Goa CM Manohar Parrikar promises to extend all possible support to push hardware manufacturing and disposing off e-waste in the state.
Manufacturers’ Association for Information Technology (MAIT) recently organised a national workshop on Electronic System Design and Manufacturing: Advantage Goa under the aegis of the Department of Electronics & IT and the Govt of Goa. Inaugurating the workshop, Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar promised to provide a clear state IT policy by around the time of the budget presentation this year.
Emphasising that the focus on ESDM should not be only aimed at reducing the trade gap, the chief minister said that there was a need to have local base for electronic system design and manufacturing within India in view of the country’s security requirements.
“It is our patriotic duty to promote manufacturing of electronic systems design products in India as most of the security equipment are manufactured in other countries like China which poses a major security threat for the country,” he said. Besides he pledged his support to MAIT in the implementation of policies.
The minister further promised to extend all possible support to push hardware manufacturing and disposing off e-waste in the state.
Speaking at the inaugural session, J V Ramamurthy, president, MAIT and president and COO, HCL Infosystems Ltd, said: “This initiative under the aegis of the Department of Electronics & Information Technology and the Govt of Goa presents a huge opportunity for the state to become an electronics hardware manufacturing hub to meet its domestic requirements as well as the global requirements.” He further elaborated on the need for self-sufficiency in the manufacturing in the country and the low dependence on imports.
