valueadded services. There were numerous occasions, for example, we provide solutions suitable to Smart City and Digital India by collaborating with our parent company and other sister subsidiaries.

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How do you see the Government of India’s programmes such as Digital India and Smart Cities Mission?

With the Government of India talking about Digital India and Smart Cities Mission, business opportunities in Government sector are enormous. We at HDS see these programmes are good opportunities for the company. We are closely observing the developments in Smart Cities Mission and will surely participate in these programmes under Digital India umbrella.

What is your business strategy for go-to market for HDS in India?

Our strategy for Go-To market is to collaborate with the ecosystem global and domestic partners such as System Integrators (SIs) and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), and together offer end-to-end digital transformation solutions to the customers and also participate in tenders or bids.

Our focus is on Information Management Infrastructure and Digital Transformation.

For HDS, India market is a good example for collaborations and joint bids.

Which are the verticals HDS focusing on?

We focus on Banking Finance Securities and Insurance (BFSI), IT-ITeS, Telecom, and Government. BFSI is our biggest vertical followed by others.

What has been the market experiences of HDS so far?

We have made our presence strong in India by serving global customers here.

HDS builds information management and social innovation solutions for business and social prosperity. Our IT solutions and services drive strategic management and analysis of the world’s data. We see business opportunities are growing in India.

The Government organisations are also thinking completely different. For example, HDS has collaborated with Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), a Government of India organisation, to provide digital transformation by facilitating seamless information management in the backend where the EPFO can digitise most of its services. Along with the home grown applications and partners, we have helped

EPFO to digitally transform for providing better services to citizens.

We also worked with National Knoweldge Network (NKN) and MyGov.in projects.

The NKN is a multi-gigabit, whose purpose is to provide a unified high speed network backbone for educational institutions in India. It is a hierarchical network divided into three basic layers – ultra-high speed CORE (multiples of 10 Gbit/s; Level 1), Distribution (Level 2), and Edge (speeds of 1 Gbit/s or higher; User Level). Depending on the type of connectivity required by the user organisation, geographical presence, and the location of Point of Presence (PoP) of NKN, (belonging to Core and Distribution), connectivity would be provided to the institutes. The network is designed to support Overlay Networks, Dedicated Networks, and Virtual Networks.

Advanced applications in areas such as Health, Education, Science & Technology,

platform and managing the applications as well. For this project, HDS has provided backend information and infrastructure layers and will help to store and protect data and retrieve data as and when it required and provide seamless access to the information.

In your current position, what is your mandate?

I have over 25 years of experience in the industry. Being Sales Director for Government Business for India at Hitachi Data Systems India, I am responsible for re-aligning the sales organisation to drive relevance and revenues in the Government Vertical. I work closely with the team to build collaborative strategies to expand the engagement of Hitachi Data Systems India with Union and State Government entities by leveraging the expertise of consultants, technology partners, ISV partners and the partner ecosystem.

I joined HDS in 2001 as Senior Support

Our vision is to investigate challenges facing society and customers together with the stakeholders, and together identify ways to resolve the issues.

Grid Computing, Bioinformatics, Agriculture, and Governance will be an integral part of NKN. The entire network will seamlessly integrate with the global scientific community at multiple gigabits per second speed.

MyGov is a citizen engagement platform founded by the Government of India to promote the active participation of Indian citizens in their country’s governance and development. It is also aimed at creating a common platform for Indian citizens to “crowdsource governance ideas from citizens”. The users shall be allowed to discuss and to contribute on various government projects and plans. It also allows users to upload documents in various formats. The website is hosted and managed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC).

For NKN, HDS has provided digital transformation platform and for MyGov. in, worked closely with NIC, in hosting the

Engineer with 17 years of extensive Technical experience in handling India Technical Operations, in terms Pre-Sales, Project Delivery and Support operations.

What are interesting things happenning at Hitachi?

At Hitachi Innovation, a lot of work is on in the areas of data analytics for various verticals, including agriculture, connected cars, Oil and Gas industry, etc. Our vision is to investigate challenges facing society and customers together with the stakeholders, and together identify ways to resolve the issues. By drawing on our vast experience and technology in societal infrastructure and information technology built-up over many years, we will provide the optimal solution. This broad range of technologies, knowledge and experience will be leveraged to challenge issues and develop innovative solutions for a better future.

