Dwelling on the vision of
‘Technology for India’, Mr Vipin Tyagi, Executive Director, Centre for
Development of Telematics urged the industry to make a conscious choice of
being a creator of technology. Drawing the attention of the gathering to
interesting facts and figures related to the unimaginable need for
digitization, particularly in the rural areas, Mr Tyagi strongly recommended
indigenous research and development as key to achieving the desired objectives.
Mr Tyagi was addressing the National Seminar on Office
Automation and Imaging Industry, organized by CII today in Delhi
Earlier addressing the gathering, Mr
S N Srivastava, Additional Director General (Supply), Directorate General
of Supply & Disposal, said that with effect from 1 January 2015
DGS&D would achieve complete digitization, doing away with the manual
processing of files that’s currently being followed. Emphasizing
the potential of the industry in delivering the ambitious objectives of
‘Digital India’, Mr Srivastava talked about the need for strengthening of
infrastructure, better standards and robust testing facilities.
Lending his views on the occasion, Mr
S N Tripathi, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium
Enterprises highlighted the role of digitization as a significant
tool for ‘democratization of information’. Mr Tripathi further elaborated
on the positive part that digitization can play in the growth and expansion of
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.
While acknowledging the
indispensable role being played by digitization in creating an energy efficient
economy, Mr Saurabh Diddi shared BEE’s progressive vision of making
energy efficiency standards mandatory over a period of time.
Introducing the theme of the
Seminar, Dr Bhardwaj welcomed the ‘fresh air of leadership by the new
Government’ and assured that with new energy and enthusiasm instilled by this
leadership, the Office Automation & Imaging Industry would be able to
realize the objectives envisaged including ‘Digital India’.
The
Seminar provided a platform to highlight and deliberate on the strategic
importance of OA&I products in realizing the vision of smart & secure
nation, imparting need based and customized skills, extending the reach of
existing pedagogic system and enhancing the quality of education, harnessing
the demographic dividend, identify potential areas of application where the
deployment of OA&I products would result in higher productivity, efficiency
and in turn result in raising quality of life.
The Office Automation & Imaging
(OA&I) sector has come to be recognized as key to personal and
organizational productivity. The product categories covered by this sector are
integral to Information Communication Technology (ICT) industry and are
increasingly finding tremendous opportunity in myriad of applications be it in
e-Governance, Education, Healthcare, Insurance, Rural Development, Smart
cities, Surveillance etc. and playing a vital role in empowering inclusive
growth and making the businesses more efficient. The ‘Digital India’
initiative is one of the most focused agenda for the Govt. and OA&I
products would be the key to realizing Government’s vision of Digital India
and Smart Cities.
In the above background, the CII
Office Automation & Imaging Division organized the fifth edition of its Annual
Event with the theme Digital India for Skilled, Smart & Secure Nation.
New Delhi
10 December 2014