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Smt. Sonia Gandhi, Chairperson, National Advisory Council, will inaugurate the mobile equipment manufacturing facility set up by the Indian Telephone Industries (ITI), tomorrow at Mankapur, near Gonda in U.P, in the presence of Shri Dayanidhi Maran, Minister of Communications & Information Technology, Dr. Shakeel Ahmad, Minister of State for Communications & Information Technology and Mr. Serge Tchuruk, Chairman, Alcatel of France. The Chairmen of BSNL & MTNL will receive the first consignment from Smt. Sonia Gandhi and Shri Dayanidhi Maran. The technology used by ITI is the state-of-the-art, GPRS compliant and capable of providing all value added services including migration path to 3G systems.
ITI has set up this plant on transfer of technology basis at the initiative of Shri Dayanidhi Maran in his efforts towards revival of this sick unit. ITI Mankapur is the first plant where the manufacturing facility has been set up under the revival plan of ITI for which the Government has allocated a financial package of approximately Rs. 1000 crore. The existing infrastructure of ITI has been augmented with an additional capital expenditure of Rs. 38 crore to establish manufacturing capacity of one million lines per annum. Capacity shall be enhanced by 3 million lines with incremental capital expenditure of Rs. 7 crore by September, 2005.
The indigenous mobile equipments presently manufactured by ITI, besides meeting the requirement of domestic needs will also have the potential for overseas market, particularly in SAARC and Afro-Asian countries. ITI has plans to explore export market in line with its technology provider.
It may be recalled that Mankapur Plant of ITI was set up in collaboration with CIT Alcatel in 1982. The plant started production of E-10B Switches during 1985-86 followed by production of Subscriber Racks of OCB-283 Technology. The present tie-up in the field of Mobile Products will not only give a boost to the 'more than two-decade' relationship but also strengthen the communication network infrastructure in the country.
The following steps are being taken for rejuvenation of ITI units:
Additional 3 million line GSM equipment manufacturing facility at ITI Rai Bareilly and also to manufacture towers, shelters and power plants used for setting up mobile networks
ITI Bangalore to manufacture CDMA infrastructure equipment and CDMA handset
ITI Palakkad to fabricate the next-generation network products
ITI Naini to manufacture optical range of products
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