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corporate Interview | Murali Ramalingam

Ixia -A Cyber Wall Against Virtual Threats

Security assessment company Ixia focuses on security and monitoring of networks across enterprises and the government. Its idea is to train all the medium and large companies and government organisations to identify and protect the network in cyber security, says Murali Ramalingam, Country Manager and Senior Director-Sales, Ixia India Business, in an exclusive interaction with Souvik Goswami of Elets News Network (ENN). Excerpts:

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hat is the overview of Ixia and its business interest with respect to the Indian market?

The Indian government is not spending much on cyber security as compared to the budgets it has allocated to the IT sector. In the coming six years, the Internet of Things (IoT) industry is going to be worth $15 billion which means that the threat issue is going to be larger. The cyber attack, which happened last year, was the reason behind a loss of $315 billion over a period of 12 months. My company is the leader in the cyber security and we are the force point in all the technologies that we launch in the market.

Ixia is in India for the past 10 years and we strictly follow the Make in India programme. We have 250 developers in Kolkata working on developing the hardware, software for Indian enterprises and government departments. We also have global support from Bengaluru. We have engineering, sales and system people based out of Bengaluru. We manufacture products according to Indian needs.

The Indian market is changing tremendously. There have been lots of trends in IoT and cloud and for Ixia, the major focus is on security and monitoring with respect to enterprises and government.

This opens a huge opportunity for India.

Many government programmes like Digital India, Smart Cities, Mygov etc involve Big Data and hence its security is also of paramount importance, what

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relevance does Ixia hold in this context?

Evolving technologies like software developed network, migration to cloud are taking real shape. The coming year is for skilled people who can help drive this network. With the evolving changes in technology in India, there are opportunities and challenges. For example, in smart cities all the systems are connected electronically and if you don’t make that system secure, then you can have major issues.

It is also important to ensure security of critical information and government establishments. In this context how is Ixia going to help?

Security of critical information infrastructure is at highest priority. State nations have a new turf to defend i.e., “CYBER” after land, sea and air. Ixia plays a critical role in helping secure the critical information.

Take Ixia’s Cyber Range for example it helps test and defend critical infrastructure and train manpower. The m o s t

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important place where Ixia have a critical role to play and we differentiate ourselves is to take care of 360 degree security that requires – trained manpower along with right tools.

Cyber Range provides real life situations and allows users to train themselves to combat in a real event of cyber-attack. In a war, you have to prepare yourself before going to the war itself. Same way, in cyber range, we also simulate the attacks. We also pump the traffic along with the regular and the malware traffic and the IT staff is being trained and also certified in looking at these cyber threats.

What expansion plans do you have in India, especially in the government sector?

The Indian government is the largest buyer of defence equipments. So defence is the key for us. After Uri attacks, cyber attacks from our neighbours were predominant. Cyber protection for defence networks is the key for us.

We work for three major segments.

The first one is the enterprise segment, second one is the telecom segment. All the large carriers in India have equipment to simulate real life conditions to the Random Access Memory. The third one is the network equipment manufacturers like Cisco, Juniper etc. We have equipment to test their product before it goes to the market.

Corporate Interview | Ilias Chantzos

Symantec - A Shield

Against Cyber Attacks The dynamic shift in cybercrimes stresses upon the need for policy and legislative solutions, including protecting critical infrastructure, enhancing data-breach reporting, improving cyber threat information-sharing, and a focus on strengthening public private partnerships, says Ilias Chantzos, Senior Director, Government Affairs EMEA-APJ, Symantec, in an interview with Rashi Aditi Ghosh of Elets News Network (ENN).

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ow relevant is Symantec in context of India? What efforts Symantec is taking in terms of India’s cyber

security?

Symantec’s footprint in India is very significant. We have a large development centre in India and our presence in terms of security operations in the country is also huge. A lot of Symantec’s staff is involved in Research and Development in India.

Our company is contributing a lot in terms of skill development and capacity building in India. We have partnered with NASSCOM foundation in designing a curriculum around cyber security in India.

In my knowledge, the first curriculum of cyber security was already out in April this year. There are a lot of efforts from our end in terms of investments, awareness, skill and capacity building.

