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      <center><b>Skilling and employment Opportunities in the ESDM sector under Aatma Nirbhar Bharat</b></center>
      <center><b>23rd September 2020 | 10:00AM to 12:30 PM</b></center>
      <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Speaker Details:</b></p>
      <p style='text-align:justify;'><b> Inaugural Chief Guest: Dr. C N Aswathnarayana,</b> Hon\&apos;ble Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka and 
        Hon\&apos;ble Minister of IT, BT and S & T, Government of Karnataka</p>
        <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Moderator:</b> Shri. Arvind Bali, CEO, Telecom Skill Sector Council</p>
        <p style='text-align:justify;'><b> Speakers: </b></p>
        <p style='text-align:justify;'> • Shri. B V Naidu, Chairman- ASSOCHAM Karnataka; Managing Partner, StartupXseed & Founder 
        and Chairman, THE GAIN</p>
        <p style='text-align:justify;'> • Shri. Pankaj Mohindroo, Chairman, ICEA & Hon&apos;ble Secretary TSSC</p>
        <p style='text-align:justify;'>•  s. Meena Nagaraj C. N. IAS, Managing Director, Karnataka Innovation and Technology Society 
        (KITS), Government of Karnataka<p> 
        <p style='text-align:justify;'>• Shri. Sujai Karampuri, Director - Electronics, ITE&C Department and MD - Telangana Fiber Grid 
        Corporation and CEO - T-Works, Government of Telangana </p>
        <p style='text-align:justify;'> • Shri. Pankaj Mohindroo, Chairman, ICEA & Hon&apos;ble Secretary TSSC</p>
        <p style='text-align:justify;'>• Shri. Pradip Punwatkar, Assistant Vice President, Learning Platforms & Operations, Reliance Jio 
        Infocomm Ltd </p>
        <p style='text-align:justify;'>• Shri. Sandeep Bhargava, Managing Partner - Alliances, Karo Sambhav Private Limited</p>
        <p style='text-align:justify;'> • Shri. Gururaj A, Chair - Manufacturing Committee, ASSOCHAM Karnataka</p>
        <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Uma S Nair </b>- Welcomed the panellists and welcomed the participants and partners to the program.</p>
        <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Shri. BV Naidu</b> - Welcomed the esteemed panellists and shared that these esteemed panel members. 
        Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this online summit to share the perspective about the Skilling 
        Employment is the need of the hour in the State. He urged the Industry members and supporting bodies 
        to come forward to tackle the challenges in the Skilling sector. He was happy to share that Karnataka 
        become the 2nd largest hub Electronic manufacturer in the World. Suggested to focus more producing 
        quality from the manufacturing the sector and increase in volumes of production. It is estimated to 
        produce 200 million mobile phones in the country, he stressed the telecom sector to be prepared to 
        produce and create the employment and platform ready. </p>
        <p style='text-align:justify;'>He said, Karnataka is the first State to formulate the ESDM Policy with attractive benefits to create the 
        State as the ESDM hub in the Country. In the State there is an excellent set of leadership drive the Industry 
        needs and huge potential to invest and make use of this excellent opportunity. </p>
        <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Shri. Arvind Bali </b>- Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this important online summit and welcomed the 
        fellow panelists, representatives from the government and participants. He said the current focus in the 
        country is on Electronics, the provided the how India came a long way in creating the manufacturing hug 
        to manufacture locally and Ministry of Electronics has supported them accordingly. He highlighted that 
        huge increase in the parts imports from Defense and Electronics sectors.</p>
        <p style='text-align:justify;'> He said that compared to any other industry, telecom sector requires a very highly skilled manpower to 
        fill the requirement. As the telecom sector is a very versatile sector comes with new technology very now 
        and then, so the skilling requires a regular upgradation and trainings to adopt with new technologies, TSSC 
        plays a very important role in technology upgradation and training them for newer technology. He said 
        the southern States in India are contributing more in creating more manufacturing hubs for telecom 
        sector. </p>
        <p style='text-align:justify;'><b> Shri. Pankaj Mohindroo</b> - Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this important online summit and 
        welcomed the fellow panelists. He said India was ahead of China in early 90&apos;s in per capita income, 
        currently we are one fifth of China&apos;s per capita income. He said currently India contributes 3.2% of world 
        GDP with about 18% population which is very alarming position, suggested to come of this situation and 
        industry policy to come out of the economic situation. He urged the manufactures to focus more 
        importing goods to manufacture mobile phones locally. Suggested that ICEA targets to increase the export 
        revenue to 0.5 trillion to the Country in the Electronic sector. The ICEA targets to increase the mobile 
        exports to the domestic market target to reach by 80 billion dollar by 2025. ICEA created the plan to export 
        IT hardware from India to Global markets. </p>
        <p style='text-align:justify;'> He suggested to change the complete thought process in skilling as the domestic markets are saturated. 
