Cisco Marks Launch of India Manufacturing Operations to Support Make in India
Cisco Strengthens Its Manufacturing Partnership with the State of
Maharashtra
Company also announces Strategic
Digitization Initiatives to Accelerate Digital Maharashtra Vision in its
commitment to enabling the Smart Cities & Digital India vision
Mumbai, India, October 12, 2016 – Today Cisco announced the launch of its India manufacturing operations.
At the event, Cisco and the Government of Maharashtra (GoM) also announced new
local strategic initiatives to help the digital transformation of the state,
which includes the citywide deployment of a smart city framework to roll
out Smart City solutions in the city of
Nagpur, digital learning for students and skills development for local
entrepreneurs in Dharavi to create an eCommerce hub, expansion of the Cisco
Networking Academy® program, and digital education and healthcare initiatives
in Fetri village.
The launch of the
manufacturing operations took place in the presence of the Chief Minister of
Maharashtra, Shri Devendra Fadnavis; the CEO of the National Institution for
Transforming India (NITI) Aayog, Shri Amitabh Kant; Smt. Aruna Sundararajan,
Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of
India; Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins; Irving Tan, Senior Vice President, Cisco Asia
Pacific and Japan; Dinesh Malkani, President, Cisco India & SAARC; and Jun
Kim, Vice President, Cisco Supply Chain Operations.
Cisco
will manufacture and roll out a diverse product portfolio in India to support
the government’s Make in India initiative. Cisco will use its India
manufacturing operations to produce and ship orders for customers in India, as
well as for testing, development, logistics, and in-house repair
capabilities.
Cisco also announced
its ongoing commitment to accelerate Digital Maharashtra, including several
initiatives to ensure that all of India’s citizens benefit from the power of
connectivity. These initiatives include:
Nagpur: India’s First CityWide Deployment of a Smart City Framework
enabled by Cisco City Digital Platform
Cisco will roll out Smart City Solutions in Nagpur to
enable city-wide network connectivity, Smart & Secure
Wi-Fi hotspots, and Smart safety & surveillance solutions. The various
citizen services enabled by smart cities architecture, like smart transport,
solid waste management, smart lighting, environmental sensors, and smart
parking, will be integrated on Cisco’s City Digital Platform. The City
Operations Centre will have a single view of all solutions to manage the city
with increased operational efficiency and productivity, enabling them to
provide quality infrastructure and services to citizens.
Dharavi
eCommerce Hub: Bringing Digital Learning and Connectivity to Students and
Skills Development for Local Entrepreneurs
At the ceremony Cisco showcased how it was helping
digitize Sri Ganesh Vidya Mandir High School by providing the students with a virtual
classroom, digital learning and highly secure Internet connectivity. Cisco’s
initiative aims to enhance the quality of education through digital learning
for academia to connect, collaborate, create and share content with students.
After school hours, local entrepreneurs and start-ups will be able to use the
school as a platform for local innovation and help make Dharavi an e-commerce
hub.
Expansion of Cisco
Networking Academy Program to Support Skill India and Increase Maharashtra’s
Pool of Highly Trained Professionals
As part of Cisco’s commitment to accelerating Digital Maharashtra and
supporting the Maharashtra State Education Digitization agenda, the company
announced plans to establish up to 25 Cisco Networking Academies to train
approximately 10,000 students in Maharashtra by 2020. The Cisco Networking
Academy program in India has one of the largest programs for Cisco worldwide.
Across 186 academies, nationwide, more than 122,000 students have been trained
since its inception. The skills-development program is a cloud-delivered,
scalable, high-quality program that helps students learn how to design, build,
secure and maintain computer networks and prepare for jobs in the digital
economy.