The state of cyber security across the globe is digitally transforming but there are various challenges, can you underline some of them?

I think if someone looks at it from a covered policy landscape, we see challenges associated with technology and policy-making. This is the reason why there has been a shift change to cloud. To meet the challenges, there is a need to deploy more Internet of things (IOT) devices as all the threat is emerging due to explosion and proliferation of data.

Like other countries across the globe, India too is facing a lot of security threat but as per our observation, India has been

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extremely successful in terms of digital transformation.

With cybercriminals undergoing an organisational shift, they are also adopting corporate best practices and tactics. According to the National Crime Records Bureau (2015) most of the cyber criminals are students, what is your take on such a threatening situation?

In my view, rather than commenting in terms of age group, I believe it is important to look at the entire issue at large as a threat.

Lately, people are engaging more and more into cyber crimes because of economy and job prospects.

A study by Symantec (Internet Security Threat Report 2015) says a government organisation that has been attacked virtually can be targeted again, what can be the possible reasons for it?

Government sites have higher vulnerability to cyber attacks because of the amount of interesting data it contains. Technically saying, such things happen again because of Malwares that penetrates the system and unless you do a thorough clean up, your system will experience such attacks on regular intervals.

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IT bridges the gap between common people and the government. We are living in the age of Information Technology.

If India wants to move ahead in the current times, IT cannot be ignored and that is why we have created four policies around the IT sector. Our government’s priority is IT because we can directly connect to the people through it.”

“Our talented youth can give direction to the world.

I request you all to help Ranchi in becoming the second Bengaluru as the IT hub.”

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We have four policies, specially for the IT companies and startups. You will find Jharkhand government to be an active partner in whatever you are doing, be it clearance or setting up of the industry.î

Sunil Kumar Barnwal

Secretary Department of Information Technology AND eGovernance, Government of Jharkhand

WHEN wE TALK of Jharkhand, our main

focus is to impart government services to the people electronically and in an efficient way. All our efforts are e-centric. For the past 22 months, focus has been on e governance and building out an ITbased ecosystem.î ìWe also want to develop industries based on IT including startups, BPO industry etc. We are going to increase focus on the IT development. We have signed MoUs with companies like Cisco and Oracle for the IT development.

We are targeting around 15,000 students who will be given special IT skills to enhance their employability.î

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Ajoy Kumar Singh

Secretary Department of Higher, Technical Education and Skill Development, Government of Jharkhand To maKE JHaRKHaND a higher education

hub, we opened three private universities, Mahila mahavidyalaya and polytechnics in 11 districts.

We have to increase accessibility to make Jharkhand an education hub. We plan to open 100 colleges. There is a lot of scope in opening the IT based institutions in the state.ĂŽ

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Executive Director Indian Cellular Association

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By 2019, tHE demand for mobile phones in India is expected to reach around 34 billion dollars. In 2015-16, 25 new mobile manufacturing units came up in India. Given the present conditions, the mobile handset industry is in the ideal position of carrying manufacturing flag. This mobile phone industry employs women in large numbers so this is a social game changer industry.î

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Deputy Vice President HDFC Bank

IN ouR baNK, we believe that we must provide sustainable livelihood to the underprivileged. In Jharkhand, we have taken a holistic rural development programme and covered 40 villages. We have also done capacity building programme with the villagers and trained more than 10,000 citizens of the Jharkhand. We intend to reach 100 villages in our programmes.î

Swaminathan V

Senior Executive Vice President Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited

two priorities -transparency and skill development, Kotak Mahindra Bank wants to be a part of both these initiatives. We have done such associations in many states and want to do here too. We will be happy to impart financial literacy to rural masses and students.î JHaRKHaND GoVERNmENt HaS

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BY 2020 cOAL India is going to produce onebillion tonnes of coal out of which 250 million tonnes of the coal will be contributed by Mahanadi coalfields. To cater to such a mammoth task, Mahanadi coalfields is equipped with all the latest technologies. Our entire area is geo fenced. No vehicle can go out without giving the information.î

