May 5, 2017

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Indian CIOs keen to capitalise on futuristic technologies for transformation: surveyedit

Data Quest

Specifically key trends like the Internet of Things (IOT), Robotic process automation (RPA), Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Virtual Reality (VR) have piqued the interest of CIOs and it is increasingly incumbent on businesses to adopt these disruptive technologies to yield better business outcomes.

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India’s IT infrastructure spending projected to reach $2.2 billion in 2017edit

IB Times

The Narendra Modi government’s demonetisation initiative towards a cashless economy is expected to have a far reaching impact on the country’s IT infrastructure as it calls for greater focus on various deciding factors. What makes the vision of a digital India more promising is a steady growth in areas like cloud computing, internet of things (IoT) and broadband penetration, which will generate a huge demand for a strong IT infrastructure.

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Gartner: Public Cloud 2.0 drives India IT infrastructure spendingedit

Business World

Mishra also highlighted some of the new areas of investment, which include smart city deployments and IoT initiatives. “Customers continue to invest in technology to save money, and use some of those savings for new projects,” said Mishra. “The new investments in smart cities, for instance, are fuelling the marketplace.”

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Tech statistics for enterprisesedit

Mint

The latest Internet of Things (IoT) strategies report, ‘IoT Cellular Connections by Industry Vertical, Bandwidth and Region,’ by research firm Strategy Analytics has projected that IoT cellular connections will grow significantly through 2025.

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With IoT a new normal networking paradigm is emergingedit

Data Quest

By Shrikanth G

Manufacturing has emerged as one of the high growth sectors in India as well . The Government of India has set an ambitious target of increasing the contribution of manufacturing output to 25 per cent of GDP by 2025, from 16 per cent currently – a target which can only be achieved by adoption of new technology to improve processes and increase output.

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Industry News: Education

Research in higher education must for sustainable growth: Prakash Javadekaredit

The Indian Express

Noting that India and China prospered on the back of reverse engineering and low wages, HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar today stressed on encouraging research in higher education in the country to ensure sustainable growth.

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Skilled youth: All dressed up, but nowhere to go?edit

The Asian Age

Realising the need for getting nation’s millions of unemployed youth, who are unable to complete formal education beyond high school, a National Apprenticeship Scheme was started in 1959 on a voluntary basis. After getting the initial feedback a historical Apprentices Act was passed in 1961.

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Capacity additions in renewable energy on par with thermal power in 2016-17edit

The Hindu Business Line

For the first time in the country, capacity additions in the renewable energy sector were close to those of the thermal power segment in 2016-17. The renewable energy sector has ended 2016-17 with a record capacity addition of 11,320 MW, though it fell short of its target (16,660 MW) for the year. Capacity additions in thermal power segment stood at 11,551 MW during the fiscal.

Renewable Energy
Wind energy to now light up Delhi; BRPL signs pact for 100 MW poweredit

ET Energy world

By Debapriya Mondal

Reliance Infrastructure owned-BSES Rajdhani Power Limited (BRPL) has signed a Memorandum of Agreement with PTC India Ltd for procuring 100 Megawatt wind-power the supply of which will start in about 18 months from now.

Renewable Energy
Kerala to be fully-electrified by end of May; solar, wind energy to be promotededit

India.com

Kerala Power Minister M.M. Mani announced on Thursday that the state is set to become the third Indian state to be fully-electrified. Speaking in the Assembly, Mani stated that each and every household in Kerala will have electricity by the end of May.

Renewable Energy
Government signs MoAs to purchase 1,000 MW wind poweredit

The Economic Times

The government today announced signing of Memorandum of Agreements (MoAs) for purchase of 1,000 MW wind power under its first wind auction scheme.

Renewable Energy
Power minister Piyush Goyal announces 1,000 Megawatt wind energy auction schemeedit

ET Energy world

By Anisha Dutta

In a major step to enhance India’s renewable energy capacity, power, coal, renewable energy and mines minister Piyush Goyal today announced a scheme for auction of wind power projects of 1,000 Megawatt (MW) capacity that will kick off soon.

Renewable Energy
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