Wi-Fi, Smart
Education and Smart Healthcare to Digitize Fetri Village
Underlining
its commitment to the digital transformation of Maharashtra, Cisco announced a
new initiative to digitize Fetri village in the Kato Tehsil of Nagpur district
in Maharashtra. With the intention to build a Digital Village, Cisco will
deploy key technologies including Wi-Fi, smart healthcare, and smart education
in an upper primary government school in Fetri. At the ceremony today Cisco
demonstrated how its India manufactured products will play
an integral role in Digital India by providing high performance wireless
connectivity to get access to quality education. Cisco also demonstrated how
patients can be connected with doctors conveniently and efficiently, regardless
of distance, through highly secure immersive visual experiences.
Cisco
to Collaborate on the Rollout of Broadband Infrastructure
As part of its
commitment to help the state realize its vision of Digital Maharashtra, Cisco
will collaborate on the state-wide rollout of broadband
infrastructure
to accelerate the Digital Maharashtra vision. A role
model on digital transformation for other states, Maharashtra sees the building of digital infrastructure as the most crucial step toward
achieving its vision of a Digital Maharashtra and enabling financial inclusion,
e-governance and citizen services
Supporting
Quotes:
Shri Devendra Fadnavis, Honourable Chief Minister of
Maharashtra, said, “Digital transformation has emerged as
the most transformative means to ignite sustainable growth and improve society.
Digitization creates economic competitiveness, enables ease of doing business,
improves public services, increases GDP, creates employment, and enhances the
quality of life of citizens. My vision for digital Maharashtra is to digitally
empower every citizen, increase the state’s global competitiveness by creating
a highly skilled workforce ready for the jobs of the future, build an
environment that stimulates exceptional companies, and enable outstanding
public services for citizens. We are happy to partner with Cisco in the Digital
Maharashtra initiative and we believe Cisco’s global experience and expertise
in digitization will benefit Maharashtra immensely and accelerate the
digitization of the state.”
Shri Amitabh Kant, CEO, National
Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog, said “Digitization is not just connectivity. Digitization is the
catalyst for industrial growth which has the potential to transform economies. The
manufacturing
sector is imperative to national development and raising incomes, and India will
become a digital disruptor if it embeds, converges and
integrates manufacturing and digitization. The government recognizes that Electronic
System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) can play a seminal role in enabling
India’s journey towards becoming a global manufacturing destination. I
congratulate Cisco on the inauguration of its manufacturing facility, and I
believe this is yet another milestone in strengthening India’s position as a
manufacturing hub and accelerating the economic prosperity of the country.”
Smt. Aruna Sundararajan, Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and
Information Technology, Government of India, said, “The vision of the
government’s Make in India initiative is to promote manufacturing in India both
to enable a Digital India as well as to become an export hub. The government
has identified electronics manufacturing as a strategic sector for the country
and is committed to create the right regulatory reinforcements which will
enable global supply chains to enter India and lead to supply chain
acceleration. I congratulate Cisco on the inauguration of its manufacturing
facility, and I believe it will encourage the global IT industry to view India
as a potential go-to manufacturing destination of the world.”
Chuck Robbins, CEO, Cisco, said, “Digitization opens up unprecedented opportunities for every
country, state and city. High technology manufacturing is convergence of
engineering and science. India offers a huge talent pool of highly qualified
scientists, engineers and designers along with ease of doing business,
geographic location, and proximity to suppliers and customers.Today’s
announcement reaffirms Cisco’s long-term commitment to India, a strategic
center of country digitization and innovation. We are honored to work with the
people of India to accelerate their digital economy, and help further the
government’s vision to create sustainable competitiveness and prosperity.”
Dinesh Malkani, President, Cisco India & SAARC, said, “Today's announcement underscores India's strategic importance to
Cisco's global operations. We have made significant investments in India since
we established operations in the country in 1995, and today’s announcement is
another milestone in deepening our commitment to India. Today we lay the
foundation for the next chapter in Cisco's development in India, and help
strengthen India’s global leadership position in digital transformation.’’
Jun Kim, Vice President, Cisco Supply Chain and
Manufacturing Operations said, “Cisco is committed to
being the strategic partner to India during this massive digital
transition. The manufacturing of our
diverse product portfolio will bring advance manufacturing capabilities to our
operations in India.”
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