Anil Kumar Jha

Chairman and Managing Director, Mahanadi Coalfields Limited

WE ARE INITIATINg a scheme of providing a glass of water at

PUBLIc SEcTOR UNITS (PSUs) of India have done marvelous

the cost of ` one at all railway stations. We are also trying to provide ATM facility at all the railway stations and to achieve the target, 7 ATM machines are being installed at different stations on daily basis. Starting with 29 tickets in 2002, now we are booking 6,00,00 tickets on daily basis through IRCTC Portal which is more than all the airlines in the world.î

jobs in their respective fields and PSUs are the backbone of countryís economic growth. With my 35 years of experience in public sector that though the private sector/corporateís role is sometimes questionable but PSUs whether it is Maharatna, Navratna or Miniratna have contributed a lot in countryís growth.î

AK Manocha

Chairman and Managing Director, IRCTC

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Shekhar Saran

Chairman and Managing Director, Central Mine Planning and Design Institute Limited

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JHARKHAND IS AMONg states where doing business is very easy. We already have been allotted a coal mine in the state and we have requested to allot another one. We are looking up for lots of opportunities in Jharkhand as the state comes in our core area of doing business i.e. mining.î

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JHARKHAND BEING A resource rich area is a very important part of National Power Grid. Jharkhand is also taking lot of initiatives in developing power transmission systems with Power Grid as its consultant. Looking at the current development scenario in Jharkhand, the state will be very well placed in the development of interstate transmission system.î

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Executive Director, NLC India Limited

PSUs ARE pARTIcIpATINg in countryís development in three ways. First is that PSUs are assigned or are participating in large or very large projects. Second, PSUs are assigned risky projects and third, all PSUs are using latest and most innovative technologies to complete the projects.î

Kamlakar Kaul

Executive Director, Telecommunications Consultants India Limited

YK Sehgal

Executive Director, Power Grid Corporation of India Limited

INDIAN OIL IS the only fortune global 500 company holding a rank of 161 among the private and public sector giants. The fuel consumption pattern shows the pattern of growth in the economy. Jharkhand is having a higher growth rate with a fuel consumption of 9 % which shows that the economy of Jharkhand is vibrant.î

RS Dahiya

General Manager, Indian Oil Corporation Limited

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CONTAINER CORpORATION OF India Limited has a market capitalisation of more than ` 25,000 crores with the annual profit of ` 1,000 crores. The most astonishing part is that the number of employees in the organisation is only 1,500 and it is possible only due to the effective use of Information Technology.î

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BSNL IS THE fastest telecom service providerÖ We are making focused and planned initiatives on urban-rural digital divide in the country. In state government, our major initiatives are on Jharkhand, all district headquarters, division headquarters are connected with MPLS (Multi Protocol Label Switching).î

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Chief Vigilance Officer, Container Corporation of India Limited

WHEN IT cOMES to healthcare HSCC is there. With the help of this ICT, now we are involved in healthcare. We donít wish anybody to visit hospitals. In needy people should feel hassle-free in healthcare services. Our aim is to change scenario of hesitation to visit government hospitals.

We are providing Queue Management System, Hospital Information Management System to ensure your data is packed into digital form.î

Karmveer Khanna

General Manager, HSCC (India) Limited

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KK Thakur

Chief General Manager, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited

AS FAR AS industrial development in Jammu and Kashmir is concerned, we are trying to attract as much investment we can. We are in the process of developing industrial corridors in different districts of the state. Cheapest land and cheapest electricity is the biggest plus of Jammu and Kashmir and thatís the reason why PSUs and other organisations are eying for investment in the state.î

Amit Sharma

Managing Director, J&K State Industrial Development Corporation Limited

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that we do for employment opportunities, we make it inclusive and address all those citizens that are there in each and every district of Jharkhand. Language is the major challenge while setting an examination service. For any effective examination delivery, we have three important myths - People, Process and Technology. These constituent enables to deliver the project to different kind of audience.î

WE ARE wORKINg with all the departments across states, across ministries, departments like finance, agriculture, healthcare planning. In governance, we are associated with all the departments to help them in solving problems. We provide statistical analytics it allows you to find out why. The answer is that if I could look through your data then I can analyse all demands that are rising and provide solutions.î

Vishakha Dongre

Practice Head-Public Sector, SAS

Daljeet Singh

Head-Government Business, MeritTrac

'FORCEPOINT' IS A real-time technology, designed to stop ransomware attacks. We use analytics, security analytics to develop technologies, to develop solutions in real time to block ransomware attacks. There are three solutions to avoid attacks ie. create awareness, invest in back-ups and invest in active technology which can effect on machine in a fast way.

