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Shri Dayanidhi Maran, Minister of Communications & Information Technology had invited Japanese investment in the booming Indian Telecom Industry and services sector. During a bilateral talks between Indian and Japanese side, Shri Maran invited the other side to look seriously towards India for diversifying their manufacturing investments and leveraging India’s IT capabilities. Presently, Shri Maran is leading a high level delegation to Japan on the invitation of Mr. Taro Aso, Minister for Internal Affairs and Communication, Japan.
Shri Maran held discussions with Mr. Aso on telecommunications and IT sector and reviewed the follow up on the decisions taken during the Asia Pacific Telecommunity Conference held in Bangkok. In a joint statement signed by both the sides in Tokyo, it was agreed to set a timeframe for the constitution of a Joint Task Force for identifying specific areas of cooperation and for taking forward the cooperation between the two sides in the identified areas and sectors. Some of the specific areas suggested by the Indian side were embedded-software, VLSI design, CAD/CAM, Telecom solution, software systems etc. Likewise the sectors suggested include automobile manufacturing, aerospace, banking, etc. It was also agreed to promote joint R&D and standardisaton for ubiquitous service and network technology. Further, technical cooperation in application of ICT products and services were also identified. It was also decided to hold the ministerial level meeting alternatively in Japan and India, annually so as to sustain impetus to the cooperation.
Shri Maran, during his wide-ranging talks with his counterpart in Tokyo, elaborated India’s efforts on Asia Broadband Programme, as also about the setting up of the NIXI for ‘.in’ domain name registration and testing of Quality of service of Ipv6 launched by ERNET, the State Wide Area Network (SWAN) initiative for e-governance applications and the areas for collaboration in machine translation, language computing and network solutions, etc. Issues like ‘withholding tax’ and such other causing impediments to the growth of the ICT sector were also figured during the talks and the Indian side requested to resolve these issues by early intervention. Shri Maran visited Panasonic Centre in Tokyo and got acquainted with the current research on the technologies of the future. Shri Maran also met the heads of major Japanese and Indian Companies in Tokyo like Hitachi, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi Electrical, NEC, TCS, HCL, Infosys, etc. Shri Maran extended invitation to the Japanese companies to participate in the forthcoming “Indiasoft 2005” Exhibition to be held in Chennai during March.
RM/AMA- 200105 MCIT Japan visit
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