Industry News: Information and Communications
The Urgent Need for Digital Transformation in Indian Healthcareedit
Thus, digitalization of healthcare allows for care beyond the bounds of the hospital and into the limits of your own home. With the increasing number of patients demanding health care services, often the infrastructure falls short. And hence, healthcare providers are now increasingly shifting towards remote monitoring services like telemonitoring and IoT connected wearables. These biosensing wearables can track and monitor real-time changes in the health of patients and store the data to the health records of the patients. This data can be used for early diagnosis and to provide real-time health support to patients.
digitalizationIoTCryptojacking skyrockets; massive threat to cyber, personal securityedit
With a low barrier of entry – only requiring a couple lines of code to operate – cybercriminals are harnessing stolen processing power and cloud CPU usage from consumers and enterprises to mine cryptocurrency. Symantec found a 600 per cent increase in overall IoT attacks in 2017. Macs are not immune either with Symantec detecting an 80 per cent increase in coin mining attacks against Mac OS. India ranks among the top five countries as a source for IoT attacks.
crypto currencycyber criminalsABI Research Identifies Six Transformative Technologies Impacting Industrial Manufacturingedit
What are the top technologies industrial visionaries need to be aware of now and, more importantly, why and how will those technologies impact their industry? To answer that important question, ABI Research, a market foresight advisory firm providing strategic guidance on the most compelling transformative technologies, identified six technologies, along with big-picture questions and answers, to help guide senior industrial leaders to make key transformative technology decisions.
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India’s EV Sector is Slowly Emerging from its Nascent Stageedit
India’s electric vehicle sector is progressing steadily, thanks to government efforts to procure EVs for various departments and efforts by city transportation corporations to procure e-buses for public transportation. As things shape up for the better in the country’s EV sector, various national and international players are being drawn into the rapidly expanding and dynamic industry, making it increasingly competitive.
EV SectorWhy it’s tough to run electric buses hereedit
While India is witnessing a growing interest in shifting to electric mobility, especially buses, experts feel that supporting infrastructure will have to keep pace with the growth in the number of such vehicles in the coming years. One of the reasons behind the growing interest is the Centre’s initiatives to incentivise electric mobility.
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Skill development in India: Training to be a better economyedit
Globalisation and the Fourth Industrial Revolution have increased the pace of change in labour markets, putting a premium on right skills and adaptability. Public policies should now shift to empowering and enabling workers to cope with transition, via income support, and also support incentives and opportunities for deskilling and upgrading skills.
Skill DevelopmentSkill development trainingSchemes to upgrade Skill of Artisans by HRD Ministryedit
The Office of Development Commissioner (Handicrafts) under the Ministry of Textiles has formulated Human Resource Development (HRD) Scheme to upgrade the skill of the artisans and to provide the qualified and trained workforce to the handicraft sector. Indian handicrafts products are made by hand whereas in China and other countries the craft products are largely mechanized. Indian artisans are skilled and well equipped to compete in the global market.
Skill DevelopmentIndia needs inclusive and employment-based developmentedit
India is also working towards fulfilling this goal and generating employment for all. Various schemes like Skill India, Make in India, Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMGEP), Pradhan Mantri Rojgar Protsahan Yojana, and Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana play an important role in this. The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship was formed in 2014 by the government. After which the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana was launched in 2015. Its aim was to develop the skill of the youth to make them self-employed. But there were many obstacles to the success of this scheme.
Skill DevelopmentSkill indiaHaryana Skill Development Mission signs pact with five sector skill councils, HVSUedit
In order to provide the registered youth with skill training in various trades, Haryana Skill Development Mission today signed Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) with five sector skill councils and Haryana Vishwakarma Skill University (HVSU) under Saksham Yuva Yojana. The first level target of Skill Development is to impart training to 30800 youths and the main five trades include Telecom, Agriculture, Electronics, Apparel and Life Sciences.
Skill DevelopmentSkill development training‘Skill India’ urgently needs reformsedit
Finally, we need more reflection from stakeholders on the actual value addition done by the skilling initiative. The NSDC, which was envisioned as a public-private partnership, receives 99% of its funding from government, but its flagship scheme has a less than 12% record of placement for trainees. The NSQF framework has seen little adoption in private sector. And, more than two-thirds of courses developed have not trained even one student so far. India can surely become the world’s skill capital but not with what it is doing right now.
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Wind energy capacity addition declines under auction regimeedit
By Kaavya Chandrasekaran
While the onset of wind auctions from early last year has led to greater transparency in the determination of wind tariffs, the transition has also sharply reduced wind capacity addition in 2017-18. The capacity added has only been 1,739.14 MW through the year against a target of 4,500 MW, and far less than the 5,400 MW added in 2016-17 or even the 3,460 MW achieved in 2015-16. In both 2016-17 and 2015-16, wind capacity addition had surpassed its target, while in 2017-18 it has fallen well short.
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The Shivraj government has promoted new and renewable energy in a big way that has resulted in installed capacity of 3,823 MW. The world’s largest 750 MW solar power plant is coming up in Rewa district and 131 MW plant is already functional at Neemuch.
Renewable EnergySolar Powersolar power plantHonours even for global, local players in 2000 MW SECI wind auction, tariffs rise marginallyedit
By Kaavya Chandrasekaran
Wind tariffs climbed marginally in the latest reverse auction of 2,000 MW held by Solar Corporation of India (SECI) on Thursday, with winning tariffs reaching Rs 2.51-2.52 per unit. This was marginally higher than the tariff of Rs 2.44-2.45 per unit reached at the last SECI auction, also for 2000 MW, held in February. Among the eight winners, honours were equally divided between global and local companies. The four global giants to win projects were Singapore-based Continuum Wind Energy’s special purpose vehicle Srijan Energy Systems, which got 250 MW; Sprng Energy, backed by UK-based development fund Actis LLP, which won 300 MW; Italian power giant Enel-backed BLP Energy, which got 280 MW and French ...wind energyWind tariffs
Global investment in solar energy broke a record in 2017edit
The world investment in solar energy again beats a new record in 2017, with USD 160,800 million,18 percent more than in any other energy (renewable, fossil or nuclear), and with China leading the way, according to a report published this Thursday by the United Nations – Environment (UNEP).
Renewable EnergySolar EnergyIndia generates more renewable energy than the total electricity generated by Belgiumedit
India has achieved a new staggering milestone, as its energy sector generated one lakh gigawatt hours (GWh) of electricity in a single year for the first time from renewable sources of energy.
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Last year, the world installed a record 98 gigawatts of new solar capacity, far more than the net additions of the rest – other renewables, fossil fuel and nuclear, according to the Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2018 report, released Thursday by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and its partners.
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