Our technologies are helping in avoiding hacking of confidential records.î

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Channel Head-India, FORCEPOINT

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I THINK FUTURE of government is beyond data, future of the

THE MOBILE PHONE Manufacturer of India, Fastrack trans-

governance is technology based interactions. It should be 100% technological which can be delivered to the last person in democracy. The voting must be through mobile devices.

To change the governance, if we need to have technology in India, we have to take it to the person who is receiving the policy and governance .î

port has been set up where 500 million handsets are to be made by 2019, 5.5 million get to be employed and the estimated export will go out to 30 million to 20 million. I want to highlight that we employ women on large numbers, if we are inputting and encouraging this industry at various levels, itís a game changer and in coming generations, they will give their inputs to control the economic power. î

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President & Executive Director, Persistent Systems

WE HAVE VIDEO analytics, it is going to be assets control property zero electrical outages which suddenly still a challenge in our state and for connectivity we have multiple DH3 agents. We are trying to take the connectivity from your server to our knock and then doing monitoring for you and keep you on hotline whenever there is a time of need.î

Chander Kohli

Executive Director, Indian Cellular Association

WE NEED TO focus on leveraging of IT in the Banking Sectors and others so that it can reach to rural population and to remote, Non-Banking areaís population. IT is leveraging techniques that can be used to harness the empowerment of such people for example 24x7 services, Automatic ATMs, issuing of smart cards and kissan cards to rural prople so that the ease to society can be empowered.î POLICY MAKER's perspective

Vivek Tulsyan Director, Maple

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Padma Jaiswal

Secretary, Department of Cooperation, Government of Goa

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GOVERNMENT OF JHARKHAND has aligned its own scheme with the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT). Not only the central scheme but all the state schemes. All the beneficiaries schemes will be through DBT. Right now we are in the midst of feeding, mapping and making accounts DBT enabled in association with all the banks.î

Satendra Singh

Secretary, Department of Expenditure, Government of Jharkhand

Industry Presentation

FOR SKILLED JHARKHAND state, we are in constant engagement with various government agencies like National Skill Development Corporation, Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana, National Skill Development Agency and Niti Aayog.

We are willing to give them support in terms of knowledge.

We are ready to give support in terms of finance.î

Samir Pachauri

Executive Vice President, Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited

WE ARE cApTURINg the market, getting confidence from public departments. About 1,000 government departments accounts and services are with us for payment gateways. We are providing these services to 25 states, dealing with 200 plus municipal corporations, 78 governmental institutes, 16 tourism boards. We are the largest partner at IRCTC website i.e. our bank has been used the maximum time on this railway booking website.î

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Deputy Vice President, HDFC Bank

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WE ARE TRYing to implement the process of Direct Benefit Transfer mission country wide. We want every state to follow it, they should synchronise their activities around it. In this sense, Jharkhand is our customer in DBT. We want government of Jharkhand to follow this architecture in all their schemes.î

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DBT STANDS FOR Direct Benefit Transfer where in benefits are given on an individual basis. For that Aadhaar seeding is one of the key things.The approximate Aadhaar seeding in Jharkhand is about 76 %. It is better than many states.

We need to ensure that correct seeding is done so that benefits are delivered to the right person.î

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Director, Direct Benefit Transfer, Government of India

THE MAIN THINg is that how can we deliver benefits to the correct person. Banks can play the part of a connection in between government and the beneficiary. State Bank of India has more than 28,000 crores accounts. Every fifth account of India is with us. We have more than 550 branches here in Jharkhand. We have 28 % of market share in this state. With this reach we are taking DBT to beneficiaries.î

Vikas verma

Assistant General Manager, State Bank of India, Ranchi

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Sudipta Kumar Mukherjee General Manager, Bank of India

COMMON SERVIcE CENTRE (CSC) is one centre which plays the role of an assistant model. Any common man can take any government related service at CSC including banking, insurance, recharge of mobile and set top box, applying for jobs etc. We are offering around 1,500 services through our centres. This is the only model in India which is offering so many services. î

Rishi Raj Singh

Vice President and Principal officer, CSC e Governance services India Ltd.