        The entire labour force to be extremely competitive to the global markets in terms of quality and output. 
        There a great lesson to be learnt from the competitive markets such as China and Vietnam, the Country 
        needs to make friendly environment to increase the export in electronics sector as one of the focus. He 
        said India has major opportunity as people strength and geographical dividend, should make use of such 
        opportunity to compete with Global markets.</p>
        <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Shri. Pradip Punwatkar</b> - Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this important online summit and welcomed 
        the fellow panelists. He said Reliance JIO&apos;s 5G announcement and benefits are vast such as 10x faster 
        network compared to the current network and JIO is currently working on building the 5G network in the 
        country. The ground force who monitors the optical fiber networks to maintain the bandwidth. Optical 
        fiber are the backbone of 5G network. It is very critical to upgrade the ground force to up skill from 4G to 
        5G network. To seek the availability of the skilled force very important in telecom sector. JIO had planned 
        reach out ITI colleges across the country to train them with latest technology and skilling and create the 
        employability locally. JIO has partnered with TSSC and NSDC to create a pool of skilled work force and 
        employed locally as per the requirement. </p>
        <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>  s. Meena Nagaraj C. N. IAS </b.- Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this important online summit and 
        welcomed the fellow panelists. She was happy note that Karnataka state can contribute about 7.5% of the 
        country&apos;s GDP in the Manufacturing sector. The Karnataka is already working with Ministry of Skills from 
        past 3 years in Skilling in the ESDM sector. She also highlighted there is huge gap in skilling work force, 
        assured that Government of Karnataka will support all the required areas. The state announced in the 
        current year budget that the program on Talent Acceleration which is a high end skilling for the industry. 
        Also the Government will look at providing the upskill to the students of ITI&apos;s and Polytechnics basis the 
        industry requirement with the minimal guarantee on employment in the sector. 
