EFY Awards 2013 announced

Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India, has been recognised for exemplary policy initiatives

efyawardsMonday, March 24 2014: The EFY Group, a premier publishing group for the electronics industry, presented the 10th edition of the EFY Awards on March 14 at a ceremony held in the Le Meridien Hotel, Bengaluru. The award, Electronics Leader of the Year, has been won by Vinod Sharma, managing director, Deki Electronics.

Receiving the award, Vinod Sharma said, “It is good to know that the industry likes and values the efforts I have put in during the past few years to boost electronics manufacturing in India.”

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A special jury award was given to the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Government of India, for its exemplary policy initiatives.

Welcoming the guests, Rahul Chopra, managing director of the EFY Group, said, “EFY Awards are an attempt to give recognition to the leading enterprises and individuals in the Indian electronics industry. Being the leading publication (EFY) in the electronics industry, we have taken the initiative to identify the frontrunners among the companies and individuals in the industry, with inputs from the electronics fraternity.”

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Receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award, T Vasu, director, Tandon Group, said, “I’m privileged to receive this award from EFY, the leading promoter of the electronics industry in the country, second to only DeitY, to which we owe our entire life. EFY Awards are certainly an encouraging catalyst.”

Rajan Shringarpure, managing director, and director, operations, Vishay Components, winner of two awards in the categories ‘Resistors’ and ‘Diodes & transistors,’ said, “We are, of course, delighted to receive two awards. To be voted the best in India in the two major products of our portfolio, by people in the industry, is a feeling that is very fulfilling.”

Accepting the award in the category of ‘Oscilloscopes’, Kapil Sood, managing director, Tektronix, said, “It’s a fantastic feeling as we have been winning this award for the last 10 years in a row. EFY is a very well respected and widely read magazine, so its readers voting for us over all these years is significant for us.”

C-DAC won the award for being the ‘Most Popular Training Institute’ for electronics. Accepting the award, Dr Kumari Roshini V S, associate director, C-DAC, said, “It’s a very proud moment for all C-DACians to receive this award. Our focus in education training is to impart whatever technology we have developed as part of C-DAC to the academic community as well as others.”

JURY AWARDS Categories Winner
Leader of the Year Vinod Sharma, managing director, Deki Electronics
Organisation of the Year NTL Electronics India Ltd
Certification of Excellence for Innovation in Electronics Manufacturing SGS Tekniks Manufacturing Pvt Ltd
Lifetime Achievement Ravinder Zutshi, deputy managing director,Samsung
Lifetime Achievement T Vasu, director, Tandon Group
Special Jury Award for Exemplary Policy Initiatives DeitY

 

EFY READERS’ CHOICE AWARDS 2nd Cell
Resistors Vishay Components
Capacitors Keltron 
Diodes & Transistors Vishay Components
Switches & Relays Omron  
Educational Kits & Trainers Vegakit 
EDA Tools Cadence
Solar Cells Moser Baer 
Sensors, Transducers & Actuators Honeywell 
Soldering & Desoldering Stations Weller
Multimeters Fluke
Oscilloscopes Tektronix
Inverters Microtek 
SMF Batteries Exide
Microcontrollers Atmel 
UPS APC
EPABX & Key Telephones Panasonic
Solar panels Tata Power Solar Systems
Connectors Molex 
CCTV Cameras Bosch
ICs for LED Drivers Texas Instruments 
Pick & Place Machines Juki 
Programmable Logic Controllers Siemens 
LEDs Osram
Training Institutions C-DAC 
EMS Organisations Flextronics
PCB Shogini

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