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THE UNIQUE THINgS which are being done in the state of Uttar Pradesh is that we have 24X7 toll free transport helpline numbers. We have abolished border checkpoints. Near about 41 % of the vehicle tax is being deposited online. We are the first state to provide online fee submission facility for learner driving license.ĂŽ K RAVINDEr NAIk

Transport Commissioner, Government of Uttar Pradesh

WE ARE TRYINg to fit all the passenger vehicles with the CCTV and connect it with our control rooms so that we know that the vehicle is plying on which route, whether it is going on time or not etc. It is a centralised monitoring of the vehicles through which we ensure the safety of our passengers.ĂŽ Dr C S KUMAr

Transport Commissioner, Government of Odisha

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VIDEO gOVERNANcE (V gOVERNANcE) is the next generation evolution. This is a new kind of backbone we have developed with a lot of state governments and nodal agencies.

Government of Jharkhand has implemented our solutions and we have made customised applications on top of the video infrastructure for them which is called as e-mulakat or v-mulakat.î

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IF wE SEE smart city as a whole, we have lot of structured data which is given to the data centre. Then all of it gets stored, analysed and this data is used for further course of action. For example, in solid waste management, the data has to be analysed for at least one year, only then can we determine, how much landfills do we require.î

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Saikat Ghosh

Senior Systems Engineer, Juniper Networks

THE AMOUNT OF data being collected, the IT infrastructure

IN A SMART cITY, people are supposed to have vehicle traf-

being used and at the same time, if you look at the city services on top of it, because all these services will be opening up outside, it becomes important that how all these things are secured. Application programming interfaces (APIs) is what everybody today is looking at. By using this technology, you can create new services much faster in a secured fashion.î

fic management,solid waste management etc. Any smart city in future will have automated vehicles which can work in a predictable manner and will give a very predictable journey. To achieve all of this, we need a mesh of appliance, applications and system oriented architecture.î

Prashant Chaudhary

Senior Director and Head-Business Development-Public Sector, CA Technologies

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WE HAVE MADE some efforts for energy saving in the

TO ENSURE pARTIcIpATION of everybody, we want to e-literate

state. We are converting street lighting and all the lighting system under Municipal Corporation to LED.We have started implementing solar plants in the state with the help of Renewable Energy Department.î

at least one person from each family so that everybody contributes to the growth of the country. We want to create a secure and foolproof cyber space so that users and traders can be provided with a trustworthy environment. To achieve this we want to open more centres and hire professionally trained people.î

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Smart City Nodal Officer, Dehradun Municipal Corporation

Dr D K Mishra

Additional Director and Director-In-Charge, National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology

OUR CHOIcE BASED Credit (CBC) system allows any student of one discipline to take up subject from any other discipline as well. Then we have Saptdhara which is various extra curricular activities for the overall holistic development of the students. Using the technology is the only solution to end the paucity and non accessibility of the faculty.î Sandeep Sharma

Officer on Special Duty, Commissionerate of Higher Education, Government of Gujarat

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FOR A START Up, Jharkhand has a lot of potential because of various reasons, like abundant mineral resources, water, no floods, earthquake resistant, sun throughout the year, innocent tribal people, lot of good educational institutes etc.

Government is friendly for start ups.

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WE ARE wORKINg for global clients. We are working for gas majors, FMCG majors. We are serving those clients right here from Ranchi. Government works much more efficiently than the private system. The kind of complexities which are involved in the decision making process, that is what we need to change. It is just about understanding the process.î

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Chief Executive Officer, Jharkhand Agency for Promotion of IT (JAP-IT)

Amitesh Anand CEO, 366 PI

THERE ARE LOT of things happening in Jharkhand for start AS A START Up, today if I want to get in the government and do a project, it's a big task. If I just go on a small tender, I canít apply because there are a lot of limitations even for the application process. So policies need to be made simpler and easy for us.î

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ups. New policies are being made and changed, lot of startups are coming up or planning to come up in this part of the country. We need a proper framework for these startups to flourish. Start ups should be made sustainable and they in turn should benefit the society.î

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