        Also mentioned that the State Government has formed various committee and under Chief Secretary and 
        ACS to streamline the telecom and Fiber sector, there is has been lot of consultation has been done to 
        improvise the in the areas to create the employment and assured full support from the Government the 
        industry members. </p>
        <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Shri. Sujai Karampuri </b>- Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this important online summit and welcomed 
        the fellow panelists. He said the Telangana state is working towards to create the hub Electronic 
        manufactures in the Country. The state had focused on various recent trends of the industry and have 
        attracted various electronic manufactures, consumer electronics in recent years. The state had worked 
        key elements such as promises and subsidies to the manufacturers. The Department have worked closely 
        with local ITI&apos;s to create employment where they nearer to manufacturing zones. The State&apos;s frame is 
        more friendly and flexible for industry in constructing their own way of facility and the utilization.</p> 
        <p style='text-align:justify;'> The Telangana created a TASK (Telangana Academy for Skill and Knowledge) was established by the 
        Government of Telangana for enhancing skilling synergy among institutions of Government, Industry & 
        Academia. TASK Grants access to modules for enhancing their technology, personal and organisation skills 
        at highly subsidized rates. Our programmes help corporates gain access to a pool of trained graduates for 
        suitable roles. Our students are trained extensively in latest technology to help companies find the right 
        candidate.</p>
        <p style='text-align:justify;'><b> Shri. Sandeep Bhargava </b> - Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this important online summit and 
        welcomed the fellow panelists. He said the industry has gone much ahead and have to be prepared for 
        Automation, Embedded systems and so on. He stressed to create a pool of skilling for repairing and recycle 
        of electronic goods in the country. Also suggested to make use of the current covid situation to train the 
        work force remotely and upgadation, these times thought us to adopt to newer way to learn things. He 
        suggested to make availability of place to reside for the work force near the plants which helps in reducing 
        the pollution and travel time. </p>
        <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Shri. Gururaj A</b> - Thanked the ASSOCHAM for hosting this important online summit and welcomed the 
        fellow panelists. He said that challenges of MSME&apos;s and Medium scale industries, the is situation post 
        covid there where movement of work force to their native and lack of man power the factory, this covid 
        created a challenge for the workforce due the non-geopolitical presence anybody can work from 
        anywhere, this cause the movement of work force to bigger companies. Also it is an opportunity to the 
        MSME&apos;s and Medium scale industry are in urgent need to create a pool of local skilled work force for 
        employment in the State. He suggested to TSSC to create a short time course to and partner with State 
        Government formulate a joint collaboration to skill the work force. He suggested to focus more on 
        creating the local skilled work force availability in the State.</p> 
        <p style='text-align:justify;'><b> Dr. C N Ashwathnarayan</b> - Shared the message to the participants -</p>
        <p style='text-align:justify;'> Karnataka is known to be a Centre of hi-tech industry, contributing significantly to the country&apos;s revenues 
        from information technology, biotechnology, ESDM, aerospace and other technology sectors. The best 
        and the largest global companies across sectors have their R&D and innovation centres here. Karnataka is 
        the fourth largest contributor to electronic industrial output in the country and contributes to 10% of the 
        country&apos;s electronic industrial output with a recorded growth rate of 18% CAGR during 2008-2013. It has 
        the second fastest growing start-up ecosystem in the world and is home to billion-dollar Indian start-ups.</p> 
        <p style='text-align:justify;'>Karnataka is on the move of making Karnataka into a global ESDM hub and a hotbed of innovation through 
        focused interventions and encouragement to local companies in the sector with creation of 20 Lacs new 
        jobs in the ESDM industry by 2025; both direct and indirect, thereby increasing the total workforce in the 
        sector to ten times the present number.</p> 
        <p style='text-align:justify;'> Karnataka\&apos;s economy is centered on its IT ecosystem that is one of the biggest contributors to the central 
        coffers. But the covid-19 induced lockdown has further exacerbated Karnataka&apos;s fledgling finances and 
        acute fund crunch. The reduction in cash inflows from the centre has forced the state into more debt and 
        also amending laws on industries, labour and land to attract more investments into the state.</p>
        <p style='text-align:justify;'>The cabinet also cleared special incentives for the newly proposed Electronics System Design and 
        Manufacturing or ESDM cluster. The cabinet approved capital investment subsidy of 25% on land, 
        complete reimbursement on costs like stamp duty and registration, land conversion rate. It also proposed 
        ₹1 per unit for five years from the month of commercial production, 100% exemption from duty on 
        electricity. The cabinet also approved 1% of annual turn. An investment of over ₹5,000 crore is expected 
        by the state through this scheme, with a potential to generate 43,000 direct employment over next 5 
        years,the government said in a statement.
        <p style='text-align:justify;'> In view of <b> Nava Karnataka Vision 2025 and Karnataka Electronics System Design & Manufacturing 
        (KESDM) - 2017-22,</b> the State Government promises to roll out the red carpet for investment in the ESDM 
        Sector, promising EoDB through investor friendly policies and programmes. The State aims to create 2 lac 
        jobs by 2025.</p>